Tag: News publishing | Presentation
Reuters puts a digital twin onscreen, driven by AI system
Reuters is combining results packaging and synthetic media to create an AI-generated sportscaster onscreen. The synthetic figure is produced by…
Machines wrote the BBC’s UK election results articles | TechHQ
‘The organization undertook its biggest test of machine learning-generated journalism to date, publishing nearly 700 individual news reports (649 in English, 40…
South China Morning Post uses AI to track reader loyalty | INMA
‘Identifying potential loyal readers is beneficial not only for maximising marketing budgets, but also creating personalised reader experiences.’ Reader engagement…
AP to grow Major League Soccer coverage with automated stories | AP
‘The automation technology enables the previews to be produced directly from data without the intervention of editors. AP reporters add…
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…
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…
Montag is a New Magazine Written Entirely by AI | BEEBOM
‘The contents for the articles are scraped from the internet using shell scripts and Python scripts. The scraped text then…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Q&A: Radar – can robots write the news? | WHAT’S NEW IN PUBLISHING
‘We have a team of five reporters, publishing 8,000-10,000 local stories each month.’ WNIP interviews Gary Rogers, Editor-in-Chief of RADAR,…
Artificial sincerity, too?
The AI anchors of Xinhua TV by Andrew Cochran May 4, 2019 last updated October, 2019 The idea of an…
UAE gets first Arabic speaking AI news anchor | KLALEEJ TIMES
Abu Dhabi Media will debut an AI anchor, marking a first in the Arab world and becoming the first technology…
Robot news presenter causes a stir on Russian TV | BBC NEWS
BBC News reports Russian television has unveiled “Alex’, a news reading robot that appears on its state-owned news channel, Rossiya…
Amazon Alexa now offers long-form news coverage in addition to Flash Briefings | TECHCRUNCH
46% of smart speaker owners ask for news and segment leader Amazon has begun offering US users enriched news briefings,…
Patch is using AI to write 3,000 articles a week | AdAge
Local news publisher Patch is automating weather reports, real estate sales, and other data-intensive stories, AdAge reports. Patch operates local…
Chinese state media’s latest news anchor is a female AI | QUARTZ
‘Xinhua says its robotic “new employees” have taken to their roles with enthusiasm, and since launching in November have published…
In five years, this headline will be written by AI | ARAB NEWS
‘Artificial intelligence in the newsroom reduces the cost of production, so the individual will not have to pay much for…
A new autoscribe and a new byline
THE GUARDIAN AUSTRALIA has published its first news story prepared by an automated system. The paper calls the AI-enabled tool…
Will artificial intelligence control the news? One Italian company hopes so | SBS
‘Imagine: No more editors deciding what to write about, looking at angles, assigning stories to journalists and driving wider conversation…
Robo-Journalism Is On the Rise But Half Of Aussies Prefer Human-Written Stories | B&T
‘A new survey conducted by Hotwire Australia has found that while 59 per cent of Australians think they have likely read…
AI Applications at New York Times, Reuters, and Other Media Giants | EMERJ
‘Artificial intelligence in news media is being used in new ways from speeding up research to accumulating and cross-referencing data…
China reveals world’s first AI anchor | SCMP
Runs :59 Text on video report by the South China Morning Post — the most comprehensive of the summaries prepared…
Putting Europe’s Robots on the Map: Automated journalism in news agencies | Fanta
Alexander Fanta looks at European news organizations using AI-enabled tools. His paper presents insights about current practices and opinions from…
The Future of Augmented Journalism: A guide for newsrooms in the age of smart machines | AP 2017
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HANDBOOK offers journalistic considerations for working with AI, based on real practices drawn from their early work…
RISE OF THE MACHINE: Journalists under threat as AI robot writes article in ONE SECOND | EXPRESS
‘Another industry is at risk of being replaced by robot workers after an artificially intelligent robot wrote an entire article…
Guide to automated journalism | TOW 2016
THE TOW CENTRE FOR DIGITAL JOURNALISM considers the landscape for automated journalism in 2016. Most of the concepts and implications…
Robots Are Invading the News Business, and It’s Great for Journalists NEW YORK MAGAZINE | July 2014
‘The stories that today’s robots can write are, frankly, the kinds of stories that humans hate writing anyway.’ Robots Are…
A leap forward in quarterly earnings stories | ASSOCIATED PRESS
‘The Associated Press announced in an advisory to customers today that the majority of U.S. corporate earnings stories for our…