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EPISODE · Mar 20, 2018 · 24 MIN

Inside a Local Newspaper's Fight to Survive

from Foundering · host Bloomberg

Since the advent of the internet, local newspapers like the U.K.'s Bournemouth Daily Echo have been relentlessly cutting costs to survive. Now, another wave of change is approaching: automation. This week, Bloomberg Technology's Jeremy Kahn visits the Echo's newsroom, which has been experimenting with computer-generated stories produced by a project funded by Google. The technology's helping the paper's editors serve its readers with fewer journalists. But will automation ultimately end up taking even more jobs?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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