Tronc to Hire Overseer of ‘News Content Harvesting Robots’

Chicago Reader: In pursuit of what remains a fuzzy vision of a journalism future driven by artificial intelligence, Tronc is seeking to hire a “content specialist” to develop and maintain “news content harvesting robots.” In a job posting dated July 19 that reads like sci-fi, the former Tribune Publishing spews the techno jargon and digital-media buzzwords that has lately become a company trademark.