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There are those companies that don’t pay their writers to produce content in order to save money, and then there is this. Narrative Science software produces content. It’s being used by twenty companies in order to avoid taking on more writers (and thereby paying more writers) to turn data into a news piece.
“The Narrative Science technology could potentially impact many corners of the writing trade. The company has a long list of stories they can computerize: sports stories, financial reports, real estate analyses, local community content, polling & elections, advertising campaign summaries sales & operations reports and market research.”
(via @ElectricLit)
September 13th, 2011 at 2:19 pm
You wonder why they’d go to all the expense of buying software licenses, when they could just keep stiffing their writers instead. Surely stiffing is cheaper. It’s impossible to tell a software program that working for free looks great on your resume and provides terrific exposure.