
Summer 2015
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.
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Niemans@Work
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Margie Mason, NF ’09, collaborated with AP colleagues to report stories that helped free enslaved fishermen in Southeast Asia
By Margie Mason
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With his new virtual-reality project, Karim Ben Khelifa, NF ’13, fosters empathy
By Karim Ben Khelifa
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NPR correspondent Frank Langfitt, NF ’03, finds his best stories behind the wheel of a free cab he drives in Shanghai
By Frank Langfitt
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