Automation and algorithms have reached a point in their maturity where they can do real newswork-contributing to the journalistic endeavor in a variety of ways. The stories won’t be earning Pulitzer prizes any time soon, but they do convey the basics of corporate earnings in a straightforward and easily consumable form, and they do it at scale. That’s more than ten times the number of stories they wrote without automation, enabling a far greater breadth of coverage. By 2018 the AP was producing more than 3,700 stories this way during every earnings season, covering most US traded stocks down to a market capitalization of $75 million. Drawing on little more than structured data, the stories are short, under 200 words, but disseminated very quickly to the AP wire, where they can then be published by any of the more than 1,700 news organizations that constitute the cooperative.
Algorithmic Accountability Reporting 204 Conclusion: The Future of Algorithmic News Media Notes 255 Acknowl edgments 309 Index 311 240 A U T O M AT I N G T H E N E W S INTRODUCTION: THE ERA OF NEWS ALGORITHMS very fiscal quarter automated E writing algorithms dutifully churn out thousands of corporate earnings articles for the Associated Press (AP), a more than 170-year-old newswire service. Newsbots: Agents of Information 145 5. }igital Paperboys: Algorithms in News Distribution 177 6. Classification: LCC PN4784.T | DDC 070.4/3-dc23 LC record available at To teachers everywhere CONTENTS Introduction: The Era of News Algorithms 1 1. Hybridization: Combining Algorithms, Automation, and People in Newswork 13 2. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Journalism-Technological innovations. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Description: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019. Title: Automating the news : how algorithms are rewriting the media / Nicholas Diakopoulos. Algorithmic Accountability Reporting Conclusion: The Futureof Algorithmic News Media Notes Acknowledgments Index Citation previewĪ U T O M AT I N G T H E N E W S A U T O M AT I N G T H E N E W S HOW ALGORITHMS ARE REWRITING THE MEDIA Nicholas Diakopoulos Cambridge, Massachusetts & London, England 2019 Copyright © 2019 by the Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First printing Jacket art: Mehau Kulyk/Science Photo Library © Getty Images Jacket design: Annamarie McMahon Why 9780674239319 (EPUB) 9780674239326 (MOBI) 9780674239302 (PDF) The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows: Names: Diakopoulos, Nicholas, author. Digital Paperboys: Algorithms in News Distribution 6. Hybridization: Combining Algorithms, Automation, and Peoplein Newswork 2. Table of contents : Dedication Contents Introduction: The Era of News Algorithms 1.
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