From the Financial Times:
First it was the typewriter, then the teleprinter. Now a US news service has found a way to replace human beings in the newsroom and is instead using computers to write some of its stories.
Thomson Financial, the business information group, has been using computers to generate some stories since March and is so pleased with the results that it plans to expand the practice.
The computers work so fast that an earnings story can be released within 0.3 seconds of the company making results public.
Link: FT.com / Companies / Media & internet - Computers write news at Thomson.
These are for business wire stories about earnings, so it's not too surprising, but so many other "news" stories these days are just regurgitated press releases that it can't be long before the practice takes off.
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