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Articles tagged computational journalism (5)

Christine SchmidtJuly 25, 2019

How to cover 11,250 elections at once: Here’s how The Washington Post’s new computational journalism lab will tackle 2020

“We’re not super-interested in telling a story about one Iowa county using this infrastructure. But we’re making sure our reporters know which county in Iowa to go if they’re looking for one that has particular characteristics.”

Caroline O'DonovanApril 1, 2013

Shaping technology to the story: The Brown Institute for Media Innovation is finding its niche

“Sometimes the technology leads, and sometimes, the journalism has to lead.”

The rise of the quants, clip-and-share video, and a more diverse NPR: Some of Spark Camp’s big ideas of 2012

Jonathan Stray, Meredith Artley, and John Davidow share some of the big ideas they’ll take away from the year. Spark Camp

Man reading a newspaper next to man reading news on a Kindle

Andrew PhelpsApril 5, 2012

A new framework for innovation in journalism: How a computer scientist would do it

Nick Diakopolous, in a new report from CUNY, argues that journalism is a lot like computer science, since both are fundamentally concerned with information.

Seth C. LewisFebruary 10, 2012

Still shaping the way people think about news innovation? A few reflections on the new KNC 2.0

The Knight News Challenge may be shifting gears, but it’s still an important window into where news innovation is taking us.