The Robotic Reporter: Automated journalism and the redefinition of labor, compositional forms, and journalistic authority

Digital Journalism

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 416-431

  Carlson, Matt ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

automated journalism; big data; journalistic authority; news forms; news labor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977523456     PISSN: 21670811     EISSN: 2167082X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2014.976412     Document Type: Article

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