Periodismo deportivo automatizado. Estudio de caso de AnaFut, el bot desarrollado por El Confidencial para la escritura de crónicas de fútbol

José Luis Rojas Torrijos; Carlos Toural Bran

doi:10.31921/doxacom.n29a12

Authors

José Luis Rojas Torrijos University of Sevilla, Spain https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7390-9843
Carlos Toural Bran University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0961-3925

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31921/doxacom.n29a12

Keywords:

Automated journalism, robot journalisim, data journalism, sports journalism, journalistic report

Abstract

Sport coverage has become an expanding field for automated journalism due to the inherent nature of competition. Sporting events have a strong statistical basis that fosters the use of structured datasets and helps media outlets schedule news routines as a result of the cyclic, repetitive nature of matches and tournaments, and consequently of news coverage. This article is a case study of AnaFut, the first bot developed by the digital native newspaper El Confidencial. This is the first Spanish media outlet to use this technology for the automated writing of sport articles. Content analysis of eighty published sport reports, semi-structured interviews of journalists from El Confidencial, and questionnaires giving to a panel of five experts were carried out. The results show that development and application of Artificial Intelligence in journalism and in the sports field in particular is still in its early stages, and that media organizations from the most technologically advanced countries are leading the search for innovation.

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Author Biographies

José Luis Rojas Torrijos, University of Sevilla, Spain

PhD in Journalism from the University of Sevilla, he holds a position as professor in the Journalism II Department at the same university. He is a member of the research group Communication & Social Sciences (COM&SOC) as well as a lecturer of the following Master's Degree courses: Innovation in Journalism at Miguel Hernández University; Sport Journalism, Pompeu Fabra University; Communication and Sport Journalism, European University of Madrid; Sports Journalism at University CEU San Pablo- Marca; and Sports Journalism at UCAM. He is also coordinator of the collective work entitled Periodismo deportivo de manual, and co-author of En Antena, the stylebook of Cadena SER.
Carlos Toural Bran, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

PhD in Communication Sciences from the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC). He also teaches Multimedia, New Formats and Cyber Culture in the Department of Communication Sciences at the same university. He has been Vice Dean of the Faculty of Communication Sciences at USC and a journalist since 2006, and has participated in the research group Novos Medios, of which he is the secretary. He is editor of the journal of the Spanish Association of Communication Research and president of the Galician Association of Researchers in Communication (AGACOM).

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