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Despite increasing amounts of data and ever improving natural language generation techniques, work on automated journalism is still relatively scarce. In this paper, we explore the field and challenges associated with building a journalistic natural language generation system. We present a set of requirements that should guide system design, including transparency, accuracy, modifiability and t...

In the event of breaking news, a wealth of crowd-sourced data, in the form of text, video and image, becomes available on the Social Web. In order to incorporate this data into a news story, the journalist must process, compile and verify content within a very short timespan. Currently this is done manually and is a time-consuming and labour-intensive process for media organisations. This paper...

According to Hirst (2011) Journalism must change to survive in response to Web 2.0, however in “The Cult Of The Amateur” Keen (2007) argues that Web 2.0 (social media) is f***** (Ha, 2009), as it undermines and decimates the ranks of our professional literary ‘gatekeepers’. In response this paper explores the impact of social media upon Journalism education from two perspectives: both from the ...

Non-Aboriginal journalists seldom get to meet and talk with Aboriginal people about their life and beliefs, and this often results in narrow and misinformed reporting. This paper reports on an ongoing initiative between the Combined Universities Centre for Rural Health (CUCRH) and the undergraduate journalism program at Edith Cowan University. Every January and July (since July 2008), eight fin...

Since 2013 researchers at University College Dublin in the Insight Centre for Data Analytics have been involved in a significant research programme in digital journalism, specifically targeting tools and social media guidelines to support the work of journalists. Most of this programme was undertaken in collaboration with The Irish Times. This collaboration involved identifying key problems cur...

This paper examines journalists‘ changing sourcing practices in the context of globalisation and developments in media technologies. It departs from Heinrich‘s concept of ―network journalism‖ that theorizes contemporary news as a product of ―a complex collaborative network of national and transnational information gatherers, producers and disseminators (...) that allows the integration of a gre...

This paper introduces the concept and discusses the implications of immersive journalism, which is the production of news in a form in which people can gain firstperson experiences of the events or situation described in news stories. The fundamental idea of immersive journalism is to allow the participant, typically represented as a digital avatar, to actually enter a virtually recreated scena...

nowadays, many researches in the field of medicine are conducting all around the world and medical journalism is a way to share the results. in fact, dissemination of the related manuscripts can prevent the repetitive research or may even lead to conducting a better survey. therefore high quality medical journals are considered as up-to-date resources for further investigations. medical journal...