The robots are coming: first sports, now business stories written by machines
Associated Press plans to use automation technology from a company called Automated Insights to produce stories about earnings reports. … Read the full post »
Here are my posts about the state of journalism and how it is carried out, mainly focusing on the UK but with the occasional piece about other countries too.
For more on the topic, see my book Bad News: what the headlines don’t tell us.
Associated Press plans to use automation technology from a company called Automated Insights to produce stories about earnings reports. … Read the full post »
The problem with that lies with the inevitable over-emphasis on what foreign journalists often call the ‘kinetic stuff’. … Read the full post »
There’s lots of coverage in the news today about how much fraud there is the NHS, complete with Labour calling it a “scandal”. … Read the full post »
Poster boy for statistical predictors, Nate Silver, has a new piece out explaining his vision for the future of journalism. … Read the full post »
“What I love about twitter, I have more followers that newspapers have readers. I can expose publicly the nasty tricks they get up to.” – Alan Sugar … Read the full post »
Many British journalists are so keen to have a good story to run, they are easily bought off and distracted by government spin doctors… … Read the full post »
Via Benedict Evans comes this example of a drone being used to film riots in Bangkok. … Read the full post »
When writing about spin doctors smearing political opponents in the media, remember that your colleagues who ran the stories bear no responsibility. … Read the full post »
With Liberal Democrat conference in Glasgow, it is understandable that journalists are breaking out the hung Parliament speculation file. … Read the full post »
You are hallucinating this morning if you think you’ve seen or heard the news that the Royal baby is a boy. … Read the full post »