Here’s how The Washington Post’s new computational journalism lab will tackle 2020

Hold onto your robots: The future of journalism is exceedingly computational. (At least part of it.) And the 2020 U.S. election is a great place to start. …

The engineering-heavy Washington Post newsroom has used bots, automation, and large-scale data in its reporting before, perhaps notably with its Heliograf tool to automatically write stories from data.

But now The Washington Post is going a step further, creating a computational political journalism lab — we’ll unpack what that term means in a sec — just in time for the 2020 political campaigns. CONT.

Christine Schmidt, Nieman Journalism Lab