Social media 'bots' replace writers at online newspaper
Well, this sounds like the nightmarish end-game that many journalists fear. From Netimperative:
Tewspaper, an ‘online newspaper with no writers’, has launched in the U.S., using an algorithm that scours social media sites for relevant news links.
The site employs the concept of ‘crowdsourcing’ – using popular comments posted on social media sites such as Twitter – to distribute relevant news to readers of local newspaper sites in five U.S. cities.
Tewspaper uses publicly available APIs to automatically trawl social media sites for local news covering Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles and New York City.
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