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José Bayona wants to use AI to empower community media – and change how NYC talks to itself he’s betting on artificial intelligence to transform how ethnic and community media connect with advertisers — and ultimately, how New York City communicates with itself. ......... Mosaic Connect, a platform that utilizes artificial intelligence to match advertisers with the right community outlets in minutes rather than weeks. ......... “Communications in government is basically like journalism at the same pace, 24/7,” Bayona said. “You are on call all the time. You are dealing with media, with stories, with reporters, and all of that.” .......... In 2018, under Mayor Bill de Blasio, Bayona became director of community media at City Hall. At the time, the city was home to more than 350 community and ethnic media outlets. Bayona led efforts to create a vetted directory to help city agencies connect with these outlets. ........... “City agencies started asking, ‘How can I get to [community media outlets]?’” ........ matching advertisers with the right community outlets was slow and inefficient. ........ Advertisers and city staff struggled to allocate ad dollars across 350 outlets. ........ Bayona partnered with tech firms like Airtable and Singular Innovation to build Mosaic Connect, which he describes as an AI-driven marketplace for community media ads. ........... “The media outlets, they are going to register, subscribe to the platform, and they bring all the information [about the company] — circulation, rates, what communities they cover, what languages they cover, where they distribute, everything,” said Bayona. ......... Advertisers, in turn, log into the platform to target specific communities. ......... Ultimately, Mosaic Connect can generate a media plan in hours rather than days. “That process, I can tell you, it could take like half a day,” Bayona said. “The same process with a traditional advertising agency could take like a week.”

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