• Poynter, Wednesday, August 21, 2013 3:35 PM

Last year the Washington Post considered using an automatic writing service to cover the high school sports beat, which according to an editor's estimate would need about 300 reporters to attend all the games in the area -- but the powers-that-be decided against it, though they didn't rule out taking the step in the future, according to Andrew Beaujon. 

Huh? In case you're not up to speed on this trend, the original video of this story from the Washington Post goes into more depth on automated journalism, in which algorithms take data and use it to write fairly formulaic stories.

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