The world of data journalism has opened up and become more user friendly than ever at the exact right moment. Simon Rogers, a data journalist with the Google News Initiative, says it wasn’t so long ago that graphic designers were still relying on pen and ink for their images. They had to work harder, and…
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Nick Diakopoulos is an assistant professor in communication studies and computer science at Northwestern University where he’s also the director of the Computational Journalism Lab. In addition, Diakopoulos the author of Automating the News: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Media. Recently, it was announced that he is joining Jeremy Bowers’ team at The Washington Post to develop…
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Research papers come out all the time, but how do journalists know which ones are worth noting and which aren’t worth the paper the press release was printed on? Journalist’s Resource, a website and tool from Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, wants to help make that distinction exquisitely clear….
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Keren Henderson, an assistant professor of broadcast and digital journalism at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, joins producer Michael O’Connell to review her research on the makeup of local news broadcasts, breaking down the age, gender and race of the reporters along with the stories they cover.
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