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Under professional direction, student reporters are producing important state-government stories across the country.
“The detention of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in Russia on espionage charges marks an unusual throwback to the old Soviet tactics for handling foreign correspondents.”
I was Buzzy once.
“Local public radio has a staffing problem. Stations have considerable potential but aren’t yet in a position to make it happen.”
“Many nonprofits that pop up are [focused on] long-term investigative reporting … but we need the daily hard-hitting coverage to complement that.”
Since launching in June 2022, Solving Sacramento has published more than 80 stories on affordable housing and homelessness that are free to all the outlets in the collective to republish.
If we stay on the current trajectory, it’s utterly plausible that AI language tools will begin to blend into our daily workflows, similar to how Google and Google Translate have.
“I want to make AI more understandable and accessible to our readers, so it doesn’t feel like magic but merely a tool that they can wield.”
Staff at the nonprofit newsroom said news-gathering will look different in the local bureaus — “more democratic” and “community-driven.”