Local journalism is dying at an alarming rate, creating "news deserts" across the country. I wanted to see if we could lower the friction of grassroots reporting so that citizens could easily document what's happening on their own streets.

It started when I recognized an issue with neglected infrastructure—a broken bench at my local bus stop that hadn't been fixed for months. Instead of a boring feedback form to the city, I used a pipeline I built that takes a spoken report, transcribes it, and strict-casts it into a classic local newspaper format. The result was an article titled _"Bus Stop Neglect Sparks Concern: Residents Await Repairs for Months

How it works

It turns out people love using this to write pieces about their local area—from actual infrastructure issues to community events. The goal is to give normal people the tools to start filling the void left by dead local papers.

Would love to hear your feedback, roast my code/architecture, or read any funny articles you generate with it!