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  Lab , projects | Oct 6, 2023

  A Big Change That Will Probably Affect Your Storymaps

  by Joe Germuska | joegermuska

  A big change is coming to StoryMapJS, and it will affect many, if not most existing storymaps. When making a storymap, one way to set a style and tone for your project is to set the "map type," also known as the "basemap." When we launched StoryMapJS, it included options for a few basemaps created by Stamen Design. These included the "watercolor" style, as well as the default style for new storymaps, "Toner Lite." Stamen...

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  People | Jan 31, 2023

  Introducing AmyJo Brown, Knight Lab Professional Fellow

  AmyJo Brown, a veteran journalist passionate about supporting and reshaping local political journalism and who it engages, has joined the Knight Lab as a 2022-2023 professional fellow. Her focus is on building The Public Ledger, a data tool structured from local campaign finance data that is designed to track connections and make local political relationships – and their influence – more visible. “Campaign finance data has more stories to tell – if we follow the...

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  Ideas | May 31, 2022

  Interactive Entertainment: How UX Design Shapes Streaming Platforms

  by Max Johnson

  As streaming develops into the latest age of entertainment, how are interfaces and layouts being designed to prioritize user experience and accessibility? The Covid-19 pandemic accelerated streaming services becoming the dominant form of entertainment. There are a handful of new platforms, each with thousands of hours of content, but not much change or differentiation in the user journeys. For the most part, everywhere from Netflix to illegal streaming platforms use similar video streaming UX standards, and...

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  Lab projects | Dec 13, 2021

  Innovation with collaborationExperimenting with AI and investigative journalism in the Americas.

  by Mago Torres | magiccia

  Lee este artículo en español. How might we use AI technologies to innovate newsgathering and investigative reporting techniques? This was the question we posed to a group of seven newsrooms in Latin America and the US as part of the Americas Cohort during the 2021 JournalismAI Collab Challenges. The Collab is an initiative that brings together media organizations to experiment with AI technologies and journalism. This year,  JournalismAI, a project of Polis, the journalism think-tank at...

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  Lab projects , En Español | Dec 13, 2021

  Innovación con colaboraciónCuando el periodismo de investigación experimenta con inteligencia artificial.

  by Mago Torres | magiccia

  Read this article in English. ¿Cómo podemos usar la inteligencia artificial para innovar las técnicas de reporteo y de periodismo de investigación? Esta es la pregunta que convocó a un grupo de siete organizaciones periodísticas en América Latina y Estados Unidos, el grupo de las Américas del 2021 JournalismAI Collab Challenges. Esta iniciativa de colaboración reúne a medios para experimentar con inteligencia artificial y periodismo. Este año, JournalismAI, un proyecto de Polis, la think-tank de periodismo...

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  Studio | Journalism AI Readiness Scorecard

  AI, Automation, and Newsrooms: Finding Fitting Tools for Your Organization

  by Hannah Barton , Helen Bradshaw , Joshua Hoeflich , Grace Lee , Sammie Pyo

  If you’d like to use technology to make your newsroom more efficient, you’ve come to the right place. Tools exist that can help you find news, manage your work in progress, and distribute your content more effectively than ever before, and we’re here to help you find the ones that are right for you. As part of the Knight Foundation’s AI for Local News program, we worked with the Associated Press to interview dozens of......

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