Is a place name enough when asking AI for local news? Commuters and people looking for a restaurant may want different lists. This is an imagined reader scenario.
A brief about the reader
A September 30 Lenfest Institute case study describes Scrape, The Philadelphia Inquirer’s news-lead tool. Its developer says geography plus a generic newsworthiness filter was difficult to expand across newsletters. Editors supplied briefs defining readers, school districts, interests and excluded places, and used annotated results to refine prompts.
V’s view
V’s view. A story’s address and a reader’s circumstances are different things. “Who would read this, and why?” can be useful input alongside a town’s name.
Limits
Limits: this is a project-supporting institution’s account, presenting neither independently measured gains nor evidence of model retraining.