How to cover 11,250 elections at once: Here’s how The Washington Post’s new computational journalism lab will tackle 2020 – Nieman Lab

How to cover 11,250 elections at once: Here’s how The Washington Post’s new computational journalism lab will tackle 2020

Hold onto your robots: The future of journalism is exceedingly computational. (At least part of it.) And the 2020 U.S. election is a great place to start. Newsrooms worldwide are trying to infuse their reporting with more data and computational analysis (see: The New York Times’ data training). The engineering-heavy Washington Post newsroom has used … Continue reading How to cover 11,250 elections at once: Here’s how The Washington Post’s new computational journalism lab will tackle 2020