automated journalism

This is a list of my publications on this topic.

Building the 'Truthmeter': Training Algorithms to Assess the Credibility of Social Media Sources

Social media is now used as an information source in many different contexts. For professional journalists, the use of social media for news production creates new challenges for the verification process. This article describes the development and …

Giving Computers a Nose for News: Exploring the Limits of Story Detection and Verification

The use of social media as a source of news is entering a new phase as computer algorithms are developed and deployed to detect, rank, and verify news. The efficacy and ethics of such technology is the subject of this article, which examines the …