Tag: News preparation | Editing
Microsoft News replacing journalists with algorithms
Microsoft News is upping its use of algorithms for certain editorial functions, handing out lay-off notices to contract journalists in…
To Free Themselves From Lies, Journalists are Using New Tools and Techniques to Check Facts | EDITOR & PUBLISHER
‘Today, reporters, as well as editors and the production staff, now must work faster than ever but getting the story…
Actually, it’s about Ethics, AI, and Journalism: Reporting on and with Computation and Data | TOW REPORTS
‘…journalists need to continue to develop their technical skills to become better tool makers rather than tool users. It is…
What should newsrooms do about deepfakes? These three things, for starters | NEIMAN LAB
‘Whether or not opinion columnists’ direst predictions come to fruition, it seems almost inevitable that newsrooms operating in a world…
Researchers identify seven types of fake news, aiding better detection | PHYS ORG
‘False news tends to be less grammatical and less factual, with greater reliance on emotionally charged claims, misleading headlines and…
AI Coverage Best Practices, According to AI Researchers | SKYNET TODAY
‘…we are both invested and sensitive to how AI is portrayed in the media. In this article, we suggest a…
AI-powered journalism: A time-saver or an accident waiting to happen? | JOURNALISM.CO.UK
‘automated journalism is only as reliable as the information that has been plugged into it to during its development and…
An ethical checklist for robot journalism
by Tom Kent Feb 24, 2015 Updated October 2019 It’s routine now for news organizations to use artificial intelligence…
How the Wall Street Journal is using deep learning to inform content strategy | MEDIUM
‘While traditional analytics dashboards give newsrooms insights about recent performance, this project strengthens the “long-term memory of the newsroom”…. Editors…
Robots in the newsroom: The good, the bad and the (un)ethical | SOURCEFABRIC
‘It’s a neutral piece of technology that can be adapted for almost anything.’ Thomas Kent Thomas Kent is a pioneer…
Predictive AI helps Foxtel drive double-digit growth: Insights for publishers | WNIP
Predicting when a cricket wicket would drop five minutes before it happened helped Foxtel reinvent live sports coverage in Australia….
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…
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…
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…
Automation of News & Journalism | MACHINES + MEDIA 2019
Runs 15:16 A panel session at the Machines and Media 2019 conference in New York. Moderated by Chris Collins, Senior…
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.’ …
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…
Bad news, journalists: Robots are writing really good headlines now | TNW
‘Primer, an AI company, recently built a tool capable of writing headlines that look like those a human would produce.‘…
Facial recognition, subtitling automation and datasets: how Sky News uses AI to unburden journalists | JOURNALISM.CO.UK
‘…automated tools are more commonplace than we might think and they can make a massive difference to a journalist’s workflow’…
Drowning in Research Reading? AI Could Help | INSIDE HIGHER ED
‘(It) could potentially be used by journalists to help communicate complex research to the public, though the authors say they…
These fact-checkers won $2 million to implement AI in their newsrooms | POYNTER
‘The Google.org grant is among the largest single payouts for using AI to improve fact-checking — a sign that foundations…
RADAR signs its first paying subscribers for stories jointly written by journalists and AI | PRESS ASSOCIATION
‘The UK news service pioneering the use of artificial intelligence to help journalists scale up the production of local news…
Newsroom technology and the future of journalism | IJF 2019
Runs 47:50 A talk by Chris Collins, senior executive editor, breaking news, for Bloomberg, about uses and influences of AI…
What happens when bots become editors? | JOURNALISM.CO.UK
‘Our strategy today is to build loyalty; we’re not interested in anonymous clicks and traffic. We use data points to…
Stories by numbers: How BBC News is experimenting with semi-automated journalism | BBC NEWS LABS
BBC NEWS LABS pointedly refers to its data-driven news system as ‘semi-automated journalism,’ presumably because it keeps human journalists in…
The Bright Future of News Automation | Linden
Carl-Gustav Linden says images of robots at keyboards don’t depict the real story of automated journalism. Current developments are simply…
Forbes is building more AI tools for its reporters | DIGIDAY
‘Forbes is investing in tools to make its newsroom more bionic.’ DIGIDAY reports that Forbes is rolling out its autoCMS…
Forbes is building more AI tools for its reporters | DIGIDAY UK
‘Forbes is investing in tools to make its newsroom more bionic.’ A new CMS called Bertie is making suggestions for…
A Look at Toutiao: China’s Artificial Intelligence News Platform | MEDIUM
‘Translated as ‘headline’, Toutiao is the core product of Beijing ByteDance Technology Co with an average 120 million daily user.’ 1.3…