Try the AI

A first desk from four questions

What your community needs covered, who already writes things down, what goes wrong, and how often people could read.

If AI is unavailable, a plain starter desk is offered.

Idea
  • Who has the 2019 budget? Callout open
  • The youth programme's new hall Open on the desk
Working
  • The building fund: where the money went Handed out by name
  • Water district: the rate rise Overdue beat
Out
  • New members this quarter In Thursday's edition
How it works

You answer, it proposes, you decide

Answer four questions

Plus a few details about your community.

Read the proposal

Beats with a cadence, starter assignments and one starter Callout.

Open the desk

Keep what fits, name your Editors, and open the Desk.

In the draft

Desk records you can change

AI writes no story here, at setup or later.

Beats

What your community needs covered, each with a cadence.

Starter assignments

Each with an angle, who to call and what to request.

An edition day

How often your community reads, and on which day.

One starter Callout

A first question, so members see how the Newsroom works.

"What many people call tribalism is not inevitable; rather, it's a function of group norms."
Packer and Van Bavel, The Atlantic

Hand out your first assignment this week

Give one member one story to find out.

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