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Articles tagged machine learning (18)

Andrew DeckMay 9, 2024

For the first time, two Pulitzer winners disclosed using AI in their reporting

Awarded investigative stories are increasingly relying on machine learning, whether covering Chicago police negligence or Israeli weapons in Gaza

Joshua BentonNovember 7, 2019

This text-generation algorithm is supposedly so good it’s frightening. Judge for yourself.

If you’ve ever wondered what “Nieman Lab written by robots” would look like, this is the piece for you.

Christine SchmidtJuly 8, 2019

Can a squat wooden disk lead to better civic conversations and smarter journalism? Cortico has $10 million to try it out

“The source of power is the people in the community volunteering to foster these sorts of conversations and have them be accessed by trusted local media partners.”

Laura Hazard OwenMay 14, 2019

U.S. journalism really has become more subjective and personal — at least some of it

A deep linguistic analysis finds that newspapers today are a lot like newspapers 30 years ago. But TV news — especially cable news — has ramped up the emotion, the conversationality, and the arguing.

Laura Hazard OwenJune 6, 2018

All the news that’s fit for you: The New York Times’ “Your Weekly Edition” is a brand-new newsletter personalized for each recipient

“Say you read a lot about cooking, and someone similar to you has also read a lot about cooking, but also read a Saturday profile from International about a chef in Italy. We may surface that story in your queue in your newsletter.”

Christine SchmidtMarch 19, 2018

How digital leaders from the BBC and Al Jazeera are planning for the ethics of AI

“We have to remember, as media, we are gatekeepers to people’s understanding of the modern world.”

Shan WangFebruary 22, 2018

After years of testing, The Wall Street Journal has built a paywall that bends to the individual reader

Non-subscribers visiting WSJ.com now get a score, based on dozens of signals, that indicates how likely they’ll be to subscribe. The paywall tightens or loosens accordingly: “The content you see is the output of the paywall, rather than an input.”

Liam CorcoranFebruary 12, 2018

Not all news site visitors are created equal. Schibsted is trying to predict the ones who will pay up

Across the sites where it’s currently in use, the company’s purchase prediction model has been able to identify groups of readers three to five times more likely than average to buy a subscription, and advertise offers to them differently.

Christine SchmidtNovember 7, 2017

This project aims to “de-flatten” digital publishing by matching the best content with premium ads

“The digital publishing system has the big inconvenience of flattening everything.”

Trushar BarotSeptember 18, 2017

The future of news is humans talking to machines

That’s the argument of the BBC’s Trushar Barot, who believes voice AI is the biggest technology revolution that the news industry is missing — and that it’s not too late to do something about it.

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