Category: AI in the newsroom
AI: time to crack on | IN PUBLISHING
‘…the danger is that once again, journalism will be left chasing after the change instead of meeting the challenge.’ AI…
Quartz will use crowds and machines for ‘open investigations’
‘This is an open investigation, and we need your help monitoring the campaigns, companies, governments, and other actors involved’ Kevin…
Thailand’s first AI journalist named ‘Suthichai AI’ unveiled | THAI PBS
‘Suthichai AI said that AI will revolutionize information by presenting news and analyzing it faster, with accuracy and in a…
AI Takes Center Court at U.S. Open | WALL STREET JOURNAL
‘Watson has been trained to recognize acoustic inputs—the cheers of a crowd, the sound of sneakers on a court, the…
BBC develops its own voice AI
BBC will use its own voice assistant on BBC platforms, including its website and BBC iPlayer, and make it available…
AI Making Waves In News And Journalism | FORBES
‘news organizations are increasingly leveraging AI to change the way news is generated, produced, published, and shared’ Ron Schmelzer, a…
Már Másson Maack: I’m scared shitless of my new robot colleague | TNW
‘Am I meant to compete with a bot now? Satoshi doesn’t need to sleep, feel inspired, or even have a…
Chinese newspaper has robot writer of science news | XINHUA
‘According to investors, more international journals, as well as conference and patent information, will be covered by the automated systems…
How the Canadian Press is Using Bots to Build The Future of Election Coverage | J-SOURCE
Canadian journalists covering the coming federal election will have background data on command with a new automated system by the…
TV anchor Vikram Chandra bets on AI-powered short videos to fix India’s broken news scene | QUARTZ
AI is helping a news app compete in the crowded India marketplace, according to this QUARTZ piece. Editor Ji offers…
How Quartz used AI to help reporters search the Mauritius Leaks | QUARTZ
‘AI aided the investigation by applying a journalist’s human judgment identifying a particular kind of document—like a tax return or…
The Journalism AI global survey: what we’ve learned so far | POLIS
‘something fundamental is changing, because of the unprecedented possibilities offered by AI-powered technologies. Something so big that it requires new…
Six digital skills all new journalists should consider learning and a road map to unlocking them | STORYBENCH
‘From fluency in social media and audience engagement to introductory data science, these are the skills that have been consistently…
How AI could shape the future of journalism | GOOGLE NEWS INITIATIVE
‘New technological challenges and opportunities are encouraging a reflection about the deeper meaning and mission of journalism, as well as…
Making Artificial Intelligence Work for Investigative Journalism | Stray
‘AI has barely touched investigative journalism, let alone transformed it.’ Benefits of AI in investigative journalism should be weighed against…
Rise of the robots: Coming to a first-year Intro to Journalism class near you | PHYS ORG
‘the Media & Society class is designed to provide a working definition of AI, a brief history of its evolution,…
Russian AI anchor joins the Sogou line-up
A Chinese-made news anchor called Lisa is ready to go to work for Russia. The Russian-speaking AI-enabled character was developed…
Digital News Report 2019 | REUTERS INSTITUTE
Runs 3:01 A text-on-video highlight package for the 2019 edition of the annual Digital News Report from the Reuters Institute….
How Computation is Changing Journalism | CACM
‘In the hybridization of workflows, more often than not AI technologies actually create new types of work related to things…
Krishna Bharat: Impact of AI on journalism and democracy | GEN SUMMIT 2019
Runs 29:34 Keynote talk by Google news founder Krishna Bharat at the 2019 Global Editors Summit. Bharat says journalism is…
Keynote session with John Micklethwait, Editor-in-Chief, Bloomberg | GEN SUMMIT 2019
Runs 32:19 Talk by John Micklethwait, Editor-in-Chief of Bloomberg, at the 2019 Global Editors Summit in Athens. He sees AI…
Automation in the Newsroom: Productivity, Production and Personalisation | GEN SUMMIT 2019
Runs 41:07 A panel discussion at the GEN SUMMIT 2019 about automated systems used in three newsrooms. Moderated by Trint…
Top AI researchers race to detect ‘deepfake’ videos: ‘We are outgunned’ | THE WASHINGTON POST
The ability to create synthetic videos outweighs detection methods by ‘100 to 1’, according to a digital forensics professor at…
Artificial intelligence-enhanced journalism offers a glimpse of the future of the knowledge economy | THE CONVERSATION
‘The journalists of tomorrow will need to be trained to design, update, tweak, validate, correct, supervise and generally maintain these…
Robo-reporter writes front-page news | FINANCIAL TIMES
Calling it ‘the UK’s most prolific reporter’, the FINANCIAL TIMES describes how AI-powered RADAR delivers human interest and local headline…
Good human reporting together with clever automation”: Using AI to revive local news | WHAT’S NEW IN PUBLISHING
‘…these are the types of stories that may never have even been unearthed, let alone told, had the AI not…
Jeff Kofman on how AI can empower newsrooms | GLOBAL EDITORS NETWORK
‘I think it allows newsrooms to do things that it couldn’t otherwise do, or that it wasn’t interested in doing.’ …
Six lessons from my deepfakes research at Stanford | MEDIUM
10,000 deepfakes may be circulating online, as ‘synthetic media’ keeps getting easier to make and harder to detect. Writing in…
The Times employs an AI-powered ‘digital butler’ JAMES to serve personalised news | JOURNALISM.CO.UK
‘…the number of subscription cancellations (churn) was reduced by 49 per cent. This was particularly efficient with low- or medium-engagement…
The bots among us: Artificial intelligence and automation are hard at work in the media business | DIGITAL CONTENT NEXT
‘News media professionals worry about human obsolescence in the face of such quickly accelerating automation. Yet many believe those concerns…