In this webinar, you'll learn how to leverage AI tools like ChatGPT to efficiently summarize lengthy YouTube transcripts of public meetings, such as city council or school board sessions. We'll demonstrate how to create timestamped summaries that highlight key discussion points and decisions, providing valuable resources for journalists and the public. Additionally, we'll showcase examples from publishers already using these AI-generated summaries to enhance their coverage of local government meetings.

See examples from publishers that are using these summaries to supplement their coverage of city/county council and school board meetings.

Link to publicmeetings.org for examples.

Matt Larson is the president & CEO of Our-Hometown.com and has proudly served the newspaper industry for 12 years. His company provides a WordPress-based platform that has been customized for newspapers to help them monetize their content online. Their mission is to help community newspapers develop digital business models with tools for better storytelling and more efficient local news production. Larson leads a monthly virtual conference series, where he interviews newspaper publishers from all over the country on how they are utilizing digital to grow their audience.