Write up by Andrés Monroy-Hernández and Elena Agapie, building on the work of J. Nathan Matias Motivated by the disappearance of local newspapers, this past summer, we started to explore new ways of supporting community news production through collaborative writing tools. The first incarnation of this is NewsPad, a system for neighborhood communities to collaboratively to report on local events such as …

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