The 2024 Computation + Journalism Symposium

October 25-27, 2024

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Hosted by Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts

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Keynote Speakers

Julia Angwin

Julia Angwin is an American investigative journalist, author, and entrepreneur. She co-founded and was editor-in-chief of The Markup, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the impact of technology on society.

Aaron Sankin

Aaron Sankin is an editor on the Marshall Project’s data team. Prior to joining the Marshall Project, he was an investigative reporter at The Markup reporting on algorithmic discrimination, and at the Center for Investigative Reporting, covering online extremism.

Alan Mislove

Alan Mislove is a professor and the senior associate dean for academic affairs at Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. He recently served as Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer for Privacy at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

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Panels

LLMs, Search, and Bias

Sat, Oct 26 | 10:15-11:15 | Room 136

Nick Beauchamp

Measuring Media Bias in the Selective Reporting of Events: The Promises and Challenges of Large Language Models

Zhen Guo, Allison Wan, Kai-Cheng Yang and David Lazer

Google Searches Regarding Politicians are Dominated by a Few Nonpartisan News Sources

Charlotte Li and Nicholas Diakopoulos

Probing GPT-4 for Knowledge of Journalistic Tasks

Harry Yaojun Yan, Garrett Morrow, Kai-Cheng Yang and John Wihbey

Public Concerns Over AI-Supercharging Misinformation in the 2024 US Presidential Election

Audience and Representation

Sat, Oct 26 | 10:15-11:15 | Room 138

Alyssa Smith, Sagar Kumar, Yukun Yang and Pranav Goel

An Annotated Dataset of U.S. Transgender News For Determining Agenda-Setting & Information Flows

Eliza Mitova

A Complex Interplay: Exploring the (Mis)Match Between Audiences’ and News Organizations’ Assessments of News Personalization

Kristi Tanner, Anjanette Delgado and Stephen Harding

Missing in Detroit: Creating a Framework for Equitable Reporting and Minimizing Harm

Mohamed Salama

Bias or Not? Exploring US Press Representations of Law Enforcement in Lynching Coverage, 1789–1963

AI in Newsrooms

Sat, Oct 26 | 10:15-11:15 | Room 140

Bahareh Heravi

Applying AI in Newsrooms: Lessons from the Applied AI in Journalism Challenge

Nadia Kohler and Titus Plattner

Scaling GenAI Experimentation and Implementation in the Newsroom

Dhrumil Mehta, Aisvariya Chandrasekar and Ken Muira

Pollfinder.ai | Using Large Language Models to Help Newsrooms Aggregate Polls For the 2024 Election

Language Analysis and Bias

Sat, Oct 26 | 11:30-12:30 | Room 136

Jiaxin Pei

Modeling Information Change in Science Communication with Natural Language Processing

Sachita Nishal, Eric Lee and Nicholas Diakopoulos

De-jargonizing Science for Journalists with GPT-4: A Pilot Study

Rahul Bhargava, Elisabeth Hadjis and Meg Heckman

A Case Study in an A.I.-Assisted Content Audit

William Brannon and Deb Roy

The Speed and Sentiment of News in Twitter (X) vs. Radio

Newsroom Practice

Sat, Oct 26 | 11:30-12:30 | Room 138

Hope Schroeder, Jad Kabbara and Deb Roy

AI-Mediated Analysis: Just put a Human in the Loop?

Catherine Sotirakou, Katerina Mandenaki, Anastasia Karampela and Costas Mourlas

Strategies for Success: Dos and Don’ts in the Digital Transformation of Media Companies

Md Main Uddin Rony, Saransh Grover, Farhana Uddin, Yoo Yeon Sung, Mohammad Ali and Naeemul Hassan

Perceptions and Corrections of Misleading News Headlines: Insights from Journalists and News Consumers

Jessica Zier and Nicholas Diakopoulos

Labeling AI-Generated News Content: Matching Journalist Intentions with Audience Expectations

Content and Ethics

Sat, Oct 26 | 11:30-12:30 | Room 140

Leah Teichholtz, Katy Gero and Elena Glassman

Syntaktis: A Large-Language-Model-Backed Editing Interface for Supporting Ethical Journalism Practices

