This list of readings about journalism and AI is based on research for the Polis report on AI and journalism published in November 2019. You can download the report here.
We will update this list and welcome suggestions for further readings to: c.h.beckett@lse.ac.uk
Books
Automating the News: how Algorithms are Rewriting the Media
By Nick Diakopoulos, Harvard University Press, Jun 2019
Newsmakers: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Journalism
By Francesco Marconi, Columbia University Press, forthcoming Spring 2020
Reports
An Industry-Led Debate: How UK Media Cover Artificial Intelligence
By Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, December 2018
Understanding the Promise and Limits of Automated Fact-Checking
By Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, February 2018
Artificial Intelligence: Practice and Implications for Journalism
By Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia University, September 2017
The Future of Augmented Journalism: A guide for newsrooms in the age of smart machines
By F. Marconi & A. Siegman, Associated Press, April 2017
By Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia University, January 2016
Articles
Journalism and AI
What is machine learning and why should I care?
By Nicholas Diakopoulos, CJR, 25-Apr-2019
AI is going to save journalism – here’s how
By Knowledge @Wharton, World Economic Forum, 23-Apr-2019
ISOJ panelists discuss the importance and challenges of integrating AI with journalism
By Sunny Kim, Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, 16-Apr-2019
A Crash Course for Journalists In Classifying Text with Machine Learning
By Jeremy B. Merrill, Quartz, 11-Apr-2019
How to make your newsroom AI-ready
By Tom Van de Weghe, JSK Stanford Fellow, 14-Mar-2019
Reporting with sensors in human spaces
By Jakob Vicari, Journalism of Things, 4-Mar-2019
Is AI and journalism a good mix?
By Phil Siarri, Medium, 6-Jan-2019
10 things about AI every newsroom should know
By Tom Van de Weghe, Medium, 7-Dec-2018
By Nicholas Diakopoulos, Columbia Journalism Review, 28-Nov-2018
How artificial intelligence is transforming journalism
By María Crespo, Equal Times, 27-Nov-2018
Why We Are in Danger of Overestimating AI
By Richard Waters, Financial Times, 30-Oct-2018
By Jarno Koponen, TechCrunch, June 2018
The cybernetic newsroom: horses and cars
By Reginald Chua, Reuters, 12-Mar-2018
Journalism and artificial intelligence: some notes
By Charlie Beckett, Polis, LSE, 1-Mar-2018
Exploring machine learning in newsrooms
By Sebastian Auyanet & Melissa DiPento, Tow Center, 9-Jan-2018
AI is the new horizon for news
By Bertrand Pecquerie, 5-Jan-2018
We Get Serious About Algorithms
By Tamar Charney, NPR, 2018 Nieman Lab Predictions
By Rubina Madan Fillion, 2018 Nieman Lab Predictions
A day in the life of a journalist in 2027: Reporting meets AI
By Francesco Marconi and Alex Siegman, Columbia Journalism Review, 11-Apr-2017
Content personalisation
SmartNews: an AI news app for personalized discovery
By Nanalize, Nanalize.com, 7-Aug-2019
Get ready for a new era of personalized entertainment
By Jarno Koponen, TechCrunch, 13-Apr-2019
By Jarno Koponen, YLE News Lab, 10-Oct-2018
Breaking down China’s most popular news app, Toutiao
By Xinmei Chen, Abacus, 2-Oct-2018
By Laura Hazard Owen, Nieman Lab, 21-Sep-2017
Robot Journalism
The magazine that writes itself
By Katryn Lawrence, Medium, 12-Jun-2019
Robo-reporter writes front page news
By Patricia Nilsson, Financial Times, 4-Jun-2019
AI learns to write headlines (but not this one)
By Kaveh Waddell, Axios, 17-May-2019
Can science writing be automated?
By David L. Chandler | MIT News, 17-Apr-2019
The Dawn of the Cyborg Journalist
By Thomas McMullan, 17-Apr-2019
PA’s ‘robot-written’ story service gets first paying subscribers after trial ends
By Charlotte Tobitt, PressGazette, 9-Apr-2019
Stories by numbers: How BBC News is experimenting with semi-automated journalism
By Roo Hutton, BBC News Labs, 22-Mar-2019
An AI helped us write this article
By Kelsey Piper, Vox, 14-Feb-2019
Will robot journalism replace human journalists?
