Artificial Intelligence and Automated Journalism: Contemporary Challenges and New Opportunities

Abstract

Recently, the media landscape has undergone rapid and unprecedented transformations, due to the significant advancement of Information and communication technologies (ICTs), which drive innovation [1] and continues unabated on one hand [2], along with its role in renewing and modernizing journalism on the other. Indeed, traditional media companies around the world are confronted by many challenges stemming from the radical digital transformation of the publishing industry [3]. Therefore, these companies are searching for new solutions to the challenges that the digital revolution has imposed on the news business [4]. As such, we have seen the rise of new mechanisms capable of conveying content to groups and individuals on an unprecedented speed, as well as shifting from one-way communication to interactive media.