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Q&A Why one sentence per paragraph in these news articles?

None of the previous responses even hint to the fact of automated writing. A growing amount of news is written by an algorithm today. The original facts are data which are then put into sentences b...

posted 5y ago by Joe Eifert‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T03:47:16Z (over 4 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/42269
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar Joe Eifert‭ · 2019-12-08T03:47:16Z (over 4 years ago)
None of the previous responses even hint to the fact of **automated writing**. A growing amount of news is written by an algorithm today. The original facts are data which are then put into sentences by a machine. This obviously saves a lot of money and allows for automated A/B testing of news. (If we change that sentence there what will be the impact on reading?)

It's a lot easier to put data into short paragraphs that have no connection to each other than to connect the sentences in a meaningful way.

Note: I'm not a writer or journalist, but a software engineer.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2019-02-16T10:12:08Z (about 5 years ago)
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