The Augmented Newsroom: How AI/ML Can Amplify Your Reporting Dataminr

In this era of 24 hour news cycles where news breaks more often on social media than on the front page, newsrooms and journalists have been able to work more efficiently to stay on top of important stories by using Artificial Intelligence. AI has long been seen as away of relegating the more mundane, time-consuming tasks away from the man to the machine, allowing journalists more time to do the thing we rely on them for: reporting. But things are changing, and AI is developing with an aim of doing more to the newsroom than helping achieve maximum productivity. Some early adopters in the AI efficiency space were technologies like the BBC News' Juicer Project. Juicer launched in 2012 with the aim to "provide a source of tagged News content to power prototypes."