Data Cleaning With Muck

Data journalism is a growing field, and as the practice becomes more sophisticated, data journalists are facing all the challenges of modern software development. In order to manage the increasingly complexity of data projects, journalists will need good tools. Muck is a prototype tool…

A Guide to Journalism and Design

Executive Summary

It seems rare, these days, to encounter a conversation about the future of journalism that does not make some reference to the cluster of concepts known variously as design thinking, design practice, or human-centered…

Using machine learning to classify presidential candidate social media messages

Since presidential campaigns have incorporated social media into their strategic messaging, it has become more challenging for journalists to cover the election in depth, because of the large…

Of Twitter, time, and talking: Reflections on interviewing political journalists

Journalists are busy people. It can be hard enough to get a hold of them and even more difficult to get them to meet for coffee as participants in a research project. I braced myself to…

What will the Internet of Things do to journalism?