Northwestern University Knight Lab

Join the Knight Lab Studio in Spring 2023! This quarter we're putting together teams for each of our three projects, for JOUR or EECS credit, touching on:

- AI Art Generation for Journalism
https://studio.knightlab.com/projects/ai-art-generation/
- Cape to Cairo: Curating a Transcontinental Collection
https://studio.knightlab.com/projects/cape-to-cairo/
- What's next for Social Media: Into the Fediverse?
https://studio.knightlab.com/projects/fediverse-for-journalism/

Don’t think you’re technical enough?
Nonsense. Some, but not all, of our projects require technical know-how, and all projects have roles for less technical students.

Our application takes about 8 minutes to fill out, and can be found here: http://studio.knightlab.com/

Application deadline is February 17th at 9AM.

Questions? Reach out to Zach Wise
[email protected]

Knight Lab Studio Product > Journalism AI Readiness Scorecard AI, Automation, and Newsrooms: Finding Fitting Tools for Your Organization by Hannah Barton , Helen Bradshaw , Joshua Hoeflich , Grace Lee , Sammie Pyo If you’d like to use technology to make your newsroom more efficient, you’ve come to the right place...

Join the Knight Lab Studio in Fall 2022! This quarter we're putting together teams for each of our four projects, for JOUR or EECS credit, touching on:

- Cape to Cairo: Curating a Transcontinental Collection
https://studio.knightlab.com/projects/cape-to-cairo/
- Live Streaming the News: Exploring opportunities on livestreaming platforms: YouTube Live and Discord
https://studio.knightlab.com/projects/live-streaming/
- Measuring Influence & Impact
https://studio.knightlab.com/projects/measuring-impact/
- Publishing and the Future of Web3 Community Membership
https://studio.knightlab.com/projects/crypto-subscriptions/

Don’t think you’re technical enough? Nonsense. Some, but not all, of our projects require technical know-how, and all projects have roles for less technical students. Our application takes about 8 minutes to fill out, and can be found here: http://studio.knightlab.com/

Application deadline is Friday, May 20th at 9AM. Accepted students will be notified by the evening of May 22nd. (Registration begins on May 23rd.)
Questions? Reach out to Zach Wise ([email protected])

Knight Lab Studio Knight Lab Studio is an interdisciplinary class where Northwestern students, faculty, and professional staff work together at the intersection of storytelling, design, and technology: all media and platforms are fair game. As we work on these problems, we produce cutting-edge digital work, research,...

Join the Knight Lab Studio in Spring 2022! This quarter we're putting together teams for each of our four projects, for JOUR or EECS credit, touching on:

Coding for Journalism: Make meaningful contributions to open source
https://studio.knightlab.com/projects/coding-for-journalism/

Newsletters, Publishing and the Future of Web3: Exploring NFT subscription models
https://studio.knightlab.com/projects/crypto-subscriptions/

Live Streaming the News: Exploring opportunities on livestreaming platforms
https://studio.knightlab.com/projects/live-streaming/

Metaverse Media
https://studio.knightlab.com/projects/metaverse-media/

Don’t think you’re technical enough? Nonsense. Some, but not all, of our projects require technical know-how, and all projects have roles for less technical students. Our application takes about 8 minutes to fill out, and can be found here: http://studio.knightlab.com/

Application deadline is February 18th at 9AM.
Questions? Reach out to Zach Wise ([email protected])

Knight Lab Studio Product > Journalism AI Readiness Scorecard AI, Automation, and Newsrooms: Finding Fitting Tools for Your Organization by Hannah Barton , Helen Bradshaw , Joshua Hoeflich , Grace Lee , Sammie Pyo If you’d like to use technology to make your newsroom more efficient, you’ve come to the right place...

Join the Knight Lab Studio in Winter 2022! This quarter we're putting together teams for each of our four projects, for JOUR or EECS credit, touching on:

• Democratizing and Decentralizing News Media
https://studio.knightlab.com/projects/crypto-dao/
• NFT FTW: Exploring NFTs for Journalism
https://studio.knightlab.com/projects/crypto-nft/
• Journalistic Diversity Dashboard
https://studio.knightlab.com/projects/diversity-dashboard/
• Tinder for Freelancers
https://studio.knightlab.com/projects/freelance-matchmaker/

Don’t think you’re technical enough? Nonsense. Some, but not all, of our projects require technical know-how, and all projects have roles for less technical students. Our application takes about 8 minutes to fill out, and can be found here: http://studio.knightlab.com/

Application deadline is Friday, November 12th at 9AM. Accepted students will be notified by the evening of November 14th. (Registration begins on November 15th.)
Questions? Reach out to Zach Wise ([email protected])

Knight Lab Studio Mixed Reality > Augmented Reality Features with 3D Food Photography Building AR Journalism Experiences to Educate and Inform by Agnes Lee , Rui Xin Oh , Harrison Pearl , Carlyn Savino , Brian Sui In Spring of 2020, one of the Knight Lab Studio teams focused on exploring how Augmented Reality can be....

