“…However, it is all but clear “how humans and algorithms [should] be blended together in order to efficiently and effectively produce news information” (Diakopoulos, 2019: p. 8). To make things more complex, automation entails several challenges, not only when it comes to the design of the relation between human judgment and automation (Gutierrez Lopez et al, 2023, Gutierrez-Lopez et al, 2019), but in particular in relation to journalistic values and professional ethics in order to ensure an accountable use of algorithms, in particular because “algorithms are judged, made sense of and explained with reference to existing journalistic values and professional ethics” (Bucher, 2018: p. 129). Not only do algorithms raise ethical issues regarding the objectivity of their output (Steensen, 2019), but also regarding professional journalistic values such as transparency, accountability and responsibility (Porlezza, 2020; Komatsu et al, 2020, p. 3; Dörr and Hollnbuchner, 2017).…”