Data Journalist Agent

Data2Story: Multi-agent framework for end-to-end data journalism with verifiable claims

Researchers introduce Data2Story (Data Journalist Agent), a multi-agent framework that orchestrates specialized roles to transform raw data into multimodal news articles. A key innovation is an Inspector module that grounds every claim back to data, code, or external references, enabling verifiability. The system also generates interactive multimodal outputs (maps, audio) rather than static text and charts. Evaluation across 18 articles with 53 human participants shows competitive quality versus expert-written pieces, with particular strength in transparency and auditability, though human journalists retain an edge in editorial angle and creative design.