Cole Biehle, Ritvik Irigireddy, Lu Sun and Steven P. Dow

Participatory Journalism: Stakeholder Perspectives on Enhancing Online Discussion through Data Talk

Stephen Jefferson

Geographic Consistency: A New Framework for Measuring Fluctuations and Representation in Local Journalism

Investigative Techniques

Sat, Oct 26 | 4:30-5:30 | Room 138

Alexander Spangher, Emilio Ferrara, Ben Welsh, Nanyun Peng, Serdar Tumgoren and Jonathan May

Surfacing Newsworthy Public Documents As Leads

Joris Veerbeek and Nicholas Diakopoulos

Using Generative Agents to Create Tip Sheets for Investigative Data Reporting

Local News

Sat, Oct 26 | 4:30-5:30 | Room 136

Doug Beeferman and Nabeel Gillani

Search and Discovery of Local Government Meetings for Journalists

Alexi Quintana, Kai-Cheng Yang, Pranav Geol, Burak Ozturan and David Lazer

Revealing the Localness of News Domains through Consumption Patterns on Social Media

Marianne Aubin Le Quéré, Siyan Wang, Tazbia Fatima and Michael Krisch

Towards Identifying Local Content Deserts with Open-Source Large Language Models

Arijit Paladhi

Predicting News Deserts Using Supervised Machine Learning

Partnering and Community

Sun, Oct 27 | 12:00-1:00 | Room 136

Kai-Cheng Yang, Pranav Goel, Jeffrey Gleason and Alvaro Feal

Introduction to National Internet Observatory

Brooke Williams

What We’ve Learned: Teaming Up Journalism and Computer Science Students to Produce Data-Driven Investigations for News Outlets

Dhrumil Mehta and Aarushi Sahejpal

Data Journalism Teachers’ Club: A New Community For Data Journalism Educators

Data Journalism

Sun, Oct 27 | 12:00-1:00 | Room 138

Louri Glen Kae Compain and Thomas Hurtut

CuratedDDS: A Taxonomy and a Dataset of Data-Driven Stories to Support Journalists’ Inspiration

Divyanshi Wadhwa and Alice Thudt

What Does it Take to Create an Award-winning Data Public Good? Behind the Scenes of Producing the Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2023

Lily Houtman

The Challenges and Opportunities of Designing News Maps for Mobile Devices

Workshops

Evaluating GenAI Tools in Your Newsroom

Charlotte Li, Sachita Nishal and Nicholas Diakopoulos

Sat, Oct 26 | 2:45-4:15 | Room 136

Social Network Analysis for Sports and Investigative Journalism

Hong Qu and Julian Benbow

Sat, Oct 26 | 2:45-4:15 | Room 138

Using LLMs To Help You Build Data Visualizations In D3

Dhrumil Mehta and Aarushi Sahejpal

Sat, Oct 26 | 2:45-4:15 | Room 140

Physical Data Visualization

Andres Snitcofsky and Rahul Bhargava

Sat, Oct 26 | 2:45-4:15 | Room 142

AI Innovation in the Newsroom: A Design Thinking Workshop to Support New Approaches to Responsible AI

Maximilian Eder

Sun, Oct 27 | 10:15-11:45 | Room 136

Overcoming Challenges in Implementing AI in the Newsroom

Nadia Kohler and Titus Plattner

Sun, Oct 27 | 10:15-11:45 | Room 138

Preparing for the Day After: Covering Elections through the Inauguration

Jason Radford

Sun, Oct 27 | 10:15-11:45 | Room 140

Finding and using undocumented APIs

Leon Yin and Piotr Sapiezynski

Sun, Oct 27 | 10:15-11:45 | Room 142

Conference Leadership

Rahul Bhargava, Piotr Sapieżyński, Chenyan Jia

Co-Chairs, Program Committee

John Wihbey

General Chair

Susan Conover

Finance Chair

Dan Zedek, Matt Carroll

Faculty Conference Directors

Amelia Keany, Libby Phillips

Staff Administrators

Emma Klekotka

Student Co-Director and Web Lead

Thank you to our event sponsors

Questions?

Contact John Wihbey, j.wihbey@northeastern.edu