Why ‘Robot Reporters’ Are a Good Thing
First of all, let’s not let allow the alluring alliteration to distract from we’re really talking about — not robot reporters, but robot writers. Mashable’s Lance Ulanoff asked me what I thought about...
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Localizing the NYT Data Viz on Police Racial Disparity
One of the most important attributes of data driven journalism is that it scales, and the primary goal of my OpenRural, Open N.C. and data dashboard projects has been to democratize data so that we...
View ArticleBen Bradlee interview from 2005
I was lucky enough to be working at The Washington Post in 2005 when the identity of Deep Throat was revealed. I remembered at the time thinking what a relief it was for The Post to finally have it...
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How to Write a Job Description for Newsroom Programmers
Hiring managers at news organizations know they need reporters who know programming, or professor know it’s a valuable skill to teach students. But too often I suspect they don’t know what they really...
View ArticleEmail Newsletter Success Metrics
Updated: Jan. 8, 2015, 11:21 a.m. One byproduct of all the recent articles about the growth of email newsletter that aim to “cut through the daily clutter” is an amazing amount of clutter about email...
View ArticleSurvey: Is N.C’s Born-Digital News Legacy Being Sent Down the Memory Hole?
Just over 15 years ago the first big news story I worked on also turned out to be the first big news story of the digital news era. The Clinton-Lewinsky scandal broke online, with the first and biggest...
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2017 Graduation Speech to UNC Department of Statistics and Operations Research
https://ryanthornburg.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/rec_2017-05-14_13-05-09_part.mp3 Text as prepared. YOU LOOK GREAT. A SEA OF BLUE. 20 YEARS AGO I WAS ONE OF THOSE DROPLETS IN THE SEA OF BLUE. I’M...
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