| Title | News Report Written by Robot | |
| Date | Wednesday March 19 2014, @11:06PM | |
| Author | janrinok | |
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| from the did-the-earth-move-for-you? dept. | ||
dotdotdot writes:
"The Los Angeles Times was the first newspaper to publish a story about an earthquake on Monday thanks to a robot writer.
Ken Schwencke, a journalist and programmer for the Los Angeles Times, was jolted awake at 6:25 a.m. on Monday by an earthquake. He rolled out of bed and went straight to his computer, where he found a brief story about the quake already written and waiting in the system. He glanced over the text and hit "publish." And that's how the LAT became the first media outlet to report on this morning's temblor. 'I think we had it up within three minutes,' Schwencke told Slate.
The original report read: 'A shallow magnitude 4.7 earthquake was reported Monday morning five miles from Westwood, California, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 6:25 a.m. Pacific time at a depth of 5.0 miles.'
According to the USGS, the epicenter was six miles from Beverly Hills, California, seven miles from Universal City, California, seven miles from Santa Monica, California and 348 miles from Sacramento, California. In the past ten days, there have been no earthquakes magnitude 3.0 and greater centered nearby.
This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service and this post was created by an algorithm written by the author."
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