John Wihbey is assistant director for Journalist’s Resource at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. He is also a lecturer in journalism at Boston University. He has reported for the Star-Ledger in New Jersey and worked at WBUR-Boston, where he was a producer and digital editor for the NPR show “On Point with Tom Ashbrook.”
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Wihbey, John. "What’s New in Digital and Social Media Research: What happens when robot journalists produce stories that are “good enough”." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 3 Mar. 2014. Web. 17 Apr. 2024.
APA
Wihbey, J. (2014, Mar. 3). What’s New in Digital and Social Media Research: What happens when robot journalists produce stories that are “good enough”. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved April 17, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2014/03/whats-new-in-digital-and-social-media-research-what-happens-when-robot-journalists-produce-stories-that-are-good-enough/
Chicago
Wihbey, John. "What’s New in Digital and Social Media Research: What happens when robot journalists produce stories that are “good enough”." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified March 3, 2014. Accessed April 17, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2014/03/whats-new-in-digital-and-social-media-research-what-happens-when-robot-journalists-produce-stories-that-are-good-enough/.
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