Charles Berret to Give 11/16 Wed@Hariri Lecture
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM on Wednesday, November 16, 2016
Hariri Institute for Computing
111 Cummington Mall, Room 180
In collaboration with the Department of Journalism (COM) and the Storytelling with Data workshop, the Hariri Institute for Computing will be hosting Charles Berret (PhD candidate, Columbia Journalism School) for a Wednesday@Hariri seminar.
Data, Computation and Journalism: Skills to Innovate in a Changing Media Landscape
Charles Berret
PhD candidate, Columbia Journalism School
Abstract: Are journalism schools preparing the next generation of reporters to use data and computational techniques to find and tell stories in the public interest?
This talk will cover the results of a nationwide study examining which digital skills are being taught at American journalism schools. It will also include an overview of some of the best work being done by journalists using data and computation today, as well as the promise of interdisciplinary collaboration for advancing journalistic practice.
About the Speaker: Charles Berret is a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia Journalism School and a fellow at the Brown Institute for Media Innovation, an avid programmer and a trained media historian, who co-authored “Teaching Data and Computational Journalism,” a study funded by the Knight Foundation to assess the state of instruction in quantitative reporting methods and emerging media at American journalism schools.