# Origin stories of AI in News Media and Journalism

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It might be worth tracking down this book by Whittaker and Jason and having a read.

	The  beginnings  of  automated  journalism  were  modest.  In  2007,  Robbie  Allen,  an  engineer  at  the networking  hardware  and  software  company  Cisco,  set  up  an  online  sports  network called  "Stat Sheet".  As  he  later  remarked  in  a  post  for  Automated  Insights,  Allen  started  the  company  to  keep track of –and publish –information on basketball teams(4). 

	4. Whittaker, Jason (2019). Tech Giants, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Journalism. Taylor & Francis, p10.

Some of the services being mentioned here might be worth tracking down for more detail.

	Automated  news introduced to  newsrooms  around 2010 in the  United States  by software companies Narrative Science and Automated Insights, their software already produces  hundreds of thousands  of texts  for  news  organizations,  including  respected  media  companies  such  as  Associated  Press  and Forbes,In  Europe,  automated  news  is  still  in  the  experimental  stage:  companies  in  Germany,  France and  United  Kingdom  are  offering  limited  services  to  a  few  media  customers,  mainly  news  on  the stock  market, weather forecasts  and football, In the  Nordic region, the Swedish  newspaper company "Mittmedia"is producing automated localized weather reports for each municipality in the circulation area and sports news is in the test stage(5).
	
	(5) Linden,Carl-Gustav (2017). Decades of Automation in the Newsroom: Why are there Still so Many Jobs in Journalism?, Digital journalism, 5(2), pp129-130.

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Integration or Replacement: Journalism in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Robot Journalism

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Reference: Saad Saad, D., & Issa, T. A. (2020). Integration or Replacement: Journalism in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Robot Journalism. International Journal of Media, Journalism and Mass Communications. 6(3).

The [relevant section is available here.](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Saad_Saad13/publication/343263293_International_Journal_of_Media_Journalism_and_Mass_Communications_IJMJMC_Page_1_Integration_or_Replacement_Journalism_in_the_Era_of_Artificial_Intelligence_and_Robot_Journalism/links/5f203ecd92851cd5fa4e48e1/International-Journal-of-Media-Journalism-and-Mass-Communications-IJMJMC-Page-1-Integration-or-Replacement-Journalism-in-the-Era-of-Artificial-Intelligence-and-Robot-Journalism.pdf)