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News

How COVID-19 metrics became a valuable form of journalism during the pandemic: insights from a Norwegian study

Feb 21, 2023

Regular and frequent updates on the infection rates was the journalistic content most sought by news users during the COVID-19 pandemic. In their latest study, researchers John Magnus Dahl and Brita Ytre-Arne delve into the question of why close monitoring of such numbers appeared meaningful, and what these experiences can tell us about the role of journalism during global crises such as the pandemic.

The Generative AI in the Newsroom Challenge

Feb 10, 2023

Interested in experimenting with generative AI in news domain? If so, a challenge designed by Associate Professor Nicholas Diakopoulos may be for you.

Visual user-generated content verification in journalism: an overview

Feb 6, 2023

In their latest publication, MediaFutures researchers present a detailed analysis of journalistic process for visual content verification and provide an overview of available tools employed by the media industry in assessing the veracity of user-generated content.

In the Media: Journalisten.no reports on new prototypes of AI tools developed by MediaFutures’ PhD candidate Sohail Ahmed Khan in collaboration with Faktisk.no

Feb 2, 2023

The first prototype is a deep learning-based military vehicle classification web prototype which can predict the make/model of a military vehicle present in an image. The second prototype is a language detection, transcription and translation web service based on OpenAI’s Whisper model.