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Using computational tools to support journalists’ creativity
- Source :
- Journalism
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2021.
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Abstract
- This paper presents work surrounding INJECT, a newsroom innovation offering digital tools to support journalists. Research showing increasing time and resource pressure on journalists has led to concerns about the demise of investigative reporting and the ability of today’s journalists to interrogate information adequately. Some digital innovations (e.g. tools facilitating robot journalism) have been viewed with suspicion by newsrooms. This paper reports on a research project that seeks to create an innovative tool to support the creative capabilities of time and resource poor journalists. The INJECT project used the advanced information discovery capabilities of digitisation to help journalists find new angles on stories and this paper analyses the extent to which such initiatives might harness digital innovation to benefit both the quality and range of reporting and thereby enhance creativity. It examines the potential of an information processing model of creativity derived from the INJECT tool to assist and support journalists, exploring the theoretical impact as well as the practical implications reported from the newsroom.
- Subjects :
- QA75
PN
Knowledge management
Computer science
business.industry
Communication
media_common.quotation_subject
05 social sciences
050801 communication & media studies
News production
HN
Creativity
0508 media and communications
Resource (project management)
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Work (electrical)
Computational journalism
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
business
050107 human factors
media_common
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 17413001 and 14648849
- Volume :
- 23
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journalism
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....354b0cbcf9a89723c58082b71c874c5c