3 Laws for Journalists in a Data-Saturated World
At the Cyberspace Conference in London in November, Igor Shchegolev, the Russian minister of communications and mass media, referred to sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics: 1. A robot...
View ArticleInstant Fact-Checking? Washington Post’s Truth Teller Goes There
The Washington Post is creating an algorithm to augment its fact checking of political speeches. How might it work? And do we want it to? During the Republican primaries in 2011, Steven Ginsberg,...
View ArticleMediatwits #114: Will Robots Take Over Simple Tasks for Journalists?
This week, when a 4.4-magnitude earthquake hit L.A., the L.A. Times’ Ken Schwencke was the first to break the story. But, the actual author of the post wasn’t Schwencke — it was Quakebot, an algorithm...
View ArticleNicholas Carr’s ‘Glass Cage’: Automation Will Hurt Society in Long Run
Writer Nicholas Carr has earned his reputation as one of the premier contemporary critics of technological utopianism through articles such as “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” which he published in The...
View ArticleFutures Lab Update #123: Top Trends and Ideas From ONA15
This week we bring you key takeaways and an overview of emerging digital trends from the 16th annual Online News Association conference, held Sept. 24-26 at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los...
View ArticleThe Story Behind AJ+ Español’s Most Popular Video
This post originally appeared on the Storyhunter blog. When Esteban Quispe checked his Facebook on a hot summer evening in his small village in the Andean high plains of Bolivia, he couldn’t believe...
View ArticleMeet the Bots Reporting on the Republican and Democratic Conventions
This year at the Republican and Democratic national conventions, there are new reporters on the ground. Yes, surely, there are new human journalists (including the ones I’m leading from the University...
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