"Narrative Science" to replace sportswriters?

Example A says ffith-

One of these accounts is incorrect. Can you suspend software without pay?

 

You must be a copy editor!

Seriously though, nice catch.

 

They're both right. I found the box score.

Michigan did score four runs in the fifth inning.

And at the top of the sixth inning, the score was 6-2, so Iowa did have a four-run deficit at the top of the sixth.

 

can't be long before software plagiarizes other software.

 

So awesome. Here's to you, journeyman pitcher!

 

Um, in a grad school class in the way back year of 1996, software to write roundups and capsules were discussed by the professor.
He said that while some publishers would consider the negatives outweighed the positives. Like the initial high cost of the software and equipment, you would still need to someone to input the data and what would you do in the case of a catastrophic computer failure.

 

inevitable: alcoholic software that pads expenses
mails in its stories
jumps to radio gig at first chance

 

About two years ago I extensively tested copy editing software.

 

During college in the 1980s we discussed computer programs that one day would churn out stories and were told to be ready for it.

During the 1990s we kept hearing about companies seeing prototypes or dreaming of using computer-generated software of some sort to spit out basic gamers or briefs from stats fed into the computer.

Now in the 2010s we're hearing about it again with renewed enthusiasm because of all the electronic gizmos now at our disposal.

The first company that tries this with any gusto should have their computers destroyed with lead pipes.

 

I don't think the problematic thing for newspapers is if the software actually works. The problematic thing is that someone thinks it might work. No one's writing programs that try to assemble 3000 word profiles. They are trying it with gamers, which tells you how well gamers can avoid being priced like commodities: not at all. Being a slightly improved computer program is a tough way to earn a living.

 

inevitable:

computer software loses seniority in collective bargaining.

lay-offs of computer software.

laid-off software starts up independent blog or goes into p.r.

 

laid-off computer software posts on SportsJournalists.com.

becomes a moderator.