2024
- Reflections on 'UN Human Security in the AI Era' Event
I was honored to attend and speak at a recent UN event about how AI might be reshaping the contours of human security: Human Security at 30: New Security and Development Horizons in the Artificial Intelligence Age (hosted by the UN Human Development Report Office). It was fascinating to...
- AI-Powered Content Audits for Local News
Organizations across the news industry are exploring ways to use generative AI to support their storytelling (many shared on this very blog). A growing trend is to use these new tools on the other end of the production cycle, to support content audits that assess a large set of stories ...
- Computation + Journalism 2024 Symposium wrap-up
We recently co-hosted the Computation + Journalism Symposium 2024 at Northeastern, bringing together academics, journalists, data scientists, editors, and more to explore innovate work at the intersection of fields. Keynotes from Julia Angwin, Aaron Sankin, and Alan Mislove.
- Your Early Fall AI+Journalism Updates
Welcome back from the summer. So much has happened at the intersection of AI and journalism while you’ve been at the beach. Here’s my latest summary of what caught my attention.
- Pre-print: Testing Generative AI for Source Audits in Student-Produced Local News
We recently shared new work at the AEJMC 2024 conference on prototyping an AI-assisted audit of gender representation via quotes in The Scope. We’ve published it as an under-construction pre-print to share the work and find related research to collaborate with.
- Grant to support AI monitoring of news for human rights violations
So excited to announce that we’ve received a grant to support our work on the Counterdata Network from the Data Empowerment Fund. Our project builds on a powerful legacy—think of Ida B. Wells using news to expose lynchings in the late 1800s. Today, we’re continuing this tradition by dev...
- Media Cloud Receives Major NSF Grant!
We’re thrilled to announce that Media Cloud has secured new NSF HNDS-I grant to take our global news archive and director to the next level! This grant enables us to extend and enhance our searchable news database, which currently includes nearly 2 billion documents. With this funding, ...
- New Strategies for Using Artificial Intelligence in Journalism
Here’s the fifth in my series of round-ups on the latest in artificial intelligence and journalism. This time around it feels like the rubber has really hit the road, with lots of work on strategies and examples being shared around the web.
- How can AI help us study the news? Here are my experiments with LLM-based query generation.
To understand politics, economics, events and health communication in the news, researchers study large sets of articles from online news sources. Media Cloud, a project that I co-lead, holds a historical archive of over 1.5 billion stories from over 100,000 sources and has been used to...
- Spring updates on artificial intelligence and journalism
Here’s the fourth in my series of round-ups on the latest in artificial intelligence and journalism. Budding uses of AI in newsrooms
- Your start of the year updates on artificial intelligence in journalism are here
This is third in my series of round-ups on the latest in artificial intelligence and journalism. Here are some recent links you might want to read.
2023
- Here are the updates you need on artificial intelligence in journalism
I’m continuing my series of round-ups on artificial intelligence and journalism. Here are some recent links you might want to read.
- Here are the latest updates on artificial intelligence in journalism
It seems like artificial intelligence is everywhere in the news, particularly in digital journalism circles. I’m keeping an eye on ongoing developments and will share an occasional round-up of links that might be relevant to you. Here’s what was happening in the last few weeks.