. As newsrooms worldwide struggle to define the “human” element in an automated age, one Fortune editor has demonstrated how AI can actually help journalists increase the value of human-led reporting. By offloading aggregation to machines, journalists are freed to return to the field, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. Sometime in … Read more
. Objection, an AI startup, allows users to utilize artificial intelligence to assess journalism and challenge stories with unfair coverage, but critics warn that the platform could inadvertently silence whistleblowers. The startup’s founder, Aron D’Souza, thinks that the American media system is broken and those harmed by its coverage have very few means to fight … Read more
What is journalism for? What are its most pressing problems? What would a real journalist do when faced with an ethical dilemma? To find answers to these questions, I bought books, took courses, and read articles. Now, it’s time to see what visual storytelling can add to the mix, and how it can show us … Read more
The press no longer plays the role of a gatekeeper. It doesn’t decide what information the public should know and what it should not. “If the New York Times decides not to publish something, one of countless other websites, talk radio hosts, social media networks, blogs, or partisans will,” write Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel … Read more