5+ hour, 15+ min ago  (1510+ words) From stories about political speech and song lyrics, to street names and social media chatter, data journalists now have a wide range of examples of text-as-data to draw inspiration and guidance from, while tools such as Pinpoint and Notebook LM…...

4+ mon, 1+ day ago  (76+ words) Last month I wrote about destination and journey prompts, and the strategy of designing AI prompts to avoid deskilling. In some situations a third, hybrid approach can also be useful. In this post I explain how such hybrid destination-journey prompting…...

4+ mon, 1+ day ago  (1033+ words) Last month I wrote about destination and journey prompts, and the strategy of designing AI prompts to avoid deskilling. In some situations a third, hybrid approach can also be useful. In this post I explain how such hybrid destination-journey prompting…...

10+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1724+ words) What exactly is the environmental impact of using generative AI? It's not an easy question to answer, as the MIT Technology Review's James O'Donnell and Casey Crownhart found when they set out to find some answers. "The common understanding of…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1346+ words) The introduction of computers into the newsroom in the 20th century added a new dimension to the practice. After some early experimentation by CBS News in predicting the outcome of the 1952 presidential election by applying computer power to data, a major…...