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Predictive Journalism: On the Role of Computational Prospection in News Media

2022-06-01

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Whether it’s who is going to win an upcoming election, how a pandemic will unfold next month, or just what we plan to have for lunch, human beings are cognitively wired to think about—and want to know about—the future. Predictive journalism is a genre of data journalism focused on generating evidence-based forecasts that can help to fill this audience need. This report develops this idea of predictive journalism,...

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9634310e-db09-5da4-ba53-2ff96fbef814
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10.2139/ssrn.4092033
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