Computational Journalism Watch

Coverage of AI ethics, newsroom tooling, and investigative data practices.

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Simon Calder: The Jack Reacher of travel journalism

Simon Calder pictured in Armenia. Credit: Charlotte Hindle The Telegraph’s new travel correspondent is known in my house as “Simon Available” because you can count on him popping up on radio and TV …

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Tracing Digital Links Between Viory and Ruptly

“In the age of misinformation, the line between fact and fiction is blurrier than ever.” “For those of us working in video news, verification isn’t a nice-to-have. It’s a necessity. It is how we …

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Publishing in a warzone at Lebanon’s L’Orient-Le Jour

Destruction in the Dahyeh suburb of Beiruit, Lebanon on 6 March 2026. Picture: Shutterstock/madhdi313 French-language Lebanese newspaper L’Orient-Le Jour has seen a 9% increase in subscriptions since …

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AI licensing coalition SPUR in huge expansion

SPUR logo AI news licensing standards coalition SPUR has added almost 20 publisher members in a major international expansion of its work. SPUR (the Standards for Publisher Usage Rights coalition) …

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Data by hand: Analog datavis & self-reflection

There’s no shortage of digital tools to track, analyze, and visualize data. In newsrooms, we often lean on Datawrapper, Excel, R, Python, or other high-powered and occasionally automated workflows. …