A task performed by News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists
Research a story's background information to provide complete and accurate information.
Probably not worth it. Both worker desire (2/5) and AI capability (3/5) are on the low side. It sits in the Low Priority zone.
How much the people who do this task want AI to take it over (avg of 4 workers).
How capable experts rate current AI at this task (avg of 3 experts).
How much human involvement should stay?
The Human Agency Scale (H1–H5) captures how much human direction workers think this task should keep.
How to automate this
Low priority to automate, but here is the gist if you want to try.
Finding & gathering information
Make the information come to you on a schedule.
- 1Set up saved searches and alerts instead of checking manually (Google Alerts, feeds).
- 2Pull updates into one place with RSS or a no-code scraper.
- 3Use an AI search tool for the first pass, then verify the sources.
Tools that can help
Know a better way, or spot an error?
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This is 1 of 10 tasks studied for News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists, where workers want 10% of tasks automated.
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