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Are today's journalists facing the same tide of change as 19th century artisans staring into the wave of industrialization? Professor Irfan Essa of Interactive Computing studies computational journalism, and he says there's no reason software and algorithms can't augment--rather than replace--the craft of journalism as they've done with other professions.
