Machine Learning & CS

Aldhous. Peter. We trained a computer to search for hidden spy planes: this is what it found. Buzzfeed. 2017 with code

Beckett, Charlie. New powers, new responsibilities: A global survey of journalism and artificial intelligence. 2019

Bradshaw, Paul. Ten ways AI can be used for investigations (slides). 2019

Cheung, Paul. Journalism’s superfood: AI? Knight Foundation. 2019

DataFlair. Detecting fake news with python

Deepnews. Article scorer for journalistic quality

Fussell, Sidney. AI Shows ExxonMobil Downplayed Its Role in Climate Change. 2021

Gajtkowski, Adam. Predicting FT trending topics. 2021

Google News Initiative. Introduction to machine learning

ICIJ. Datashare (tool for sorting large amounts of documents)

Merrill, Jeremy B. Chamber of Secrets: teaching a machine what Congress cares about. Propublica. Oct 2017

Merrill, Jeremy B. Searching Bill de Blasio’s emails with the universal sentence encoder. Quartz

Roberts, Brandon. Dissecting a machine learning powered investigation: Uncovering local property tax evasion using machine learning and statistical modeling. Artificial Informer. April 2019

Ronderos, Maria Teresa. How innovative newsrooms are using artificial intelligence. GIJN, January 2019

Soma, Jonathan. Practical data science for journalists

Stray, Jonathan. Beyond the hype: Using AI effectively in investigative journalism. GIJN, September 2019

Thurman, Neil et al. (eds.). Algorithms, Automation & News. Routledge, 2021. Library resource See also Digital Journalism, vol 7/8, 2019. Library resource

Quartz. Helicopters circling (code)

Wu, Floris. How machine learning can (and can’t) help journalists. March 2019

Wu, Floris. The future of machine learning in journalism. Storybench. 2019