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Meteorologists Did "Robot Journalism" Before It Was Cool

Dennis Mersereau · 03/19/14 08:30AM

Something that shook-up the media more than the media getting shaken-up in Monday morning's 4.4 earthquake in Los Angeles is the revelation that the Los Angeles Times has a set of code written to automatically post an article when the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reports that an earthquake occurred in California.