The News Angler group attends the Norwegian Big Data Symposium
In the late autumn of 2018, the project group attended the 4th Norwegian Big Data Symposium (NOBIDS 2018) in Trondheim to present our joint paper on our big data platform for news angles. Before the workshop, we had an internal 1-day seminar and, the day after, Opdahl attended the NxtMedia Conference also in Trondheim.
Abstract: Finding good angles on news events is a central journalistic and editorial skill. As news work becomes increasingly computer-assisted and big-data based, journalistic tools therefore need to become better able to support news angles too. This paper outlines a big-data platform that is able to suggest appropriate angles on news events to journalists. We first clarify and discuss the central characteristics of news angles. We then proceed to outline a big-data architecture that can propose news angles. Important areas for further work include: representing news angles formally; identifying interesting and unexpected angles on unfolding events; and designing a big-data architecture that works on a global scale.
Gallofré Ocaña, M., Nyre, L., Opdahl, A. L., Tessem, B., Trattner, C., & Veres, C. (2019). Towards a big data platform for news angles. In Proceedings of the 4th Norwegian Big Data Symposium (NOBIDS 2018) in conjunction with NxtMedia Conference (NxtMedia 2018), Trondheim, Norway, November 14, 2018. CEUR Workshop Proceedings , Vol. 2316.