bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… More deprived communities were 4x more likely to have lost a publicly-funded library. Thanks to all who spoke to us for this piece a few days ago - incl Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 Libraries Connected CILIP Libraries Unlimited and lots of library users and librarians.

🤩MA Data Journalism alumna Beatriz Farrugia (she/her) delivered a workshop for the Brazilian investigative journalism association Abraji this summer on the verification techniques she uses as a data journalist at the Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab - @dfrlab.bsky.social) #bcujournos

I've been working on a series of posts with advice on using genAI in journalism - you can find the first two parts on pre-production and research here onlinejournalismblog.com/tag/CIJgenAI/ #ddj #AI

👀 Check out the latest story by Times reporter and @mybcu MA Data Journalism alumnus George Willoughby #bcujournos #ddj

🏅Check out this from Birmingham City University journalism alumni Karthik Muthuswamy's data-driven startup Explained #bcujournos #ddj

We are delighted and very excited to launch a two-year sports reporter apprenticeship for Times Sport - details on how to apply in the link below. newscareers.co.uk/vacancies/3493…

Content Ignite® The Telegraph Purple SWNS.com Financial Times And the winner of Digital Storytelling (Specialist/Regional), also sponsored by SWNS.com, is the data team The Courier and The Press and Journal for Tracking the High Street #FutureMediaAwards

🎓Want to study a PhD on misinformation? We've partnered with meedan to "explore the relationship between misinformation and election integrity & understand which forms of misinformation pose the most significant threat" ➡️ bcu.ac.uk/research/our-p…

The new chain-of-thought models in ChatGPT are like LLM design shifting from Kahnemann's thinking fast (this sequence of words sounds plausible) to thinking slow (let me work through my answer)

Data center emissions probably 662% higher than big tech claims thanks to ‘creative accounting’ #techcoup ↘️ theguardian.com/technology/202…

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👏Congratulations to Birmingham City University MA Data Journalism alumnus Barnie Choudhury on having a paper accepted for Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics. His paper looks at the portrayal of diversity in today’s BBC

Here are my notes on what I've figured out about NotebookLM's Audio Overview (aka super-weird podcast feature) so far, including notes on that existential crisis episode where the hosts realized they were AI simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/29/no…

Does Aberdeen have a vacant and derelict land problem? Ema Sabljak analysed the data going back to 2016 and discovered the amount of reported land had more than doubled. #ddj #dataviz #datajournalism

My latest post outlines some tips for using #genAI to help with scraping challenges - from writing template code and bug fixing, to helping with selectors and regular expressions. Plus: Colab's awesome autosuggest onlinejournalismblog.com/2024/10/01/usi… #ddj

New post! What are the best techniques for using genAI to review your writing? From technical tweaks and tightening your writing to identifying jargon, I go through some template prompts and key considerations onlinejournalismblog.com/2024/10/08/usi… #AI

At the #AI In Journalism pre-conference where Carol Azungi Dralega has just presented this list of LLMs in Africa

Carol Azungi Dralega Interesting how many courses at this conference on AI in journalism education have decided 'we will put AI in the data journalism module'. I'd argue genAI is no more related to data journalism than any other field

AI er partisk fordi vi er det. Her er lysbildene fra mitt plenum på Nordisk lærerkonferanse om å adressere skjevhet i journalistikk gjennom AI, inkludert eksempler og praktiske tips slideshare.net/slideshow/anti…

A byproduct of my talk at the Nordic Journalism Education Conference: the 7 angles of data journalism in Norwegian... (English version at onlinejournalismblog.com/2020/08/11/her…)