As if it wasn’t tough enough to make a living as a writer these days, I just read this story about computers replacing journalists. Fortunately it was mostly about sports journalism, and the story didn’t say whether computers have mastered the sports journalist’s ability to ask the same inane question nine times in a single interview.
I think we’re safe for now. Read it here: http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/04/can-the-computers-at-narrative-science-replace-paid-writers/255631/