Tips to investigate AI labor abuses in the global south
How to investigate artificial intelligence when the workers who power it remain invisible, and the data is manipulated.
Data cleaning tools and techniques for non-coders
Tips for cleaning messy data without coding
Charting myths, debt and monkey farms: How Kontinentalist is reimagining data journalism in Asia
In an interview for the Reuters Institute, the co-founder of this Singaporean startup explains how they use immersive formats to report on everything from China’s influence to wildlife trade.
How to extract data from PDF files
Methods and tools for reading PDF files and extracting data from them, for different levels of difficulty.
Data sonification and the shift from charts to sound
Data sonification is making a comeback in journalism. We spoke with professionals about its development, future, and usefulness in the field.
How non-coding journalists can build web scrapers with AI (examples and prompts included)
A guide on non-coding journalists using AI to build web scrapers and access complex public data for their investigations.
Hundreds of thousands of videos from news publishers like The New York Times and Vox were used to train AI models
Tech giants quietly tapped major news outlets’ YouTube videos to build expansive AI training sets, raising questions over consent.
“It’s a feature, not a bug” – How journalists can spot and mitigate AI bias
Three years after ChatGPT’s debut, nearly half of newsrooms use AI despite ethical concerns, reflecting evolving attitudes across journalism and academia.
Nick Diakopoulos: Artificial intelligence and journalism beyond the hype
Professor Nick Diakopoulos speaks to iMEdD about how generative artificial intelligence is affecting newsrooms and journalism’s comparative advantage in content production. He comments on the competitive pressures media face in distribution and sees the opportunity for trust in journalism as still very much alive.