Can data make a newsroom more diverse in its choice of sources? In 2023, a Canadian newsroom let researchers demo an AI tool that reads published articles and sorts every quote: politicians, authorities, experts, organizations, celebrities, media, and unaffiliated. After seeing results, the newsroom decided against it. (Sage)
- Researchers at Toronto Metropolitan University built an AI tool to analyze who journalists quote in their stories, then asked reporters whether it would be useful.
- Reporters said yes, but pointed to editorial culture and institutional norms as barriers to actually using it.
