Journalism

Facebook Signal Helps Journalists Sift Through Trending News on Facebook

18 September, 2015 // 2 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. Facebook continued its aggressive [Read More ...]

Reuters Goes Freemium With New Online Syndication Offer

10 June, 2015 // 0 Comments

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 Tuesday this organization [Read More ...]

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

20 May, 2015 // 3 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 of fluff. You can listen to the [Read More ...]

Narrative Science raises $10 million, Fires its robot reporters

30 November, 2014 // 0 Comments

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 another [Read More ...]

The AP is the Latest to Join the Robot Reporter Brigade

30 June, 2014 // 12 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 today it is a simple fact. Following in the footsteps of many [Read More ...]

Longreads is Now Looking to Promote Longform News Articles by Students

19 May, 2013 // 0 Comments

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 web, and now they are turning their [Read More ...]