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Pedro Gonçalves

Can Artificial Intelligence Like IBM's Watson Do Investigative Journalism? ⚙ ... - 0 views

  • Two years ago, the two greatest Jeopardy champions of all time got obliterated by a computer called Watson. It was a great victory for artificial intelligence--the system racked up more than three times the earnings of its next meat-brained competitor. For IBM’s Watson, the successor to Deep Blue, which famously defeated chess champion Gary Kasparov, becoming a Jeopardy champion was a modest proof of concept. The big challenge for Watson, and the goal for IBM, is to adapt the core question-answering technology to more significant domains, like health care. WatsonPaths, IBM’s medical-domain offshoot announced last month, is able to derive medical diagnoses from a description of symptoms. From this chain of evidence, it’s able to present an interactive visualization to doctors, who can interrogate the data, further question the evidence, and better understand the situation. It’s an essential feedback loop used by diagnosticians to help decide which information is extraneous and which is essential, thus making it possible to home in on a most-likely diagnosis. WatsonPaths scours millions of unstructured texts, like medical textbooks, dictionaries, and clinical guidelines, to develop a set of ranked hypotheses. The doctors’ feedback is added back into the brute-force information retrieval capabilities to help further train the system.
  • For Watson, ingesting all 2.5 million unstructured documents is the easy part. For this, it would extract references to real-world entities, like corporations and people, and start looking for relationships between them, essentially building up context around each entity. This could be connected out to open-entity databases like Freebase, to provide even more context. A journalist might orient the system’s “attention” by indicating which politicians or tax-dodging tycoons might be of most interest. Other texts, like relevant legal codes in the target jurisdiction or news reports mentioning the entities of interest, could also be ingested and parsed. Watson would then draw on its domain-adapted logic to generate evidence, like “IF corporation A is associated with offshore tax-free account B, AND the owner of corporation A is married to an executive of corporation C, THEN add a tiny bit of inference of tax evasion by corporation C.” There would be many of these types of rules, perhaps hundreds, and probably written by the journalists themselves to help the system identify meaningful and newsworthy relationships. Other rules might be garnered from common sense reasoning databases, like MIT’s ConceptNet. At the end of the day (or probably just a few seconds later), Watson would spit out 100 leads for reporters to follow. The first step would be to peer behind those leads to see the relevant evidence, rate its accuracy, and further train the algorithm. Sure, those follow-ups might still take months, but it wouldn’t be hard to beat the 15 months the ICIJ took in its investigation.
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What the Oregonian's new web strategy gets right and what it gets wrong about online me... - 0 views

  • What’s the worst thing about the Oregonian‘s strategy? For me, it’s the singular focus on pageview growth as a measurement of performance.
  • I would much rather that the Oregonian and other papers focused on something approaching engagement metrics instead of pageviews, whether it’s through the kind of approach that Forbes takes — in which returning visitors are seen as 10 times as valuable as first-time readers — or some other measurement that shows whether reporters are building long-term relationships with their audience.
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The Washington Post Borrows from Editorial Side for Native Ads | Adweek - 0 views

  • The Washington Post. Its native ad program, WP BrandConnect, is adopting the multimedia, longform template that’s been used in the newsroom for features like this one. 
  • This isn't the first time the sales side has peeked over the proverbial Chinese wall to get inspiration from the editorial side. The New York Times has done it via its Idea Lab. The Post has an Ad Innovations team that sits in the marketing group but looks for inspiration in the newsroom. 
  • Publishers have been slow to migrate their native ads to mobile devices, despite native being seen as the solution to ineffective and poorly paying display advertising on mobiles. Nearly half of the Post’s online traffic comes from mobile devices
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  • The New York Times, for another, launched a new native ad unit on its desktop site in January, but a rep said it’s not expected to roll out on mobile for another few months.
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Behind the paywall: lessons from US newspapers | Media Network | Guardian Professional - 0 views

