Robot Journalism

The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Robot Journalism

Greg Watry | January 21, 2016

Much attention at the 2016 World Economic Forum has been focused on the Fourth Industrial Revolution. With the proliferation of advanced robotics, autonomous transport, artificial intelligence, machine learning and advances in biotechnology and advanced materials, the skills needed to be an integral member of the workforce will change. Jobs will change. Some will be lost, some will grow, and others will be entirely new.
And in this brave new world, the journalism field will change too.

Ethics of robot journalism: How Automated Insights poses issues for data collection and writing. Source: https://ethics.journalism.wisc.edu/2015/10/20/ethics-of-robot-journalism-how-automatedinsights-poses-issues-for-data-collection-and-writing/

<more at http://www.rdmag.com/news/2016/01/fourth-industrial-revolution-and-robot-journalism; related links: http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/listeningpost/2015/11/robot-journalism-human-reporters-151115095033120.html (Robot journalism: The end of human reporters? We explore the rise of automated journalism and its implications for news reporting. November 15, 2015) and https://ethics.journalism.wisc.edu/2015/10/20/ethics-of-robot-journalism-how-automatedinsights-poses-issues-for-data-collection-and-writing/ (Ethics of robot journalism: How Automated Insights poses issues for data collection and writing. October 20, 2015)>