I found a couple of bylined articles in the Daily Illini that I wrote as a freshman. Very boring stuff; they didn't give the exciting beats to a newbie.
Then I ran them through ChatGPT to see what it thinks "objective journalism" is.
Conclusion: if I'd done what it suggested, the editor would have red-pencilled it out. It isn't that hard to just write the facts. No one wants to hear "both sides" on a donation of land to the Park District.
One of the themes of my talk was that generating text directly is actually one of the least interesting applications of LLMs to journalism - that's why I focused on things like structured data extraction and code generation (SQL and code interpreter), those are much more useful for data journalists IMO.
Then I ran them through ChatGPT to see what it thinks "objective journalism" is.
https://albertcory50.substack.com/p/ai-does-journalism
Conclusion: if I'd done what it suggested, the editor would have red-pencilled it out. It isn't that hard to just write the facts. No one wants to hear "both sides" on a donation of land to the Park District.