Press Association

Summary

This chapter explores a case study of Press Association (PA) – a UK‐based news agency. It looks into how this company uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to solve problems. PA partnered with data‐driven journalism specialists Urbs Media to build an AI system capable of mass‐producing localized news stories based on data that is fed into it. The key AI technology used in the RADAR project is natural language processing and generation. News stories created with the RADAR system are now available to more than 1,000 local news outlets through the PA news feed. AI can quickly and accurately compile news reports in easy‐to‐understand natural human language, simply using public datasets. Human journalists will have more time available to carry out in depth investigations into the background issues that may not be picked up by the AI working on the data alone.