Change Up Your 2016 Election Coverage. Create a Computational Campaign.

Computational journalism — the use of computation to facilitate or even automate reporting, data and display — is showing up in more newsrooms as a highly effective tool. This session digs into three innovative computational tools — along with their challenges and implications — that journalists can play and interact with to cover the 2016 election:

• Illuminating 2016 is a web-based data visualization tool to help political journalists make sense of what the candidates are saying on social media.
• The Story Discovery Engine helps investigative reporters accelerate the process of finding new high-impact story ideas on a public affairs beat, including uncovering fraud using campaign finance data;
• the PollyBot launched in 2016 to automatically generate and publish thousands of written news stories and analyses based on forecasting data from PollyVote.com.

Speakers

Meredith Broussard

Assistant Professor, NYU

Andreas Graefe

Research Fellow

Jennifer Stromer-Galley

Professor