DeepSeek's double life: How we tricked a Chinese chatbot for strike advice the 'free' Western models couldn't give
Freedom from censorship hasn't equaled real-world understanding for Western AI.
Advice on analyzing data for recurring news products
After gathering and cleaning your data, it's finally time to analyze it, verify it, and create reporting hypotheses to test
Field Notes: Civic scraping
A needs-driven practice for overcoming commercial, legal, and other inequities helps get people the knowledge they need to navigate their lives a little bit better.
How to process unstructured data
Move from scattered pieces of information to a usable database for identifying patterns, verifying facts, and forming the basis for your reporting
How to do manual collection, web scraping, and crowdsourcing data collection
A hybrid data gathering approach combines automated and manual methods to capture the most comprehensive view of your topic
Our Liechtenstein media model: creator economy meets journalism
In tiny markets like Liechtenstein, subsidies alone won't sustain news. The model must change.
Field Notes: Emotion versus evidence
Emotional activation drives verification behavior, but emotional content is more likely to be misleading or manipulative.
How to map information flows in distorted environments
Build a sustainable and scalable information system for remote data gathering
We're hiring researchers
We seek a Persian-speaking researcher and a technical researcher to help us with audience analysis.
How data gathering practices support service-oriented journalism in restricted contexts
Actively seeking out and structuring information fills voids in public knowledge
