The Post has an in-house robot reporter called Heliograf, which demonstrated its usefulness with its coverage of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games and the 2016 elections. “So we asked, ‘How can we scale our expertise?’”The A.P., The Post and Bloomberg have also set up internal alerts to signal anomalous bits of data. journalism is not as simple as a shiny robot banging out copy. Once the data is in — for a weather event, a baseball game or an earnings report — the system can create an article. At Bloomberg, reporters and editors try to prepare Cyborg so that it will not be spun by such tactics.

Source: New York Times February 05, 2019 08:00 UTC