Archive for April 18th, 2012

 

Bringing Computer Science and Journalism Together

April 18th, 2012
A new framework for innovation in journalism: How a computer scientist would do it [image courtesy Nieman Journalism Lab].

Computer scientist -- and 2009 Computing Innovation Fellow (CIFellow) -- Nick Diakopoulos recently published a white paper about the similarities between journalism and computer science that's attracted quite a bit of buzz. In an article in Harvard's Nieman Journalism Lab earlier this month: What if journalism were invented today? How would a computer scientist go about building it, improving it, ...