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Bringing Data-Driven Rigor to Journalism
The speaker discussed his experience in integrating data into journalism to enhance trust in news by showcasing evidence. He highlighted his journey from traditional newsrooms to founding a nonpartisan newsroom focused on data-driven journalism. He emphasized the challenges of making data collection central in newsrooms, compared to the traditional model of data teams working like service desks. The speaker detailed an investigation on generative AI in the presidential election to test AI models' accuracy in answering common voter questions, revealing their high inaccuracy rates and providing examples of misleading responses by AI models.