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Nicholas Diakopoulos is an assistant professor of communication at Northwestern University.

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November 8, 2022

There’s a 68 in 100 chance you’ll read this article about the audience for FiveThirtyEight-style election predictions

In other words, the odds are pretty good — but it’s far from a lock.

October 18, 2021

How A/B testing can (and can’t) improve your headline writing

“We found, surprisingly, that no single feature of a headline’s writing style makes much of a difference in forecasting success.”

June 12, 2019

Droidward and Botstein can’t do it all, but AI-enhanced journalism offers a glimpse of the next knowledge economy

Estimates say that today’s AI can automate only about 15 percent of a reporter’s job and 9 percent of an editor’s job. But that doesn’t mean AI won’t change a lot of the work that remains.

Fortifying social media from automated inauthenticity

“Artificial neural networks are advancing rapidly in their ability to synthesize content — including images, videos, and texts — that are increasingly indistinguishable from authentic content.”

Platforming the news

“There’s more at stake in the competition around platforms than market share and money. It’s a question of values.”

February 14, 2013

Finding tools vs. making tools: Discovering common ground between computer science and journalism

At Georgia Tech’s Computation + Journalism Symposium, representatives from both fields explored what the vibrant news information environment might look like.

Nick Diakopoulos: Understanding bias in computational news media

As algorithms play an ever-larger role in how we get news and information, it’s important to realize the ways that bias — intentional or not — can seep into their decisions.