Automated Journalism in UK Local Newsrooms: Attitudes, Integration, Impact

Thäsler-Kordonouri, Sina und Barling, Kurt (2023): Automated Journalism in UK Local Newsrooms: Attitudes, Integration, Impact. In: Journalism Practice, Bd. 19, Nr. 1: S. 58-75

Abstract

Automated journalism is increasingly used in news production inUK local newsrooms. Although scholars have been discussing thedisruptive potential of automation for journalism, little is knownabout how local media practitioners deploy and perceiveautomated journalism. This study aims to help fill this researchgap using semi-structured interviews with media practitionersfrom four local news companies that use automated journalismprovided by the news automation service RADAR and withemployees from RADAR itself. Our findings show that localjournalists evaluate this type of automated journalism based onseveral occupational influences, that they integrate it into newsreporting in various ways, and that their use of automatedjournalism has an impact on journalistic output and newsroomperformance. Our evidence also shows that whilst most mediapractitioners perceive the relevance of automated journalism forlocal news reporting as limited and, instead, emphasise theimportance of human agency in the journalism workflow, whatthey report is conversely a shift in their practices which actuallysuggests that automated journalism has greater impact than theyare currently willing to acknowledge.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Sozialwissenschaften > Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaft und Medienforschung (IfKW)
• Themengebiete: 000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke > 070 Publizistische Medien, Journalismus, Verlagswesen
• ISSN: 1751-2786
• Sprache: Englisch