Algorithmically constructed news

In Wired, Steven Levy has a long profile of the fascinating field of algorithmic news-story generation. Levy focuses on Narrative Science, and its competitor Automated Insights, and discusses how t…

via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2013/04/03/algorithmically-constructed-ne.html

Narrative Science’s cofounder, Kristian Hammond, claims that 90 percent of all news will soon be algorithmically generated, but that this won’t be due to computers stealing journalists’ jobs — rather, it will be because automation will enable the creation of whole classes of news stories that don’t exist today, such as detailed, breezy accounts of every little league game in the country