This idiom is new to me but I guess it makes sense these days. It's also an event ("symposium") with a live coverage here. The material in there is impressive and curious, see for yourself:
"Journalists and computer scientists increasingly are working together to develop innovative methods of reporting and telling news stories. Consider:
- Journalists are mashing up drones with GPS-equipped cameras to automatically create 3D models of newsworthy structures. 
- Bots are programatically writing news stories that the public views as just as credible as those written by humans, according to one study. 
- Computer scientists are creating software programs to help journalists identify and correct false rumors spreading on Twitter. 
- Journalism students are using electronic sensors that monitor dust and noise to investigate construction sites. 
- Journo-hackers are developing tools that use artificial intelligence to pull story ideas from big, complicated data sets." 
Why do I blog this? Im polishing a manuscript on algorithms and cultural production, which is strangely orthogonal to this set of examples.