One iteration of this workflow that may prove useful to student journalists involves synthesizing content from a long event, meeting, speech or document that journalists may not have the time to parse through themselves. Engaging AI tools to automate rigorous manual synthesis then allows journalists to spend more time on in-depth, meaningful reporting.

We experimented with this practice in our articles on Evanston politics and education, like **city council meetings** and school board meetings in early May 2024.

Creating Source Material To Feed Generative AI Tools

Producing Drafts

Reflections and Edits

Final Draft

Visualization