Automating the News (Robert Wright & Nicholas Diakopoulos)

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News & Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Nick's new book, Automating the News ... Why Nick is not an alarmist about the automation of journalism ... The types of journalism jobs that algorithms can't replace ... Successful collaborations between human journalists and machines ... The perils of algorithmic fact-checking ... Nick's current research ... Bob hopes for a bot that can assign blame for international law violations ... Can the power of Twitter bots be used for good? ...

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast from Meaning of Life TV.
0:08.6	Hi, Nick.
0:10.0	Hi, Bob.
0:11.0	How are you?
0:11.8	I'm doing great today.
0:13.2	How are you?
0:13.9	I am not complaining at all.
0:15.6	Let me introduce us.
0:16.3	I'm Robert Wright.
0:16.9	This is the right show available on both streaming video and via audio podcast. You are
0:22.4	Nicholas Diacopoulos. Is that the correct pronunciation? That is perfect in fact. Amazing.
0:29.6	And you are among other things, the author of the book we're going to talk about, automating the news,
0:34.8	how algorithms are rewriting the media.
0:45.6	You also teach at Northwestern, where you run a lab called the computational journalism lab.
0:49.3	And you're also affiliated with Columbia Journalism School, right?
0:51.2	That's right. Yes, I am.
0:58.4	So your book is about how computers are influencing journalism in a number of ways. On the one hand, kind of on the production side, actually, you know, how
1:04.6	they're involved in content creation. And sometimes their involvement rises to the level of
1:10.2	artificial intelligence.
1:11.6	It's fair to say.
1:13.3	And sometimes may pose questions to journalists about their future employability.
1:20.7	Maybe you can address some of those questions.
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