The public-interest journalism on which democracy depends is under enormous financial and technological pressure. Computer scientists help journalists deal with these pressures by developing new interfaces, indexing algorithms and data extraction techniques.

October 26th, 2011

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The public-interest journalism on which democracy depends is under enormous financial and technological pressure.

Computer scientists help journalists deal with these pressures by developing new interfaces, indexing algorithms and data extraction techniques.

Head over to Communications of the ACM to read “how computer scientists can empower journalists, democracy’s watchdogs, in the production of news in the public interest” in their article on Computational Journalism.

(Source: cacm.acm.org)

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