‘Artificial intelligence in news media is being used in new ways from speeding up research to accumulating and cross-referencing data and beyond.’
Emerj surveys how AI systems are being used in big newsrooms and they are supporting journalists rather than displacing jobs.
Example activities they found:
- Streamlining media workflows
- Automating mundane tasks
- Crunching more data
- Digging out media insights
- Eliminating fake news
- Generating outputs
Automated Journalism: A.I. Applications at New York Times, Reuters, and Other Media Giants
EMERJ | November 2018 | by Corinna Underwood