Inside a Local Newspaper’s Fight to Survive

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(Bloomberg) -- Since the advent of the internet, local newspapers like the U.K.'s Bournemouth Daily Echo have been relentlessly cutting costs to survive. Now, another wave of change is approaching: automation. This week, Bloomberg Technology's Jeremy Kahn visits the Echo's newsroom, which has been experimenting with computer-generated stories produced by a project funded by Google. The technology's helping the paper's editors serve its readers with fewer journalists. But will automation ultimately end up taking even more jobs?

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To contact the authors of this story: Jeremy Kahn in London at jkahn21@bloomberg.net, Brad Stone in San Francisco at bstone12@bloomberg.net.

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