Jeremy Gilbert

Knight Chair in Digital Media Strategy, Medill

Jeremy explores the intersection of technology, journalism and media strategy. Formerly of Washington Post, National Geographic and Poynter among others.

Projects

Studio Projects Jeremy Gilbert has worked on.

Journalism AI Readiness Scorecard

Artificial intelligence (AI) drives innovation at news organizations around the world. Journalists use algorithms to find patterns in data to inform investigations and identify breaking news. Automation enables more efficient news production. AI helps drive subscriptions and personalize news for consumers. Yet AI advantages are largely limited to larger, national and international media. Many small, locally focused newsrooms lack the resources and skills to understand the potential of AI and are afraid to commit to...

Journalistic Diversity Dashboard

In recent years, much attention has been drawn to the social and cultural identities of journalists, and the ways in which those identities are often quite different from those of the audiences those journalists cover. From race and gender to education level and economic class, audiences and even the news organizations are looking for data to help them put stories into perspective. For this project, students will focus on the design of a system which...

Exploring AI-Powered Local Newsrooms

Generative AI is transforming all kinds of industries, including local news. Newsrooms need to know what tools to trust, how best to use them, and what they might cost. Automation can aid writers, create images, detect patterns in data, identify potential news events, promote content, convert articles to email newsletters and much more. Local news needs a playbook for automation.

Follow the Money

Each year, political campaigns break records for money raised and spent. Where does all that money come from? Who’s giving it? What are their interests in supporting any given candidate? Researching these questions has become a key part of national political coverage, and between the Federal Election Commission and various public interest organizations, basic access to campaign finance data is well understood. Things are much different for state and local elections. Reporting regulations vary considerably...

Tinder for Freelancers

Freelance journalists struggle to connect with editors, land assignments and establish steady cash flow. Meanwhile, news organizations need freelancers with diverse experiences and subject matter expertise to contribute a broad array of articles, photographs and other content. The Center for Independent Journalists (The CIJ) launched in September 2021 aiming to bridge the gap between these groups by providing support, community, education, tools and advocacy to freelancers and by offering editors access to a diverse group...

Design Research in Local Newsrooms

It’s hard to run a local news organization. Advertising dollars have been siphoned away by social media platforms; audiences have many more choices of where to spend their attention and their money. These times call for creative thinking and reassessment of how local news organizations spend their energy and money.

Metaverse Media

A year ago, the word “metaverse” was just a concept from a classic Science Fiction novel, but since then, it has leapt into the public conversation. But what does “metaverse” really mean? And how might the metaverse (or some metaverses) impact, or provide opportunities for journalism?

The Partisanship Detector

Do the words journalists choose reveal unconscious political biases or create/reinforce similar biases? The 2016 and 2020 presidential elections made vicious and fierce rhetoric the norm and strong political identification a fact of life. The accusations of “fake news” and bias ring loudly, destroying the perception of a free and fair press and posing a threat to democracy. The challenge for this project is to develop a human-centered process and natural language processing tools to...