Here be neurons.* How to tame neural networks in AI models, for us, in newsrooms and in society – using our human neural networks wisely. In 2023, we entered uncharted territory. After OpenAI made ...
Christina Elmer
From September 2021, Christina Elmer is Professor for Digital Journalism and Data Journalism at TU Dortmund University, Germany. Previously she was deputy head of editorial development at DER SPIEGEL, where she had co-managed the relaunch of the digital platform and established the data journalism department. During a research sabbatical in 2021 as the first Journalist in Residence at the Cyber Valley research network, she investigated the explainability of AI methods.
Before she joined SPIEGEL ONLINE as a science editor in 2013, Elmer worked at Stern magazine’s investigative unit. Her journalistic career began in 2007 at the German press agency dpa, where she was part of a team which set up Germany’s first department for data journalism and computer assisted reporting. Elmer studied Journalism and Biology. She is a shareholder of the human rights organization AlgorithWatch and a board member of Netzwerk Recherche, Germany’s largest association supporting investigative reporters.
From drowning to surfing: how journalism can help audiences avoid information overload
“What really worries me is the fact that we all know that our media consumption is bad and addictive, but we still do it” – this authentic quote from a student in Cologne serves as an excellent ...
Our brains use plenty of short-cuts to process the complex world around us, filter relevant information and allow us to make decisions. On the one hand, a useful optimization process, this also bears ...
Our brains use plenty of short-cuts to process the complex world around us, filter relevant information and make decisions. On the one hand a useful optimisation process, this also carries some danger...
AI is everywhere: algorithms navigate us, run Uber’s dispatcher, help judges make decisions and make governments smarter. It’s time for investigative journalists to step back from the hype and hol...
The News Impact Network cookbook - 15 tasty pan-European recipes to become master chefs in leadership, newsroom transformation, and community engagement processes (and, last but not least, friends). ...
Are you curious about how data is shaping journalism? What are the latest trends in the field? The new edition of the Data Journalism Handbook (2019) is looking at new and innovative ways in which dat...
From July to December 2017 ProPublica and partners from seven countries collected political ads published on Facebook. After Russia ran a disinformation campaign on the site in 2016, the company promi...
Why algorithms will define our lives soon and what that means for the media industry
Algorithms are the new gatekeepers. They are having an impact what people know about the world, which information they see and what they do not see. This is also a challenge for journalists and media ...
From Spain to Germany, from France to Italy to Greece: data journalism lives in Europe in multiple stadia. The panel will explore the state of data-driven journalism in Europe content-wise and industr...
Some journalists approach algorithmic assistance the way one might consider hopping into a self-driving car: some are delighted, some are wary. How can software assist reporting, and how might a novic...
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