BU joins elite group powering media innovation
Times of Bennett | Updated: Apr 18, 2021 11:49
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Research Questions
The Research Question that Bennett University has framed for the APAC region is “How might we use AI and audience insights to help newsrooms design more relevant and interactive news narratives?”
Building on previous work developed by the Times School of Media in collaboration with the Computer Science Engineering Department at Bennett University, the team will devise innovative storytelling methods to reach hitherto unreached audiences by extracting insights from datasets and social networks.
The research question framed by Knight Lab, Medill School of Journalism, is “How might we use AI technologies to innovate newsgathering and investigative reporting techniques?” Building on the experiences of Knight Lab, the team will explore opportunities for using methods such as entity extraction, knowledge management, computer vision and image analysis to help journalists work through data and derive insights for deep, rich storytelling. This team will focus on democratising these techniques for newsrooms and journalists of varying technical aptitude.
The research question framed by BBC Labs and Clwstwr is “How might we use modular journalism and
Media organisations in the Asia Pacific interested in participating in the challenge should send a mail to Lakshmi at lakshmi@journalismai.info with the subject line “APAC Collab Challenge”. Applications close on April 30 at 11:59pm GMT.
