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Katherine Ann Rowlands

California
As seen in: Bay City News, LinkedIn, Medium, Reynolds Journalism Institute, Diablo Magazine, LION Publishers
I run BayCityNews.org + LocalNewsMatters.org + womendonews.org. Past Life: @JSKstanford @mercnews @EastBayTimes @SLOTribune @baycitynews

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Katherine Ann Rowlands has worked as a journalist for 30 years, covering news in the Bay Area, Central California and overseas. As a 2017 JSK Journalism Fellow at Stanford University, she focused her research on how to overcome gender disparities in newsrooms, especially in leadership positions, and to bolster local news coverage in the Bay Area.

In 2018, she acquired Bay City News, a local wire service covering the greater San Francisco Bay Area, and founded Bay City News Foundation, a nonpro…

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Election night mayhem with an AI twist

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By Katherine Ann Rowlands, Ciara Zavala
| Reynolds Journalism Institute
An automation and AI experiment for newsrooms Newsrooms on election night are always chaotic — and stressful — as journalists watch results trickle in from counties batch by batch. It takes a small army of people to capture those municipal and county results and update the tallies online so voters know who won and lost in real time.
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Can election season be less crazy?

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By Katherine Ann Rowlands
| Reynolds Journalism Institute
An automation and AI experiment in real time Newsrooms across the country have been facing a daunting task when it comes to election coverage. In an effort to inform readers about who and what is on the ballot — from the presidential race all the way down to state legislative contests and county or city council positions — journalists are wading through hundreds of names, office titles, descriptions of measures and propositions. And that’s just to provide previews of the ballots, county by county.
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Back Stories from Bay City News: Reporting in Stockton

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By Katherine Ann Rowlands
| Medium
Back Stories from Bay City News: Reporting in Stockton Who, what, when, where, why and how we report the news A partnership with Report for America has allowed Bay City News to do impactful community reporting in Stockton and San Joaquin County this year. Our 24/7 newsroom means we can keep tabs on breaking news throughout the Bay Area region as well as invest time and resources into deeper reporting and storytelling.
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