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.
What we took away from this year’s European Data & Computational Journalism Conference
We attended the 5th European Conference on Data Journalism and Computational Journalism, held for the first time in Athens. Here, we gather some of the key takeaways.
Two satellite images and QGIS are enough to find how much a lake has shrunken
A guide for journalists on how to observe and measure the reduction of water reserves in water bodies, like the Aposelemi Dam in Crete, with the use and the analysis of satellite images.
Water reserves in Attica from 1985 to the present day
We have collected historical data on the water reserves in Attica's reservoirs and are publishing it as an open dataset.
From data to storytelling: Concept and design tips from the Financial Times’ John Burn-Murdoch
John Burn-Murdoch, chief data reporter and columnist at the Financial Times, offers advice on how charts can tell better stories.
What is public about parliamentary decision-making in Europe?
Parliaments try to show accountability by making legislative processes, and occasionally votes or proceedings, public. We collected data about 13 European countries, as well as Australia, the US, Canada, and the European Parliament to see what is accessible to the public about their work.