Around the Web: Meet your new sportswriter

Northwestern University has produced a sportswriter they hope will be hired at community papers throughout the United States.  Not a new graduate who wants to work in community journalism – a piece of software.  The Intelligent Information Lab at Northwestern calls their new sportswriter StatsMonkey, and they think he’s perfect for community papers covering Little League games.  The co-director of the lab says that StatsMonkey is designed “to write the stories no one else is writing.”  The program takes the stats of the game and produces a sports story on the game.  Click on the link above to hear NPR’s story about the new software, plus an example of the type of stories the software can “write.”