3.8 Proceedings Paper

Crosstown Foundry: A Scalable Data-driven Journalism Platform for Hyper-local News

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ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY
DOI: 10.1145/3448016.3452751

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data mining; visualization; data-driven journalism; hyper-local news

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  1. USC Integrated Media Systems Center
  2. Google [na1-734df8c47312]

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Generating hyper-local news at scale is challenging due to lack of available data and automated tools. Crosstown Foundry is a novel data-driven system that leverages a massive multi-modal dataset to generate personalized newsletters for readers in Los Angeles County.
Generating hyper-local news at scale is challenging because publicly available data is not provided at the desired spatial and temporal granularity. Besides, there is a lack of automated analytical and publishing tools. Crosstown Foundry, which is being actively developed and used by engineers and journalists, is a novel data-driven system that leverages a massive multi-modal dataset to generate personalized newsletters for Los Angeles County readers.

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