Investigative Journalism – adding AI in the recipe

Writes Arhs, LUDCI.eu Editorial team

Newspapers and television stations across the world use artificial intelligence to determine story ideas and even write copy, but its uses in investigative journalism could revolutionise the medium. Investigative journalism is far different than standard journalism.

A single-story can take months or years to develop as reporters gather and sift through data to find the information they’re looking for. Artificial intelligence can support investigative journalism to help create stories faster and more in-depth.

“We ended up using it to identify loan agreements in the 13.4 million records of the Paradise Papers. Machine learning helped us identify a specific type of document that was interesting to follow the money, which was loan agreements tied to a big corporation,” research editor and Latin American coordinator for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Emilia-Diaz Struck said in an interview with the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Indeed, AI makes gathering Information faster. For many investigative journalists, the most difficult and painstaking task is information gathering and analysis. In t...