...and the story tellers too ...

Nick Diakopoulos, a Tow Fellow at Columbia, wants to expand what journalists think about when they think about algorithms.“One of the key points Evgeny Morozov makes in his last book about the religion of optimization is that we’re always just thinking about how to optimize things. The optimal solution isn’t always necessarily the best solution, but because it represents some kind of monetary gain, I think it does get the most attention,” Diakopoulos says. “As an academic, I think the more interesting questions for journalism now is: How do you integrate algorithms into reporting or storytelling?”