Norman Chad | timesunion.com
There’s a sportswriting revolution going on out there and it doesn’t involve sportswriters — thanks to “automation technology,” sports articles are now being written by, uh, computers.
Two companies — Durham, N.C.-based Automated Insights and Chicago-based Narrative Science — are aiming to make sportswriters the next dinosaurs. These companies transfer data into written reports, rendering obsolete the ink-stained wretch sitting in a press box eating free hot dogs.
First there was the driverless car. Now there is the writer-less sports story.
