In April, Micklethwait sent out an email to Bloomberg about how the company was beefing up its story automation efforts, and he commented on that Wednesday, saying, “In general, there’s the issue of automation,” he said. “Now it’s possible to get computers set up for alerts to tell you when precise things are happening. In some cases you feed those directly to the community. In other cases, it’s a prompt for journalists to say…Hey this has just happened. Do you think we should do a story on it? And even if you say no, at least you have to go through that process. ”
“Some people are frightened by automation, but I tend think it takes away some of the rather annoying bits of journalism and give more value to the good bits.”
Former Business Insider executive editor Rebecca Harrington has been hired by Dynamo to be its…
Bloomberg Television has hired Brenda Kerubo as a desk producer in London. She will be covering Europe's…
In a meeting at CNBC headquarters Thursday afternoon, incoming boss Mark Lazarus presented a bullish…
Ritika Gupta, the BBC's North American business correspondent, was interviewed by Global Woman magazine about…
Rest of World has hired Kinling Lo as a China reporter. Lo was previously a…
Bloomberg News saw strong unique visitor growth to its website in October, passing Fox Business…