Automation in the Newsroom
As automation makes significant gains in the newsroom, Celeste LeCompte explores how the Associated Press, ProPublica, The New York Times, and other news outlets are using stories written by algorithms to expand coverage of business and sports, engage audiences, and respond to breaking news. In the process, automation is raising new questions about what it means to encode news judgment in algorithms, how to customize stories to target specific audiences without making ethical missteps, and how to communicate these new efforts to audiences.
Spending hours sitting alone at a drawing table, cartoonist Jessica Abel often listens to public radio, a habit that turned her into a devotee. Abel calls radio “the most fertile ground for narrative nonfiction in English-language media.”
With a foreword by Ira Glass, her graphic novel “Out on the Wire: The Storytelling Secrets of the New Masters of Radio” takes readers behind the scenes of popular programs such as “This American Life” to uncover the techniques producers use to construct engaging stories.
In this excerpt, Adam Davidson (first panel) of “Planet Money” as well as Soren Wheeler (in plaid shirt) and Jad Abumrad, both of “Radiolab,” talk about what they grapple with as they try to turn a lofty idea into must-listen radio.
[sidebar style="full"]Reprinted from “Out on the Wire: The Storytelling Secrets of the New Masters of Radio” by Jessica Abel © 2015 by Jessica Abel. Published by Broadway Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.[/sidebar]
With a foreword by Ira Glass, her graphic novel “Out on the Wire: The Storytelling Secrets of the New Masters of Radio” takes readers behind the scenes of popular programs such as “This American Life” to uncover the techniques producers use to construct engaging stories.
In this excerpt, Adam Davidson (first panel) of “Planet Money” as well as Soren Wheeler (in plaid shirt) and Jad Abumrad, both of “Radiolab,” talk about what they grapple with as they try to turn a lofty idea into must-listen radio.
[sidebar style="full"]Reprinted from “Out on the Wire: The Storytelling Secrets of the New Masters of Radio” by Jessica Abel © 2015 by Jessica Abel. Published by Broadway Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.[/sidebar]
