Artificial Intelligence for Investigative Reporting

Broussard, Meredith

doi:10.1080/21670811.2014.985497

Cited by 54 publications

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“…Some support journalist creativity, albeit indirectly. For example, the Story Discovery Engine used artificial intelligence algorithms to support investigative reporting [8], and Tell Me More mined the web for similar stories reported by different sources and extracted text that offered new information in the form of quotes, actors and figures [21]. Other tools were developed to support journalist productivity, for example by automating parts of the reporting process [10] and analysing the increasing amounts of available open and big data with data visualization techniques [17].…”

Section: The Crisis In Journalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluating the Use of Digital Creativity Support by Journalists in Newsrooms

Maiden

Zachos

Brown

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 2019 on Creativity and Cognition

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This paper reports the evaluation of a new digital support tool designed to increase journalist creativity and productivity in newsrooms. After outlining the tool's principles, interactive features and architecture, the paper reports the installation and use of the tool over 2 months by 12 journalists in the newsrooms of 3 newspapers. Results from this evaluation revealed that tool use was associated with published news articles rated as more novel but not more valuable than published articles written by the same journalists without the tool. However, tool use did not increase journalist productivity. The evaluation results were used to inform future changes to the digital creativity support tool.

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Section: The Crisis In Journalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluating the Use of Digital Creativity Support by Journalists in Newsrooms

Maiden

Zachos

Brown

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 2019 on Creativity and Cognition

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“…Gynnild () notes that forms of computational journalism were originally created outside news organizations. Computational journalism emphasizes the use of codes, and it is produced by abstraction, aggregation, and automation (Broussard ).…”

Section: Contemporary Forms Of Quantitatively Oriented Journalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Gynnild () noted that, whereas much theoretical and practical research has focused on the technological promises of computing for journalism per se (Flew et al, ; Turner and Hamilton ), less is known about the human aspects of extended technological approaches to journalism. In this regard, recent work (Broussard ) can be helpful.…”

Section: Epistemological Concerns Along Production Phasesmentioning

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“…Gynnild (2014) notes that forms of computational journalism were originally created outside news organizations. Computational journalism emphasizes the use of codes, and it is produced by abstraction, aggregation, and automation (Broussard 2015). Coddington (2015) has made the most successful effort to distinguish and define CAR, data journalism, and computational journalism.…”

Section: Contemporary Forms Of Quantitatively Oriented Journalismmentioning

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Quantitatively Oriented Forms of Journalism and Their Epistemology

Splendore¹

2016

Sociology Compass

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The contemporary availability of data and the growing possibility of their processing have also influenced the journalistic field. Several global news companies have embraced and enhanced forms of data use. This article provides an overview of research and analysis on the journalistic use of data. It discusses three broad definitions of data, computational, and automated journalism. It then debates their epistemological implications at each stage of news production (access, processing, and editing). Finally, it outlines factors that influence their future implication, focusing on education.

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“…In the US, Associated Press has produced more than 3,700 stories using algorithms [20]. Scholars have also created AI systems for newsrooms, supporting investigative research through data analysis and visualisation [9,11,65], automatic story generation based on newsworthiness [41] and story-related creativity [43,44] . Newsrooms are cautiously optimistic about the potential of AI and plan to step up its use to drive more effective content distribution and achieve time and cost efficiencies [5,48].…”

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AI should embody our values: Investigating journalistic values to inform AI technology design

Komatsu

Lopez

Makri

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 11th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Shaping Experiences, Shaping Society

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In the current climate of shrinking newsrooms and revenues, journalists face increasing pressures exerted by the industry's for-profit focus and the expectation of intensified output. While AI-enabled journalism has great potential to help alleviate journalists' pressures, it might also disrupt journalistic norms and, at worst, interfere with their duty to inform the public. For AI systems to be as useful as possible, designers should understand journalists' professional values and incorporate them into their designs. We report findings from interviews with journalists to understand their perceptions of how professional values that are important to them (such as truth, impartiality and originality) might be supported and/or undermined by AI technologies. Based on these findings, we provide design insight and guidelines for incorporating values into the design of AI systems. We argue HCI design can achieve the strongest possible value alignment by moving beyond merely supporting important values, to truly embodying them. CCS Human-centered computing Empirical studies in HCI.

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Artificial Intelligence for Investigative Reporting

Cited by 54 publications

References 18 publications

Evaluating the Use of Digital Creativity Support by Journalists in Newsrooms

Evaluating the Use of Digital Creativity Support by Journalists in Newsrooms

Quantitatively Oriented Forms of Journalism and Their Epistemology

AI should embody our values: Investigating journalistic values to inform AI technology design

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