Data-driven journalism for the future
Data-driven journalism is here to stay – and AI tools are only getting better and better. Måns Magnusson, researcher in machine learning and statistics, monitors developments in this area with interest.
Magnusson is a researcher at the Department of Statistics at Uppsala University. In 2016, he co-founded the data-driven news agency Newsworthy. Its business idea is to process and analyse large amounts of data and break it down municipality by municipality or county by county. News items and ideas are then sold as a service to local newspapers.
“Last year, Newsworthy broke down the climate budget, showing how much carbon dioxide was released at the municipal level and what that meant for different areas of Sweden. It had quite an impact in the local newspapers.”
Data-driven journalism for the future, read the news item at Uppsala University’s web.