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