Journalism students at Northwestern University have teamed with their peers in computer science to develop several applications that produce and organize information. One generates sports stories from box score and play-by-play information. Another one is suited for an iPhone, and organizes the news into 5-minute, 10-minute, or 20-minute chunks. And yet another would allow journalists to fact-check their stories in Microsoft Word without switching to an Internet search. The groups will meet with journalists in the industry to discuss their applications next week.
You can read the study published by Northwestern University here.