By Evelyn Mateos, Editor & Publisher, 14-Feb-2019
The Rise of the Robot Reporter
By Jaclyn Peiser, The New York Times, 5-Feb-2019
Why I created a robot to write news stories
By Nick Evershed, Guardian Australia, 1-Feb-2019
Automated Sports News: The Good, the Bad and the Unlikely
By Connor Bean, Bournemouth University, 30-Dec-2018
Three Swedish local media groups go all in on robot journalism
By United Robots, 20-Dec-2018
How Reuters uses robots to analyse data and humans to tell the stories
Jacob Granger, Journalism.co.uk 12-Nov-2018
Automated Journalism – AI Applications at New York Times, Reuters, and Other Media Giants
By Corinna Underwood, TechEmergence, 17-Jan-2018
Can you tell if this was written by a robot? 7 challenges for AI in journalism
By Stefan Hall, World Economic Forum, 15-Jan-2018
Washington Post to Cover Every Major Race on Election Day With Help of Artificial Intelligence
By Lukas I. Alpert, The Wall Street Journal, 19-Oct-2016
AI in investigative journalism
How Quartz used AI to help reporters search the Mauritius Leaks
By Jeremy B. Merrill, Quartz, 23-Jul-2019
We cracked the Panama Papers with 400 human brains. Can AI help us next time?
By Marina Walker Guevara, ICIJ & JSK Stanford Fellow, 19-Mar-2019
By Texty.org.ua, Texty, 24-Mar-2018
AI against disinformation
This AI tool is smart enough to spot AI-generated articles and tweets
By Ravie Lakshmanan, The Next Web, 29-Jul-2019
Counteracting neural disinformation with Grover
By Rowan Zellers, Medium, 18-Jun-2019
Making a ‘deep fake’: How creating our own synthetic video helped us learn to spot one
By Hazel Baker, Reuters, 11-Mar-2019
Fighting the Reality of DeepFakes
By Rubina Madan Fillion, The Intercept, 2019 Nieman Lab Predictions
Other use cases
By Christine Schmidt, Nieman Lab, 25-Jul-2019
IBM’s Wimbledon-watching A.I. is poised to revolutionize sports broadcasts
By Luke Dormehl, Digital Trends, 18-Jul-2019
Facial recognition, subtitling automation and datasets: how Sky News uses AI to unburden journalists
By Jacob Granger, Journalism.co.uk, 14-May-2019
Springer Nature publishes its first machine-generated book
Springer Nature Blog press release, 2-Apr-2019
Forbes is building more AI tools for its reporters
By Max Willens, DigiDay UK, 3-Jan-2019
Announcing the Quartz AI Studio, designed to help journalists use machine learning
By John Keefe, Quartz, 20-Nov-2018
How The New York Times Uses Software To Recognize Members of Congress
By Jeremy Bowers, The New York Times, 6-Jun-2018
New York Times: Using AI to host better conversations
By CJ Adams, The Keyword, Google blog, 23-May-2018
Reuters’ new automation tool wants to help reporters spot the hidden stories in their data
By Ricardo Bilton, Nieman Lab, 12-Mar-2018
Hear the one about the robot director? BBC lets AI film comedy and music shows
By Patrick Sawer, The Telegraph, 16-Dec-2017
The future of news is humans talking to machines
By Trushar Barot, Nieman Lab, 18-Sep-2017
Microsoft and BBC experiment with an iPlayer TV service that listens to you
By Tom Warren, The Verge, 2-Aug-2017
Making the Internet of Things work for journalism
By Francesco Marconi, AP, 14-Jul-2016
AI and the business of journalism
Artificial Intelligence-enhanced journalism offers a glimpse of the future of the knowledge economy
By Nick Diakopoulos, The Conversation, 11-Jun-2019
Time titles halve digital subscriber churn with tailored emails from AI named ‘James’
By Charlotte Tobitt, PressGazette, 27-May-2019
AI isn’t taking journalists’ jobs. It is making them smarter and more efficient
By Jim Flink, Reynolds Journalism Institute, 9-Apr-2019
Addressing Micro-Audiences at Scale
By T. Plattner & D. Orel, Tamedia, 1-Feb-2019
How Swiss news publisher NZZ built a flexible paywall using machine learning
By Lucinda Southern, Digiday UK, 19-Jun-2018
AI, ethics and journalism
Responsible Machine Learning in the Public Interest
By Rhianne Jones, BBC R&D, 2018
Financial Times tool warns if articles quote too many men
Jim Waterston, The Guardian, 14-Nov-2018
We Let Tech Companies Frame the Debate Over AI Ethics. That Was a Mistake.
By Robert Hart, Undark, 1-Nov-2018
Discussing the ethics, challenges, and best practices of machine learning in journalism
By Marianne Bouchart, Data Journalism Awards, 25-Jun-2018
By Ali Shah, BBC News, 21-May-2018
What is the role of journalists in holding artificial intelligence accountable?
By Francesco Marconi, Wall Street Journal, 21-May-2018
How digital leaders from the BBC and Al Jazeera are planning for the ethics of AI
By Christine Schmidt, Nieman Lab, 19-Mar-2018
As AI enters newsrooms, journalists have urgent responsibility
By Nausicaa Renner, CJR, 16-Jun-2017
BuzzFeed’s pro tennis investigation displays ethical dilemmas of data journalism
By Nicholas Diakopoulos, Columbia Journalism Review, 16-Nov-2016
How Machines Learn to Be Racist
By ProPublica, 19-Oct-2016
