Machine Learning & AI

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

Bhatia, Aatish. Watch an AI learn to write by reading nothing but Jane Austen, NY Times, 2023

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

Bradshaw, Paul. Teaching journalism students chatgpt and generative AI. 2023 & video talk

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

Clarke, Sean et al. How AI chatbots like ChatGPT or Bard work: visual explainer. Guardian, 2023

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)

Marconi, Francesco. Newsmakers: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Journalism. Columbia University Press, 2020. Library resource

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

Murgia, Madhumita. Generative AI exists because of the transformer. This is how it works. 2023.

O’Neill, Cathy. Weapons of math destruction: how big data increases inequality and threatens democracy. Crown publishing group, 2016

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)

Thompson, Erica. Escape from model land. How mathematical models can lead us astray and what to do about it. Basic Books. 2022

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

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