How machine learning is changing the newsroom

The newsroom is unrecognisable from those of 10 years ago. Machine learning and other forms of technology falling within the artificial intelligence (AI) umbrella are being used by news organisations to increase efficiency, as well as profitability. How the LA Times used machine learning to interrogate statistics In a report found on Medium.com, Freia Nahser, innovation reporter and editor of Global Editors Network, explains how the Los Angeles Times used machine learning algorithms to show how the city's police department misclassified 14 000 serious assaults as minor offences between 2005 and 2012. This statistical change effectively lowered the city's crime rate, when the reality was somewhat different.