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Louise StorySeptember 21, 2023

“Flexicles,” story alert systems, and other ways AI will serve publishers, reporters, and readers

“When our models noticed stocks of companies moving in ways that typically indicate news, our system pinged the relevant beat reporter in Slack so he or she could hit the phones and see what’s going on. It’s a great way to break news.”

Sophie CulpepperSeptember 14, 2023

Want to boost local news subscriptions? Giving your readers a say in story ideas can help

“By providing a service that answers questions posed by audience members, audiences are more likely to reciprocate through subscriptions.”

Dan FalkSeptember 11, 2023

How scientists can help reporters cover disasters

“Journalists and scientists have a lot in common — we both like to chase, we both like to investigate, and we like to write up what we find, and do it in a clever way, that people leave nourished.”

The Daily Tar Heel’s shooting coverage is just the latest example of college newspapers taking on a local reporting role

Sophie CulpepperAugust 15, 2023

Journalism with a PhD: The Conversation is pairing up academics with reporters for big investigations

“It is elevating investigative reporting to a level where we are able to access … jewels lying on the beach in the research of the academic world.”

“Pink slime” news sites turn to print ahead of Ohio referendum

Sophie CulpepperAugust 7, 2023

A Norwegian newspaper’s “transparency portal” aims to anticipate and answer reader questions about reporting

Readers “have to see this again and again and again, I think, before you really make an impact.”

Esther Brito Ruiz and Jeff BachmanAugust 3, 2023

In news headlines, some civilian casualties are more valuable than others

A study of New York Times headlines about wars in Yemen and Ukraine reveals a bias in recording civilian harm.

Brian ConwayJuly 31, 2023

Pittsburgh laments The Incline’s descent

An online Pittsburgh newsroom’s last remaining journalist says goodbye, as the city’s media landscape sputters.

Hanaa' TameezJuly 18, 2023

OpenAI will give local news millions to experiment with AI

Some of the funding will go to form a “studio” within the American Journalism Project; the rest will go to about 10 of AJP’s grantees.

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