  • Some of the newspapers which have fared the best after implementing an online paywall are those based in smaller markets.
  • The print circulations of specialised publications has also proven to be fairly resilient when compared to the industry as a whole, likely due to the nature of the content that is being offered.
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"A Internet pode ajudar o jornalismo a ser mais profundo e mais sério" - PÚBLICO - 0 views

  • “A brevidade [dos artigos] não importa”, continua. “Quando se diz que o jornalismo online deve ser feito com textos curtos, é com base na ideia de que é desconfortável ler textos longos no computador. Mas já é mais confortável no iPad. E ainda mais no Kindle.”
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The Social Media Editor is Dead - 0 views

  • “Social media can’t belong to one person,” Preston said at the time. “It needs to be part of everyone’s job. It has to be integrated into the existing editorial process and production process.”
  • The downside of concentrating an audience in people instead of properties is that the former can change horses. After taking a buyout from the Times , Jim Roberts brought his nearly 100,000 followers to Reuters, flipping his handle from @nytjim to @nycjim.
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Facebook Wants To Fill Your News Feed With Actual News - ReadWrite - 0 views

  • Today Facebook announced an update to its news feed ranking that emphasizes shared news posts over memes and similar airy material that's often shared on the social network.
  • Facebook’s push to incorporate more news into timelines could be a response to Twitter’s success as a news platform. According to Pew Research, Facebook still has some catching up to do—only 47 percent of Facebook’s total users get their news on the site, compared to 52 percent of users on Twitter.
  • Facebook says people prefer “high quality content” over popular memes, so the company is putting an emphasis on tracking how frequently articles are clicked on from news feed on mobile to deliver more relevant posts.
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  • The move represents Facebook's latest push to eliminate “low quality” posts from users’ news feeds. In August, the company announced a similar algorithm update to encourage the managers of Facebook pages to post less junky material and to provide users with better-targeted updates.
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STUDY: Facebook's Role In Pew Research Center's 'State Of The News Media 2014' - AllFac... - 0 views

  • 50 percent of social network users share or repost news stories, images, or videos, while 46 percent discuss news or current events on their networks, and 11 percent have submitted their own content to news websites or blogs. Pew reiterated its findings from a report earlier this month that Internet users who arrive at the 26 news websites it analyzed by directly typing in those sites’ URLs or via bookmarks spend far more time on those sites, view more pages, and return more times per month that Internet users who arrive via Facebook.
  • 78 percent of Facebook users see news while they are on the social network for other reasons. Only 34 percent of Facebook news consumers like news organizations or individual journalists, which Pew interprets to mean that most of the news they see on the social network is shared by their friends. Facebook news consumers reported seeing entertainment news the most, followed by “people and events in my community,” sports, national government/politics, crime, health/medicine, and local government/politics. News consumers on LinkedIn were high earners and college-educated, while those from Twitter were younger than those from Facebook, Google Plus, and LinkedIn.
  • One-half of Facebook users get news there even though they did not go there looking for it. And the Facebook users who get news at the highest rates are 18- to-29-year-olds.
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Jovens mais dispostos a pagar conteúdos digitais - 0 views

  • Os jovens estão duas vezes mais dispostos a pagar por conteúdos digitais do que os leitores mais velhos, de acordo com o Digital News Report 2013
  • 20 por cento dos leitores entre os 25 e os 34 anos estão disponíveis para pagar notícias em suportes digitais, por comparação com 10 por cento dos indivíduos com mais de 55 anos.
  • apenas cinco por cento dos inquiridos disse ter pago por informação digital na semana anterior ao inquérito, contra metade que havia comprado um jornal impresso no mesmo período
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  • Embora a base seja baixa, cresceu o número de pessoas disponível a pagar notícias em suportes digitais face ao inquérito anterior
  • Nos Estados Unidos são os utilizadores de tablets e smartphones os que estão mais recetivos ao pagamento de conteúdos – são quase o dobro dos que apresentam a mesma disposição mas não usam aqueles gadgets.
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