Can AI help local journalists cover 169 towns? CT Mirror is working to find out
There’s no such thing as a typical day for Angela Eichhorst.
The Connecticut Mirror’s new artificial intelligence data reporter and product developer is trying to figure out how to tell stories that were previously impossible because of the volume of documents or deadline pressure.
In Connecticut, where news is often made in municipal meetings, the nonprofit’s beat reporters can’t make it to all 169 different towns, Eichhorst said. One of her goals is to generate leads and get material from those meetings to reporters using AI tools.
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