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Bots in the newsroom: How Slack and AI are changing the way news is discovered, created and distributed

The Splice Newsroom

About me• Career journalist • Radio, TV, newswires, magazines, online • Newsroom strategy and operations consultant • Digital transformation and change management • ONA Singapore co-founder

What’s the problem with newsroom workflows today?

1. Discoverability: There are just too many tools, dashboards, tabs to look at.2. Friction: The tools to do these things are just too cumbersome.

“The medium is the message.”“Messaging is the new medium.”

Messaging is already the fastest growing online behavior passing social networks

Source: Tech and Media Outlook 2016, Activate

Messaging is also changing the way we communicate and collaborate in newsrooms

Chat bots are evolving quickly as an operating system

Within the next 3 years, most modern newsrooms will be built with a messaging layer that will form the foundation of the editorial workflow.

#ballsyprediction

Newsroom bots already perform three important tasks today

1.Alerts

2.Answers

3.Decisions

Use cases today

Slack as an operating system for newsrooms

Use Case: How do you keep up with breaking news?

Use Case: How do you decide which stories to run on Facebook?

Use Case: How do you follow election data?

Use Case: How do you make sense of analytics?

Use Case: How do you make sense of analytics?

And there’s a lot more that can be done

But that’s the boring part.

What if we could teach the algo to recognize, recommend and

craft stories?

How about a playlist for articles?

“My Uber arrives in 2 minutes. Give me something quick to read.”

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