The Computation + Journalism Symposium is a space for anyone working at, or curious about, the intersections of computation and journalism. This includes practicing journalists, independent data storytellers, computational social scientist, artists, digital humanities scholars, cartographers, and others. It has been hosted in prior years at Stanford, Northwestern, Georgia Tech, Columbia, ETH Zurich, and Univ. of Miami.

Northeastern University will be hosting C+J, beginning the evening of Friday, October 25, and running through Sunday, October 27. While welcoming many perspectives, C+J is hosted by universities and embraces an academic approach to conferences, inviting proposals for short papers, contributed talks, and contributed sessions.

Panels and Workshops

Topics include:

• Data and journalism
• Newsroom practice
• AI in journalism
• Local news
• Language analysis
• Audience and representation

View the complete list of panels and workshops

Join us at ISEC

Northeastern University’s Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex brings together researchers from diverse disciplines, like computation and journalism, to solve global challenges. Connecting the Fenway and Roxbury neighborhoods of Boston, the building is at the heart of Northeastern’s campus. ISEC is LEED Gold certified, using 78% less energy than a traditional lab building.

Keynote Speakers

Julia Angwin

Julia Angwin is an American investigative journalist, author, and entrepreneur. She co-founded and was editor-in-chief of The Markup, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the impact of technology on society.

Aaron Sankin

Aaron Sankin is a reporter for Reveal covering online extremism, election administration and technology policy. Before joining Reveal, he was a founding editor of The Huffington Post’s San Francisco vertical and a senior staff writer on The Daily Dot’s politics team.

Alan Mislove

Alan Mislove is a professor and the senior associate dean for academic affairs at Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. He recently served as Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer for Privacy at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Conference Leadership

Co-Chairs, Program Committee: Rahul Bhargava, Piotr Sapieżyński, Chenyan Jia

General Chair: John Wihbey

Finance Chair: Susan Conover

Faculty Conference Directors: Dan Zedek, Matt Carroll

Staff Administrators: Amelia Keany, Libby Phillips

Student Co-Director and Web Lead: Emma Klekotka

Thank you to our event sponsors: Knight Foundation, Northeastern University College of Arts, Media and Design, and Northeastern University Khoury College of Computer Sciences

Questions? Contact John Wihbey: [email protected]