Making the News: Digital Creativity Support for Journalists

Authors: Maiden, N; Zachos, K, Brown, A; Brock, G; Nyre, L; Tonheim, A.; Apostolou, D; Evans, J.

This paper reports the design and first evaluations of new digital support for journalists to discover and examine crea-tive angles on news stories under development. The support integrated creative news search algorithms, interactive crea-tive sparks and reusable concept cards into one daily work tool of journalists.

Maiden, Neil, Konstantinos Zachos, Amanda Brown, George Brock, Lars Nyre, Aleksander Nygård Tonheim, Dimitris Apsotolou and Jeremy Evans. 2018. “Making the News: Digital Creativity Support for Journalists”. CHI: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 475: 1-11. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174049

2018Hedvig IdåsApril 1, 2018lars nyre, journalism, immersiv journalism, algorithms

Towards Editorial Transparency in Computational Journalism

Pesearch paper by Nicholas Diakopoulos and Jennifer A Stark. It argues that there is a need to develop guidelines or frameworks for how to responsibly and accountably employ algorithms and data in journalism. It describes steps toward transparency with respect to computational journalism drawing from two case studies.

Stark, Jennifer A. and Nicholas Diakopoulos. 2016. “Towards Editorial Transparency in Computational Journalism”.

AlgorithmsSiri FlatlandsmoNovember 10, 20172016, algorithms, transparency

Algorithmic Transparency in the News Media

Nicholas Diakopoulos and Michael Koliska. This research presents a focus group study that engaged 50 participants across the news media and academia to discuss case studies of algorithms in news production and elucidates factors that are amenable to disclosure.

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