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

ABSTRACTGenerating 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.