Liam Andrew | Nieman Journalism Lab

Articles by Liam Andrew

Liam Andrew is a media and technology researcher, software developer, and musician. He is a 2014 Google Journalism Fellow at the Nieman Journalism Lab, a graduate student in MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program, and a research assistant in HyperStudio, MIT’s laboratory for the digital humanities.

October 29, 2014

Controlled chaos: As journalism and documentary film converge in digital, what lessons can they share?

Old and new media types from journalism, documentary, and technology backgrounds gathered at MIT to share practices and discuss mutual concerns.

October 9, 2014

The Local, a growing European network of English-language news sites, aims for the expat crowd

With a large and growing audience, The Local is building scale across the continent.

INN to offer paid tech consulting to members and non-members

With a fresh redesign to the Largo Project launched, the Investigative News Network’s tech team hopes to find paying clients outside the network.

July 16, 2014

I’m feeling lucky: Can algorithms better engineer serendipity in research — or in journalism?

Some historical collections are aiming to enable serendipitous content discovery, peering beyond the current limitations of search to capture happy accidents.

FOLD wants to keep you from tumbling down link rabbit holes

Two MIT Media Labbers are developing a “context curation platform” that aims to explain what you need to know without taking you out of the reading experience.

Mike Bostock wants us to visualize algorithms, not just the data that feeds into them

How far ahead are media company CTOs planning?