Robot Journalist or Human Journalist?: An Analysis is Over News Articles

Abstract

Technology and humans have been in constant interaction in the historical process. So much so that with every technological progress, mankind has entered a new revolutionary era; first the Agricultural Revolution, then the Industrial Revolution and finally the Information Revolution. Thanks to information technologies, society is connected with information networks. The information society demands the continuous production of information with an insatiable appetite. The media, which has been undertaking the responsibility of enlightening the public for hundreds of years, is experiencing a transformation with technology and as a result, practices in journalism are constantly changing. The profession of journalism has a convergent relationship with computer engineering. Robot journalists can now produce the news that were made by humans for hundreds of years. The Algorithms which were previously used to edit/arrange the news, can now be used in writing the news. Thousands of news from the world's most important agencies and newspapers, such as Associated Press, Reuters, and The Washington Post, are now being written by robot journalists. With the developed software, these robots can organize financial data, write news about sports and even election results, and provide information to the public in just a few minutes after an earthquake. The Los Angeles Times was able to write news about all the homocides in the California area without any delay, with the use of A.I. journalism. In short, robot Journalism revoked the previous argument that robots can only be manuel labour workers and this argument is now replaced by; robots are capable of intellectual work. The development of robot journalism that marked the first quarter of the 21st century scares human journalists day after day; for many remark that they will face the risk of losing their jobs in the near future. This study comprises the comparison of the news sample written by robot journalists with the news written by human journalists and its analysis by a group of journalist candidates.