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Title:

Computational Journalism

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Organizer:
Brad Stenger, Wired
Description:
Most every Web 2.0 tool is conceivably a journalist's tool. It’s true for back-office content management and production, and for public-facing interfaces and media. Contemporary journalism is a place for informed, creative, technical people. Career and entrepreneurial opportunities abound, if you know where to look.
Questions
Answered:
  1. What is Computational Journalism?
  2. Can anyone be a Computational Journalist?
  3. I've heard about something called Computer-Assisted Reporting. Is that Computational Journalism?
  4. How does a person go from journalist to Computational Journalist?
  5. How does a person go from computer programmer to Computational Journalist?
  6. Are there freelance Computational Journalists?
  7. What are some of the cool things Computational Journalists have built?
  8. Who are the best role models, use cases, and business models of Computational Journalism?
  9. I'm interested in Computational Journalism. Who'll hire me?
  10. I'm an entrepreneur or investor. What's the outlook for startups in Computational Journalism?
Level:
Advanced
Category:
Content
Type:
Solo
Event:
SXSW Interactive 2009
on 17/8/08
Sounds good. Can you clue us into details or examples you're likely to cover?
on 22/8/08
Sure, happy to. Last week at the big Siggraph meeting in Los Angeles, a couple professors (Georgia Tech, Berkeley, Stanford) plus some newspeople (Current, Los Angeles Times), and I ran a meeting with the meeting on Computational Journalism. Lots of good stuff there.

The url: http://www.computational-journalism.com/symposium/index.php
on 26/3/09
Sound awesome
on 28/4/09
Awesome
on 5/5/09
Great information
Awesome
on 13/11/09
So looking forward to this..
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