Automated Journalism: The new and improved way of journalism!

In the world we live in today technology changes and improves very quickly and even though many people may not easily adjust to these new changes are happening whether you like it or not. With these new changes and improvements the digital era has made its way to journalism which is what we call robot journalism. As aspiring journalist one would be afraid of these changes and how they will impact us in the future.

 

 

Media houses have found a new way of writing and publishing stories faster than before which is called automated journalism. Automated journalism is the use of algorithms which automatically converts data into stories without any human contact leaving you with the question, what will happen to human journalist since it seems like robots do a much better job than us.

Many news organisations are slowly starting to grasp the concept of automated journalism and it has created a certain amount of discomfort among journalist as they fear that they will lose their jobs to computers as the computers will be doing his or her work. However we shouldn’t just look at the downside of automated journalism as it does work in the favour of media houses because now they will be getting more news stories out there quicker and cheaper and with fewer errors in comparison to human journalist because human can slip up from time to time cause we are humans after all, automated journalism has arrived and is more likely to stay.

I believe we shouldn’t let the fear of change blind us from the positive outcomes that will come with this new technology, it has already been discover that it will be cheaper and lets all face it money will always be an issue on most things because at the end of the day it is a business and automated journalism will give out quality of stories which in essence is what we journalist aspiring want, to give the public good quality stories which are factual and accurate. What should also be kept in mind that robots can’t be humans they aren’t put in place to replace us but to lift the workload of journalist in order for them to focus on hard hitting stories other than the ‘’weather, stock market and sport results’’

”One irony of automation is that it is only as good as humans make it. That applies to both the main types of automated journalism. In the first, the computer will generate the story or headline by itself. But it needs humans to tell it what to look for, where to look for it and to guarantee its independence and transparency to our readers.”

Automated journalism is indeed the future of journalism and it isnt a bad thing because it can not replace humans although they will be doing some of the work journalist were taught and are use to doing, robots or a computer can’t match up to human journalism because people dont want to read bland stories that are just factual, people need human contact whether they are just reading and article or if they are being interviewed. In order for automated journalism to work it needs to work alongside actual human journalist.