There are pros and cons to using AI as your editor
The editing process is an essential part of any news piece. Artificial Intelligence technology is playing a larger role in some newsrooms to help with transcription, captioning and other duties. It is simplifying many tasks for journalists, and editing is not an exception.
This month I tried out the AI editing software: Hemingway Editor. To start, I reported a story on broadband infrastructure for the Columbia Missourian. For their published version, I followed the standard editing workflow by utilizing one of their human editors. At the same time, I pasted my draft into Hemingway to see how the two final stories would compare.
