Artificial intelligence in journalism is no longer an imagined future -- newsrooms around the globe (mostly large) are using automation, algorithms and machine learning to break news, improve producti...
John Keefe
John Keefe is the investigations editor at Quartz and leads the Quartz AI Studio. Keefe also teaches classes on product prototyping, design, and development at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York. Before joining Quartz, he was Senior Editor for Data News at public radio station WNYC, leading a team of journalists who specialize in data reporting, coding, and design for visualizations and investigations. Keefe also was WNYC's news director for nearly a decade.
A self-described "professional beginner," Keefe is the author of Family Projects for Smart Objects: Tabletop Projects That Respond to Your World from Maker Media, which grew from his effort to make something new every week for a year. Keefe has led classes and workshops at Columbia University, Stanford University, the New School University, and New York University. He also served as an Innovator in Residence at West Virginia University's Reed College of Media.
More and more newsrooms are using advanced techniques like machine learning and AI to get or tell stories. In this demo, John Keefe of Quartz will help you understand how, when and where these techniq...