Free Online Workshop: Technology and AI to Counter Disinformation
DW Innovation project WeVerify will host a two day virtual event dedicated to research, tools, and concepts in the domain of digital content verification.
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“It’s a great time to be involved in data-driven journalism” – An Interview with EDJNet’s Chiara Sighele and Lorenzo Ferrari
The European Data Journalism Network (EDJNet), set up in 2017, is all about “producing and promoting data-driven coverage of European topics”. As of May 2021, it has 29 members (including DW) in 14 different countries, and the EC has just granted a new round of funding. Time for a chat with Chiara Sighele and Lorenzo Ferrari, staff members of the Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa (OBCT), but first and foremost: the main coordinators of EDJNet.
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MONITIO: Building A New Generation of AI-powered Media Monitoring Tools
Human language technology (HLT), multilingual media monitoring, and data visualization have become focus topics at DW Innovation. A couple of months ago, we helped kick-off yet another project in that field of work: MONITIO.
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KID Project: DW Innovation Releases Toolbox for Verification and Fact-checking Rookies
DW’s KID project has high ambitions: It aims for better verification through AI-supported Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) tools. But it also wants to increase media and information literacy (MIL) among young media users and aspiring journalists. In the scope of this mission, KID has now released a “verification toolbox”.
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Data-driven Journalism for Social Media: Creating the Right Post for Every Platform and Occasion
How can social media be more than just an afterthought for data-driven journalism (DDJ)? As a partner of the European Data Journalism Network (EDJN), our colleagues at DW Data have been exploring ways to attract readers and make DDJ stories more interesting on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube. Here is a guest post with new insights by Kira Schacht.
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CALLISTO: Getting more out of Earth Observation Data
DW Innovation has joined a new, large-scale H2020 project that aims to bridge the gap between Copernicus DIAS providers and users of next-level digital applications.
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Better AV, Betters DBs, Cloud and Edge and Social Sounds: 5 More Media Technologies That Caught Our Attention
It has been a while since we last compiled a list of interesting media technologies for you – check out this post that aged rather well – but of course tech scouting is still important to us. And now that a number of new projects have been successfully kicked-off in spite of the pandemic, we actually found the time to sit down, review some internal notes – and introduce some more tools and concepts that we think could have an impact on our industry.
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XR4DAMA: Extended Reality For Disaster Management And Media Planning
DW and a group of European partners in tech and academia have started building a new digital platform that will help improve situation awareness.
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You Draw It AR: Instagram Face Filters for Data-Driven Journalism
If you are into DDJ, you have probably come across the NYT’s You Draw It series, where users have to draw the second half of a graph and thus interact with a data story. We have always liked this idea. And we thought that by adding augmented reality (AR) and Instagram face filters, we could develop it further. Our aim: Creating a new worthwhile form of interactive journalism – and great shareable content. Here is a quick recap of our Insta experiments, including the lessons we have learned.
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SELMA – Shaping AI speech and text technologies for media and the newsroom
Good news: We have kicked off yet another exciting human language technology (HLT) project. It is an EU-funded research and innovation action (RIA) called SELMA, which stands for: Stream Learning for Multilingual Knowledge Transfer.
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