How Reuters is Transforming Journalism With Artificial Intelligence Analytics Insight

Reuters is building a tool with artificial intelligence to help journalists in analyzing data, suggest story ideas, and even write more sentences. The tool aims not to replace reporters but instead augment them with a digital data scientist-cum-copywriting assistant. Called Lynx Insight, it has been used by many journalists and will now be rolled out across all the classrooms of Reuters. Reg Chua, executive editor of editorial operations, data and innovation at Reuters, says the aim is to divvy up editorial work into what machines do best and what editorial human staff excels at (such as asking questions, judging importance, understanding context and -- presumably -- drinking excessive amounts of coffee). That differs from previous editorial tech efforts that sought to train an AI to write entire stories in the form of snippets about local sports teams or earthquake warnings.