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Prof. Nicholas Diakopoulos

Work Package Advisor

Northwestern University
Nicholas Diakopoulos is an Associate Professor in Communication Studies and Computer Science (by courtesy) at Northwestern University where he is Director of the Computational Journalism Lab (CJL) and Director of Graduate Studies for the Technology and Social Behavior (TSB) PhD program. Diakopoulos’ research is in computational journalism with active research projects on (1) algorithmic accountability and transparency, (2) automation and algorithms in news production, and (3) social media in news contexts. He is the author of the award-winning book Automating the News: How Algorithms are Rewriting the Media from Harvard University Press. For some of his latest thinking and writing on automation and algorithms in journalism see his column in the Columbia Journalism Review.

2024

Opdahl, Andreas L.; Helberger, Natali; Diakopoulos, Nicholas

Guest Editorial: AI and the news Journal Article

In: AI Magazine, 2024.

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Diakopoulos, Nicholas; Trattner, Christoph; Jannach, Dietmar; Meijer, Irene Costera; Motta, Enrico

Leveraging Professional Ethics for Responsible AI: Applying AI techniques to journalism. Journal Article

In: Communications of the ACM, 2024.

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2021

Trattner, Christoph; Jannach, Dietmar; Motta, Enrico; Meijer, Irene Costera; Diakopoulos, Nicholas; Elahi, Mehdi; Opdahl, Andreas L.; Tessem, Bjørnar; Borch, Njål; Fjeld, Morten; Øvrelid, Lilja; Smedt, Koenraad De; Moe, Hallvard

Responsible media technology and AI: challenges and research directions Journal Article

In: AI and Ethics, 2021.

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