And yet, 71 percent of respondents said they had not been trained in computer-assisted reporting, and of those who had, almost half received it as a result of their own initiative.

He was the first director of computer-assisted reporting for The Associated Press, and has written for The New York Times.

Although computer-assisted reporting has existed since the 1960s, the intensification of the relationships between journalists and computer-based technology led to the development of a broader concept.

The firm also adopted Artificial Intelligence Journalist (AIJ) which uses robotics, machine learning, algorithms, logic, and automated reasoning to provide computer-assisted reporting and data driven journalism.

D'Ambrosio is a national expert in a field of journalism called computer-assisted reporting, which uses various programs to analyze government data.

Collectively this has become known as computer-assisted reporting, or CAR.

This approach to journalism builds on older practices, most notably on CAR (acronym for "computer-assisted reporting") a label used mainly in the US for decades.

Using her experience in computer-assisted reporting, Ms. St. John, 50, uncovered the reason Florida property owners pay the highest insurance rates in the nation.

In the early 1990s he built a career in what was then the new field of online research and computer-assisted reporting for various Canadian journalists.

In another exercise, this one also written with a deadline, they sturggle to write coherent leads and to structure stories about the growth of computer-assisted reporting.