Journalism as Information Science
The core activity of journalism basically boils down to this: knowledge production. It’s presented in various guises: stories, maps, graphics, interviews, and more recently even things like newsgames,...
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News Headlines and Retweets
How do you maximize the reach and engagement of your tweets? This is a hugely important question for companies who want to maximize the value of their content. There are even start-ups, like Social...
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Finding News Sources in Social Media
Whether it’s terrorist attacks in Mumbai, a plane crash landing on the Hudson River, or videos and reactions from a recently capsized cruise ship in Italy, social media has proven itself again and...
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Systematic Technical Innovation in Journalism
The idea that innovation can be an organized, systematic search for change is not new — Peter Drucker wrote about it over 25 years ago in his book Innovation and Entrepreneurship — and I’m fairly...
View ArticleMoving Towards Algorithmic Corroboration
Note: this is cross-posted on the Berkman/MIT “Truthiness in Digital Media” blog. One of the methods that truth seekers like journalists or social scientists often employ is corroboration. If we find...
View ArticleCultivating the Landscape of Innovation in Computational Journalism
For the last several months I’ve been working on a whitepaper for the CUNY Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism. It’s about cultivating more technical innovation in journalism and involves...
View ArticleThe Future of Automated Story Production
Note: this is cross-posted on the CUNY Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism site. Recently there’s been a surge of interest in automatically generating news stories. The poster child is a...
View ArticleFact-Checking at Scale
Note: this is cross-posted on the CUNY Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism site. Over the last decade there’s been a substantial growth in the use of Fact-Checking to correct...
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Comment Readers Want Relevance!
A couple years ago now I wrote a paper about the quality of comments on online news stories. For the paper I surveyed a number of commenters on sacbee.com about their commenting experience on that...
View ArticleUnderstanding bias in computational news media
Just a quick pointer to an article I wrote for Nieman Lab exploring some of the ways in which algorithms serve to introduce bias into news media. Different kind of writing than my typical academic-ese,...
View ArticleAha! Brainstorming App
In April 2012 I published a whitepaper on Cultivating Innovation in Computational Journalism with the CUNY Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism. Jeff Jarvis wrote about it on the Tow-Knight...
View ArticleNeolithic Journalists? Influence Engines? Narrative Analytics? Some Thoughts...
A few weeks ago now was the 2nd Computation + Journalism Symposium at Georgia Tech, which I helped organize and program. I wrote up a few reflections on things that jumped out at me from the meeting....
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51% Foreign: Algorithms and the Surveillance State
In New York City there’s a “geek squad” of analysts that gathers all kinds of data, from restaurant inspection grades and utility usage to neighborhood complaints, and uses it to predict how to improve...
View ArticleAlgorithmic Defamation: The Case of the Shameless Autocomplete
Note: A version of the following also appears on the Tow Center blog. In Germany, a man recently won a legal battle with Google over the fact that when you searched for his name, the autocomplete...
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Storytelling with Data Visualization: Context is King
Note: A version of the following also appears on the Tow Center blog. Data is like a freeze-dried version of reality, abstracted sometimes to the point where it can be hard to recognize and understand....
View ArticleWhat a News Consumer Wants
What exactly is it that drives people to consume news information? If we can answer that, I would argue, then we open a new space of possibility for creating new media products, and for optimizing...
View ArticleComputational Journalism and The Reporting of Algorithms
Note: A version of the following also appears on the Tow Center blog. Software and algorithms have come to adjudicate an ever broader swath of our lives, including everything from search engine...
View ArticleThe Anatomy of a Robot Journalist
Note: A version of the following also appears on the Tow Center blog. Given that an entire afternoon was dedicated to a “Robot Journalism Bootcamp” at the Global Editors Network Summit this week, it’s...
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Diversity in the Robot Reporter Newsroom
The Associated Press recently announced a big new hire: A robot reporter from Automated Insights (AI) would be employed to write up to 4,400 earnings report stories per quarter. Last year, that same...
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What’s in a Ranking?
The web is a tangled mess of pages and links. But through the magic of the Google algorithm it becomes a nice and neatly ordered rank of “relevance” to whatever our heart desires. The network may be...
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