Computation + Journalism Symposium 2015
From the webpage:
Data and computation drive our world, often without sufficient critical assessment or accountability. Journalism is adapting responsibly—finding and creating new kinds of stories that respond directly to our new societal condition. Join us for a two-day conference exploring the interface between journalism and computing.
Papers are up! Papers are up!
http://cj2015.brown.columbia.edu/papers.html
Many excellent papers but one caught my eye in particular:
DeScipher: A Text Simplification Tool for Science Journalism, Yea Seul Kim, Jessica Hullman and Eytan Adar.
High on my reading list after spending a day with “almost” explanations in technical documentation.
This could be very useful for anyone authoring useful technical documentation, not to mention writing for the general public.