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Nicholas Diakopoulos

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Nicholas Diakopoulos is an expert on computational and data journalism. He is the director of the Computational Journalism Lab (CJL) and an assistant professor in the School of Communication at Northwestern University and is also a Tow Fellow at <a class="external" href="https://journalism.columbia.edu/">Columbia Jou</a>r<a class="external" href="https://journalism.columbia.edu/">nalism School</a>. He is the author of "A<a href="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674976986&content=bios" target="_blank" rel="noopener">utomating the News: How Algorithms are Rewriting the Media</a>" (Harvard University Press, 2019).

Agents for Good: How Bots Can Boost Accountability Journalism

Agents for Good: How Bots Can Boost Accountability Journalism

Nicholas Diakopoulos, director of Northwestern University’s Computational Journalism Lab, is optimistic about the role algorithms can play in the media, but he acknowledges that ensuring their ethical use will require…