The latest of my series of posts on using generative #AIonlinejournalismblog.com/2024/09/26/u...

Using generative AI as a spreadsheet and data cleaning assistant

Spreadsheet analysis is part of the research phase of a story Generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Gemini can be a big help when dealing with data in spreadsheets. In this third of a series of posts f...

My colleagues at the BBC Shared Data Unit have done a fantastic job uncovering the scale of cuts to libraries and their impact (including deprived areas being harder hit) - great to this story being picked up so widely www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Public libraries in 'crisis' as councils cut services

Deprived communities lost more libraries since 2016 than richer areas did, the BBC finds

📖 Hot off the press with my chapter on communicating uncertainty: Data Journalism and the Covid-19 Disruption. Especially lovely is that two former students also have chapters in the book: Ashley Kirk and Carmen Aguilar García www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

“Generative AI often has a propensity to please and view things positively. Training it to understand politically nuanced language, where something might be nominally supported but effectively delayed or compared unfavorably with other parties, is challenging.” www.journalismai.info/blog/masteri...

Mastering Document Comparison: Key Insights So Far — JournalismAI

Research finds “certain positions and aspects of journalistic work bring increased risk of facing harassment” on social media. Investigative journalism, opinion pieces, public broadcasting “identified as strong risk factors” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Harassed for Their Job: Exploring Factors That Render Journalists Prone to Harassment and Intimidation

Amid growing concern over harassment and intimidation targeting journalists, scholarly attention to their occurrence and implications has mushroomed. One aspect of these phenomena that often gets o...

"Please don't get your hopes up because then you might yell at me if I'm wrong" as a guiding principle of data journalism.

Really interesting case where Strava data used for story was flawed and regulator ruled it should have been more clearly labelled as such pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/new...

Telegraph in IPSO breach with article claiming cyclists were doing 52mph and 'putting lives at risk'

The Telegraph breached the Editors' Code when it published data claiming cyclists were doing 52 miles per hour and "putting lives at risk".

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Tell us where to point satellites to take high quality satellite imagery! 🛰️ Put the coordinates of the area of interest and why it is important for research purposes in the comments. We will select a few of your suggestions to publish with analysis by Bellingcat researchers...

From the Times Insider, here's a behind-the-scenes on how our journalism comes together. This time about these little animations our team does and how the readers have reacted to them: bit.ly/3AbplBM#animation 🏃