Ask the average journalist and they’ll tell you Facebook is for friends, but Twitter is for work. With its new Signal feature, Facebook hopes to change that. Facebook continued its aggressive courtship...Continue reading
Category: Journalism
NPR Pits Robot Reporter Against Journalist, When They Should Have Had Them Work Together
NPR’s Planet Money published a story today on the rise of automatically generated news stories, but unfortunately they didn’t push beyond the “oh, shiny tech” level of fluff. You can...Continue reading
Narrative Science raises $10 million, Fires its robot reporters
I’m breaking out the champagne tonight; that dystopian future where I get replaced by an algorithm has drawn one step further away. Narrative Science announced on Friday that they had raised...Continue reading
The AP is the Latest to Join the Robot Reporter Brigade
Twenty years ago the idea that robots would one day write the news we read everyday fell in the domain of SF writers and madmen, but today it is a...Continue reading
Longreads is Now Looking to Promote Longform News Articles by Students
When Longreads launched in late 2010 it had a simple goal. The team behind the site were determined to find and share links to the best longform journalism on the...Continue reading