Have AI screen council minutes for news value

Local newsrooms screen council minutes and press releases for news value

Needs setupAI Act: no extra obligationsMonitoring & alertingJournalism & publishing

Fits: Creative & media production

The local desk sees faster which decisions, council papers and press releases are worth a story. What used to get lost in a hundred pages of council information reaches the editorial meeting as a story idea with a reference.

Is this for you?

  • Your municipalities and districts publish agendas, council papers and minutes in a council information system or on their website.
  • The newsroom cannot manage to read all the documents itself.
  • An editor decides every day what to do with them.
First step today

Download public council minutes or a draft resolution from your municipality and use the template below to get story ideas with references. Compare them with what you actually reported on it.

How to go about it

  1. Decide what counts as a story for you
  2. Define municipalities, committees and senders
  3. Set up regular retrieval
  4. Extract topics and compare with earlier documents
  5. Story ideas to the local desk
  6. Refine after a few weeks

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JV-07 · Legal status 08.10.2026