PhD candidate @PeopleCentredAI on local news provision and news deserts | BA Journalism + MSc Computational Social Science
Guildford, England
Joined October 2013
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Thrilled to announce my submission was accepted for the Local News Researchers Workshop 2025 at
@UNC! Excited for my 1st ever U.S. trip and connect with global researchers in this domain. I will share insights on large-scale local news text analysis.
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Cross-checked some stuff and so far so good. Could probably be used as a drafting aid when summarising particular sub-topics within the report.
Here's my (entirely unofficial) GPT for exploring the brilliant @risj_oxford Digital News Report 2024. All the usual caveats apply. Always check the original source. But GPTs can be wonderful for unlocking details in a report of this breadth and depth chatgpt.com/g/g-SIbm5DRnX-20…
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The @ejcnet at the @journalismfest🎙️ The importance of making data more accessible 📊 During the panel discussion at #Ijf24 on #DataJournalism @tarakelly and @larsboering illustrated the latest findings from the Data Journalism Survey.
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Sharing again thus Kahneman lecture, if you haven't read it, on the "15 point IQ gain", as he puts it, when people are defending their views against potentially contrary evidence.
Today we’ve lost a giant and a visionary: Prof. Daniel Kahneman has passed at the age of 90. The Princeton SPIA community shares our condolences with his family and all who knew him, learned from him, and loved him. bit.ly/4cy0arM
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7/ Local news is the hardest hit, and local is how people form an initial relationship with journalists and journalism— or don't. TV viewers still develop bonds with local anchors. But TV newsrooms lean heavily on the local newspaper's reporting, and that is where the crisis is.
survey analysis: you have a small, yet variable number of NAs (non response) throughout. You want to report a question's answers proportions. Do you usually calculate the % as shares of survey respondents, or do subtract NAs from the denominator? #survey #rstats #DataAnalytics
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🔔 Final reminder! 🔔
⌛️ Tomorrow marks the end of your opportunity to WIN a trip to @journalismfest in Perugia!
Be a part of shaping the future initiatives in the #ddj community. Complete our survey now and secure your chance!
Don't wait: ⤵️
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I am looking for data on local election turnout in England. Is data more recent than 2017 publicly available? I could only find a csv sheet from 2017 by @ElectoralCommUK
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1/4🧵🎉Just published a new article in MDPI's Journalism and Media with @Bahareh360: mdpi.com/2600256
We dissect and quantify the limitations of print/digital local news outlets datasets in the UK + we advance research by supplying a new, outperforming dataset. In detail:
4/4🧵To help, we build a framework to create an independent research dataset that overcomes the observed deficiencies of public datasets. With it, we build a new dataset that outperforms in accuracy, offering a valuable research tool in local news studies in the UK.
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And we are back! The @ejcnet and @datajournalism State of Data Journalism 2023 is faster and fresher than ever before⚡️, but also consistent with previous eds throughout so that we can analyse these important longitudinal trends📉~15mins to complete⌛️and ~1 month to take it🗓️!
👀 Did you see that our State of Data Journalism Survey 2023 is now live and waiting for your input?
Listen to @BisianiSimona, our team’s survey wizard, to hear why you should contribute and how you can win a trip to @journalismfest!
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OS Data Scientist, Tom Peterken maps the longest line of sight ever photographed at 483.5km across northern Argentina for Day 2 of #30DayMapChallenge - Lines.
Lots of gems in the new 💿 Volcano 🌋 by @jungle4eva! looking forward to groove to it at All Points East
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It’s hard to know which local news outlets exist in the UK. A key struggle is the lack of clarity by publishers on which print titles match online sites, making it easy to think a paper has closed or simply missing out on its existence publicinterestnews.org.uk/po…
Reach is okay, you can sometimes tell from the About me page, but Newsquest and National world are really hard to navigate
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well done @PINewsF on the map and directory, and for outlining some of the challenges of maintaining the data and analysing it!
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already downloaded loads of artworks. They are really cool! Love the track ❤️
The fourth and final single from Volcano 'Back On 74' is out now! Shout out Lydia Kitto who wrote and recorded this one with us. The video drop, powered by @WeTransfer, incorporates a first-of-its-kind interactive element. junglejunglejungle.wetransfe…
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