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The 2022 Computation + Journalism (C+J) Symposium was held in-person at Columbia University and online, June 9-11 . The proceedings are now available with links to PDFs of the referred submissions. I virtually attended several of the sessions on Thursday and Friday, but unfortunately missed the Saturday sessions. A full hybrid session in motion… #cj2022 pic.twitter.com/WhPE7kL6x9 — Bahareh Heravi (@Bahareh360) June 10, 2022 After the success of the fully online C+J 2021, the organizers again used the ohyay.co platform for the online attendees and speakers. In general it worked great again. My only complaint is that the speakers' slides were sometimes too small because of the space given to speaker and panel video and other decorative elements (or maybe it was just too small to view on my laptop screen). Most of the sessions were parallel, so like last year , I had a little trouble deciding which sessions to attend; they all contained interesting work. I didn't ta...

One year ago, I was eagerly anticipating a trip to Boston in mid-March to attend the Computation + Journalism (C+J) Symposium 2020 hosted by Northeastern University.  Our PhD student Alexander Nwala would be presenting a poster on his Storygraph work, and I was especially looking forward to the keynote addresses, in particular one from Amanda Cox, whose work I've highlighted in my Information Visualization courses for several years. Unfortunately, this was the first of several conferences for me to be impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.  So, I was thrilled that the organizers decided to revive the 2020 program as a virtual symposium this year ( program and schedule ). Videos are promised, and I'll update this post when that's available.  [5/7/21: Recordings of the keynote speakers and panels are now available!] Some statistics from Computation+Journalism 2021 - A total of 879 people attended at least some part of the day, with a maximum of 415 people at any one tim...

At the Internet Archive, it was rainy in San Francisco, but that did not deter those of us attending Dodging the Memory Hole 2017 . We engaged in discussions about a very important topic: the preservation of online news content. An attendee listens to a presentation at the @RJI Dodging the Memory Hole conference in San Francisco. #DTMH2017 pic.twitter.com/2ajM1k06Ru — RJI Futures Lab (@RJIFuturesLab) November 16, 2017 Keynote: Brewster Kahle, founder and digital librarian for the Internet Archive "Let's become a library. Let's be useful to society to understand ourselves." ― @brewster_kahle #DTMH2017 pic.twitter.com/rg7hMqWBdI — JDNA (@RJIJDNA) November 15, 2017 Brewster Kahle is well known in digital preservation and especially web archiving circles. He founded the Internet Archive in May 1996 . The WS-DL and LANL's Prototyping Team collaborate heavily with those from the Internet Archive, so hearing his talk was quite inspirational. ...

Screenshots of world local newspapers from the Local Memory Project 's local news repository. Top: newspapers from Iraq, Nigeria, and France. Bottom: Chile, US (Alaska), and Australia. Soon after the introduction of the Local Memory Project  (LMP) and the local news repository of: 5,992 US Newspapers 1,061 US TV stations, and 2,539 US Radio stations I considered extending the local news collection beyond US local media to include newspapers from around the world. Finding and generating the world local newspaper dataset After a sustained search, I narrowed my list of potential sources of world local news media to the following in order of my perceived usefulness: Paperboy Online Newspapers | US & World Newspapers The Keele Guide to Media on the Internet Online Newspaper Directory for the World Hot Newspapers ABYZ News Links Radio locator Radio Station World Refdesk: NEWSPAPERS - USA AND WORLDWIDE Newspapermap List of Newspapers Allafrica Inte...