Tag: Newsgathering
Generating Location-Based News Leads for National Politics Reporting | Diakopoulos et al
Leads for U.S. political coverage are surfaced by algorithms in another development from the emerging field of computational news discovery….
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…
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…
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…
The Rise of the Robot Reporter | NYT
‘As reporters and editors find themselves the victims of layoffs at digital publishers and traditional newspaper chains alike, journalism generated…
Journalism In The Age Of AI | DLD 2019
Runs 23:31 Talk by John Micklethwait, Editor-in-Chief of Bloomberg, at the Digital, Life, Design Conference in Munich. January 2019 |…
John Naughton: ‘no more “soft” coverage of artificial intelligence’ | THE GUARDIAN
‘This research reveals why so many people seem oblivious to, or complacent about, the challenges that AI technology poses to…
An Industry-Led Debate: How UK Media Cover Artificial Intelligence | 2018
While media should explore in detail the promise and pitfalls of AI, they would be well served to treat it…
The Electome: Where political journalism meets artificial intelligence | MIT MEDIA LAB
Runs 6:44 Report about using machine learning/neural network algorithms to analyze all comments on Twitter during the 2016 US election….