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Choose Your Own Mad Libs (or, how you can plug data into automated stories and free up lots of reporting time)Recommended on the NPA Slack
The article discusses how to use tools like MadLibs and automated data to make news articles more efficient. By creating templates with placeholder keywords, journalists can use algorithms to fill in the data and create personalized stories. The author argues that this approach can be especially useful for data-driven stories or articles with repetitive structures. They caution, however, that it is important for journalists to maintain narrative coherence and ensure the algorithm is transparent with readers.
Mike Stucka
03/21/2023
Choose Your Own Mad Libs (or, how you can plug data into automated stories and free up lots of reporting time) Recommended on the NPA Slack
The article discusses how to use tools like MadLibs and automated data to make news articles more efficient. By creating templates with placeholder keywords, journalists can use algorithms to fill in the data and create personalized stories. The author argues that this approach can be especially useful for data-driven stories or articles with repetitive structures. They caution, however, that it is important for journalists to maintain narrative coherence and ensure the algorithm is transparent with readers.
- Author: Mike Stucka
- Date: 03/21/2023
- Reading time: Under 5 minutes
- Source: source.opennews.org
- Level of complexity: Beginner
- Type: Article
- Theme: Technology
- Language: English
Last year TOI turned up the notch on data. Here’s howRecommended on the NPA Slack
Ritvvij Parrikh, Director of Product at the Times of India, discusses how the newspaper has developed products around data journalism. Thus, he proposes a framework for analyzing data products and their effectiveness in a newsroom.
Ritvvij Parrikh and Rohit Saran
05/10/2022
Last year TOI turned up the notch on data. Here’s how Recommended on the NPA Slack
Ritvvij Parrikh, Director of Product at the Times of India, discusses how the newspaper has developed products around data journalism. Thus, he proposes a framework for analyzing data products and their effectiveness in a newsroom.
- Author: Ritvvij Parrikh and Rohit Saran
- Date: 05/10/2022
- Reading time: From 6 to 10 minutes
- Source: What’s next at TOI
- Scale: National
- Level of complexity: Intermediate
- Type: Case study
- Theme: Product Strategy
- Language: English
