When a 2019 video went viral after being edited to make House Speaker Nancy Pelosi look inebriated, it took 32 hours for one of Facebook’s independent fact-checking partners to rate the clip fa...
https://reporterslab.org/mediareview-a-next-step-in-solving-the-misinformation-crisis/
The Duke Reporters’ Lab is launching the next phase of development of MediaReview, a tagging system that fact-checkers can use to identify whether a video or image has been manipulated. Conceiv...
https://reporterslab.org/mediareview-testing-expands-to-a-global-userbase/
The homepage said Licho Escamilla was scheduled to die in seven hours and 16 minutes. Escamilla, convicted for killing a Dallas police officer, was featured last week on The Next to Die, a struct...
https://reporterslab.org/the-powerful-structured-approach-of-the-next-to-die/
Two projects from the Duke Reporters’ Lab were featured at the 2015 Computation + Journalism Symposium, which was held over the weekend at Columbia University in New York. The two-day conferenc...
https://reporterslab.org/lab-projects-featured-at-computation-journalism-conference/
Field notes by the Structured Stories NYC team: Ishan Thakore, Natalie Ritchie and Rachel Chason. When Bill visited our New York office last week, we talked about how the project was going and,...
https://reporterslab.org/week-6-of-structured-stories-could-we-do-this-from-a-warehouse-in-durham/
Field notes from the Structured Stories NYC staff: Ishan Thakore, Natalie Ritchie and Rachel Chason. Ishan: A few weeks ago I stopped by a City Council meeting for some context on New York City�...
https://reporterslab.org/week-5-of-structured-stories-nyc-the-pros-and-cons-of-leaving-the-office/
At the halfway mark in our eight-week Structured Stories project on Friday, Natalie, Ishan and I decided to measure our performance. By the numbers, we’ve made substantial progress — we’ve ...
https://reporterslab.org/week-4-of-structured-stories-nyc-thinking-like-structured-journalists/
There’s a particular anxiety that hits me whenever someone asks me to explain what I’m doing this summer. I fumble through an answer with phrases like “news database” and “knowledge gra...
We hit the ground running last week, eager to begin constructing structured stories on our topics. I Googled everything I could about “NYC Housing” and was quickly overwhelmed. For some cont...
https://reporterslab.org/structured-stories-week-2-nouns-verbs-and-learning-to-write-again/
On Wednesday, as our Structured Stories NYC team debated whether to use “text object” or “information artifact” to describe a field in our database, I realized we were in new journalistic...