More than 1,700 communities in the United States have lost their local newspaper since 2005. The decisions that affect people most—property taxes, school budgets, zoning, public safety—go unreported. Town News Now is an AI-powered local news platform that closes this gap at scale.
The platform continuously monitors public information channels for each town it covers—meeting recordings, municipal websites, agendas, and posted video from in-person and remote sessions. When new content surfaces, it goes to work automatically. A meeting recorded on Monday night can be a published news article by Tuesday morning, with no human intervention required.
Intelligent Coverage
Town News Now doesn't just summarize meetings—it understands them. The platform extracts a verified record of every meeting through multi-step authoring, editing, and verification, then writes context-aware journalism from that foundation. It actively tracks and identifies issues as they develop across boards and months, watches spending and tax changes through the approval process, and recognizes patterns in voting and public comment. Each town has its own persistent institutional memory, producing coverage that reads like it comes from a reporter who's been covering town hall for years.
Built to Scale
The platform scales across communities from a single shared infrastructure. Each town gets its own branded news website while every improvement benefits all towns simultaneously. A customizable notification system lets residents follow the boards and topics that matter to them, delivering relevant updates automatically.