When journalism and automation intersect : assessing the influence of the technological field on contemporary newsrooms

• Main Authors: Wu, Shangyuan, Tandoc, Edson C., Salmon, Charles Thomas
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Social sciences::Journalism; Automation; Automated Journalism
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/151081
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this era of “big data”, where information circulates in unprecedented amounts, this paper examines the use of automation in newsrooms to manage the data deluge—not from the perspective of newsworkers, but from the technologists driving these digital innovations instead. These technologists, in th...