After a first semester studying the fundamentals of computing and journalism, our students spend the second and third semesters on applied computational journalism. These are produced in teams (semester 2) or as individual stories and projects (semester 3).
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Soundbath Britain collected rain data from across the UK and produced a sonification map of the country’s rainfall.
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Fires in listed buildings investigated the number of supposedly protected buildings (‘listed’ buildings) that regularly catch fire.
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What’s news? adapted the Connections game from the NY Times to produce a daily news quiz.
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Investigating Boris ‘Teflon’ Johnson’s reputation investigated press headlines about Boris Johnson and his popularity ratings to see if there was any relationship between the two.
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Behind the numbers: Why the EU looks like it’s meeting climate targets investigated EU climate targets. What are they and what does it mean when they are “being met”?
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Equiquote (requires a password) is a platform that reviews a journalist’s copy and establishes how many men and women are being quoted. It will note if there is an imbalance and make suggestions for other speakers to help correct the imbalance.