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# Washington Post Produces Automated Olympics Updates
- URL: https://capitolcommunicator.com/washington-post-experiments-with-automated-storytelling-at-rio-olympics-coverage/
- Published: 2016-08-10T13:02:57.000Z
- Updated: 2016-08-10T17:42:19.000Z
- Author: Capitol Communicator
- Tags: Digital, Media, #wp-top-center-sponsored, #Import 2026-10-08 18:47

**The Washington Post will leverage artificial intelligence technology** to report key information from the 2016 Rio Olympics, including results of medal events, reports [The Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/wp/2016/08/05/the-washington-post-experiments-with-automated-storytelling-to-help-power-2016-rio-olympics-coverage/?tid=hybrid%5Fcollaborative%5F2%5Fna&ref=capitolcommunicator.com).

The Post piece, in part, added:

““Heliograf,” which was developed in-house, automatically generates short multi-sentence updates for readers. These updates will appear in The Post’s live blog, on Twitter at @WPOlympicsbot, and are accessible via The Post’s Olympics skill on Alexa-enabled devices and The Post’s bot for Messenger.

““Automated storytelling has the potential to transform The Post’s coverage. More stories, powered by data and machine learning, will lead to a dramatically more personal and customized news experience,” said **Jeremy Gilbert**, director of strategic initiatives at The Washington Post. “The Olympics are the perfect way to prove the potential of this technology. In 2014, the sports staff spent countless hours manually publishing event results. Heliograf will free up Post reporters and editors to add analysis, color from the scene and real insight to stories in ways only they can.””