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Facebook Signal Helps Journalists Sift Through Trending News on Facebook

18 September, 201512 May, 2017Journalism, Web Publishing2 Comments

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....

Reuters Goes Freemium With New Online Syndication Offer

10 June, 201512 June, 2017Bot, Journalism, Web PublishingLeave a comment

Over the past 160 years Reuters has built a business syndicating content to newspapers and magazines. They’ve adapted with the times to offer content online, and on...

NPR Pits Robot Reporter Against Journalist, When They Should Have Had Them Work Together

20 May, 201520 May, 2015Bot, Journalism, Writing3 Comments

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...

Narrative Science raises $10 million, Fires its robot reporters

30 November, 201411 May, 2017Bot, Journalism, WritingLeave a comment

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...

The AP is the Latest to Join the Robot Reporter Brigade

30 June, 201412 June, 2017Bot, Journalism, Writing12 Comments

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...

Longreads is Now Looking to Promote Longform News Articles by Students

19 May, 201319 May, 2013Journalism, PublishingLeave a comment

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...