![my boss is a robot — crowdsourced journalism
Posted by Jim Giles
MacGregor Campbell and Jim Giles “created this blog to chronicle [their] attempt to answer a question: can unskilled, crowdsourced labor be used to create a product that require skills, experience and insight?
(They are) both journalists [who chose] a product we’re familiar with: the news story. [They] want to create a high-quality piece that could run in a reputable news magazine or newspaper. [They] assign[ed] this job to the workers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, an outsourcing website…to do the reporting, writing, editing and fact-checking — all the parts of the editorial process.
This blog is the work of MacGregor Campbell and Jim Giles who are San Francisco-based science and technology journalists. But most of the hard work of designing and running the experiment is being done by (their) collaborators: Niki Kittur and colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University. See the about us page for more.](http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg9gqe1e4f1qz8pbwo1_500.jpg)
my boss is a robot — crowdsourced journalism
Posted by Jim Giles
MacGregor Campbell and Jim Giles “created this blog to chronicle [their] attempt to answer a question: can unskilled, crowdsourced labor be used to create a product that require skills, experience and insight?
(They are) both journalists [who chose] a product we’re familiar with: the news story. [They] want to create a high-quality piece that could run in a reputable news magazine or newspaper. [They] assign[ed] this job to the workers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, an outsourcing website…to do the reporting, writing, editing and fact-checking — all the parts of the editorial process.
This blog is the work of MacGregor Campbell and Jim Giles who are San Francisco-based science and technology journalists. But most of the hard work of designing and running the experiment is being done by (their) collaborators: Niki Kittur and colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University. See the about us page for more.
