Dear Colleagues,

The introduction of new technologies in newsrooms has always prompted queries about potential effects on the journalism tradition—its content, means of production, and its consumption—nonetheless, the application of AI can been seen as a disruptive change.

Artificial intelligence is acquiring a growing presence in the different news-making phases: from news detection, news writing, and production, to news distribution.

In particular, AI algorithms, using the vast body of knowledge of linguistics and natural language, are able to convert data into readable stories, without human involvement.

This process of automatic news generation has sparked numerous debates between “legacy” journalists that are afraid of losing their job and “technological” journalists that understand the robot-help as a way to avoid mechanical and boring tasks.

In the same way, algorithmic news personalization on the one hand helps users choose the most suitable information within the mare magnum of infoxication, on the other it can lead to the generation of echo chambers and filter bubbles.

However, these are only a few issues that this technological innovation is introducing.

This Special Issue aims to address how the integration of AI with journalism may lead to dramatic changes, from different perspectives.

We especially invite submissions on (but not limited to) the following topics:

• Artificial intelligence and journalism;
• Case studies of the application of artificial intelligence in the newsroom;
• Automatic news generation;
• News personalization;
• The dark side of artificial intelligence: filter bubbles and echo chambers;
• Robot journalism;
• Ethical issues;
• Artificial intelligence to combat fake news and misinformation.

Dr. Santiago Tejedor Calvo
Dr. Laura Cervi
Guest Editors

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• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism
• Innovation
• Robot journalism
• News making
• Newsroom