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Northwestern University Knight Lab | 67 followers on LinkedIn. Media/technology/design studio @ Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communication, Northwestern U. | Northwestern University Knight Lab is a community of designers, developers, students, and educators working on experiments designed to push journalism into new spaces.  

The Lab provides an open, collaborative environment for interdisciplinary exploration and conversation, where students and professionals learn together and from one another. In short, we’re energized by hard questions worth answering; we believe in the process as much as the product.

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Sanil Jain

Knight Lab AI Journalism Fellow | Student at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism

Leo Necheles

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Michael Crystal

CS and Global History Student at Northwestern University

Catherine Rose

Northwestern University Knight Lab

🔍 New Research: Testing OpenAI's o1 Models for Journalism Tasks I've just published a detailed evaluation of OpenAI's new o1 "reasoning models" - examining their performance on real-world journalism tasks like data visualization and headline selection. Key findings: - The o1 models don't consistently outperform GPT-4o for journalism tasks - Chain-of-thought prompting greatly improves performance across all models - even with smaller, local LLMs - For data visualization tasks, GPT-4o with chain-of-thought prompting matches o1's capabilities at 1/6th the cost - In A/B headline testing, traditional models actually outperformed o1 Success with any LLM hinges more on thoughtful prompting and thorough evaluation than just raw capabilities, so finding the right tool for specific journalism tasks requires systematic, real-world testing. Read the full analysis here: https://lnkd.in/gry6Nsie

Nick Hagar

How is generative AI set to impact news media and journalism? Join us at Northwestern University as a reporter working for the https://lnkd.in/gBrG98Ta initiative. You'll write about tech, ethical/legal/social issues, industry developments, and more! Position here: https://lnkd.in/gW8sdeCc

Nicholas Diakopoulos

Thanks to Editor & Publisher (E&P) Magazine for including the Data-Driven Reporting Project in this story

It has been great to see a new data journalism student org take root at Northwestern this year. Thanks for helping it grow Amelia Freeland

New research has uncovered that news habits of young consumers differ from previous generations. Understanding these differences will be critical for news outlets to accommodate. Read more about the study from Northwestern University Knight Lab , in partnership with FT Strategies and supported by the Google News Initiative here: http://spr.ly/6045XdPKN

Northwestern University Medill School

We’ve partnered with Google News Lab to again offer a series of free virtual trainings to brighten your winter days! Join us at 11 a.m. CDT, Tuesday, March 5, to learn all about Pinpoint, a free tool that allows you to upload and analyze document collections including transcribing audio and video files and analyzing large collections of documents for keywords and entities. We'll also demo Pinpoint's newest feature, which allows you to extract and export structured data, such as tables, across multiple documents, then upload into spreadsheets. This powerful tool was created specifically for journalists’ unique work. The training is free but registration is required. Please sign up today! https://lnkd.in/gKhJgyb2

Case study: The Invisible Institute compiled a database of complaints against police officers and use of force reports in cities outside of Chicago across Illinois. The initial database has 7,000 records from the City of Champaign, Illinois and Urbana, Illinois and is geared toward both the public and journalists. The nonprofit worked with local journalists to both build the database and report stories based on the records obtained. This was modeled after work the group has done with public records regarding police in Chicago. Read their insights: https://lnkd.in/germPdih

Case study: Investigate West's data-driven reporting project started with a question about one judge who himself had been involved in some domestic violence situations. The team wanted to examine how he had ruled in domestic violence cases which led to another question: “How could we fairly judge that without understanding how other judges are doing it?” Read their insights here: https://lnkd.in/evAenWB6

The partnership continues…!🤝🏼 We’re excited to share that, for the third consecutive year, we are partnering with Northwestern University Knight Lab - Northwestern University Medill School on a strategic basis for the #JournalismAI Fellowship!🚀 Joe Germuska , Scott Bradley , and Jeremy Gilbert will share their computational journalism expertise and experience and support our 2024 Fellows as they embark on their Fellowship journey. In previous years, the Knight Lab team has provided valuable technical consultation on the various projects that Fellows have undertaken. Welcome back, friends! :)

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Submissions close Friday for our Spring 2024 cohort of the Data-Driven Reporting Project. We give financial awards to organizations and freelancers working on document-focused, investigative stories. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gbudUwYa

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