Jonathan Stray leads the Overview Project for the Associated Press, a Knight News Challenge-funded visualization system to help investigative journalists make sense of very large document sets, and teaches computational journalism at Columbia University. Formerly he was an interactive editor at the Associated Press, a freelance reporter in Hong Kong, and a senior computer scientist at Adobe Systems. He has contributed stories to The New York Times, Foreign Policy, Wired and China Daily. He has an MSc in computer science from the University of Toronto and an MA in journalism from the University of Hong Kong.
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Stray, Jonathan. "Who should see what when? Three principles for personalized news." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 25 Jul. 2012. Web. 19 Sep. 2023.
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Stray, J. (2012, Jul. 25). Who should see what when? Three principles for personalized news. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved September 19, 2023, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2012/07/who-should-see-what-when-three-principles-for-personalized-news/
Chicago
Stray, Jonathan. "Who should see what when? Three principles for personalized news." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified July 25, 2012. Accessed September 19, 2023. https://www.niemanlab.org/2012/07/who-should-see-what-when-three-principles-for-personalized-news/.
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