Join the Knight Lab Studio in Fall 2021! This quarter we're putting together teams for each of our four projects, for JOUR or EECS credit, touching on:

Journalism AI Readiness Scorecard
https://studio.knightlab.com/projects/ai-scorecard/
Crypto Media
https://studio.knightlab.com/projects/crypto-media/
Live Streaming the News: Exploring opportunities on livestreaming platforms
https://studio.knightlab.com/projects/live-streaming/
Recognizing Bias in the News
https://studio.knightlab.com/projects/recognizing-bias/

Don’t think you’re technical enough? Nonsense. Some, but not all, of our projects require technical know-how, and all projects have roles for less technical students. Our application takes about 8 minutes to fill out, and can be found here: http://studio.knightlab.com/

Application deadline is Wedneday, August 18th at 9AM. Accepted students will be notified by the evening of August 18th. (Registration begins on August 19th.)
Questions? Reach out to Zach Wise ([email protected])

Knight Lab Studio Mixed Reality > Augmented Reality Features with 3D Food Photography Building AR Journalism Experiences to Educate and Inform by Agnes Lee , Rui Xin Oh , Harrison Pearl , Carlyn Savino , Brian Sui In Spring of 2020, one of the Knight Lab Studio teams focused on exploring how Augmented Reality can be....

Join the Knight Lab Studio in Spring 2021! This quarter we're putting together teams for each of our four projects, for JOUR or EECS credit, touching on:

• Live Streaming the News
https://studio.knightlab.com/projects/live-streaming/
• Journalism and Democracy Applied: Providing context to government and politics reporting
https://studio.knightlab.com/projects/jour-democracy-applied/
• Data Streaming
https://studio.knightlab.com/projects/data-streaming/
• Da Concierge! Developing a chatbot to support Chicago tourism
https://studio.knightlab.com/projects/da-concierge/

Don’t think you’re technical enough? Nonsense. Some, but not all, of our projects require technical know-how, and all projects have roles for less technical students. Our application takes about 8 minutes to fill out, and can be found here: http://studio.knightlab.com/

Application deadline is Friday, March 5th at 9AM. Accepted students will be notified by the evening of March 7th.
Questions? Reach out to Zach Wise ([email protected])

Knight Lab Studio Mixed Reality > Augmented Reality Features with 3D Food Photography Building AR Journalism Experiences to Educate and Inform by Agnes Lee , Rui Xin Oh , Harrison Pearl , Carlyn Savino , Brian Sui In Spring of 2020, one of the Knight Lab Studio teams focused on exploring how Augmented Reality can be....

Join the Knight Lab Studio in Winter 2021! This quarter we're putting together teams for each of our five projects, for JOUR or EECS credit, touching on:

* Live Streaming the News: Exploring opportunities on livestreaming platforms
https://studio.knightlab.com/projects/live-streaming/
(Continuing work begun this quarter, but new applicants are welcome)
* Journalism and Democracy beyond the Election
https://studio.knightlab.com/projects/jour-democracy-beyond-election/
* The Partisanship Detector
https://studio.knightlab.com/projects/partisanship-detector/

Don’t think you’re technical enough? Nonsense. Some, but not all, of our projects require technical know-how, and all projects have roles for less technical students. Our application takes about 8 minutes to fill out, and can be found here: http://studio.knightlab.com/

Application deadline is Saturday, November 20th at 9AM. Accepted students will be notified by the evening of Nov. 22nd.
Questions? Reach out to Zach Wise ([email protected])

Knight Lab Studio Mixed Reality > Augmented Reality Features with 3D Food Photography Building AR Journalism Experiences to Educate and Inform by Agnes Lee , Rui Xin Oh , Harrison Pearl , Carlyn Savino , Brian Sui In Spring of 2020, one of the Knight Lab Studio teams focused on exploring how Augmented Reality can be....

Catch the second post in our Product Thinking in Journalism series: this one is a case study by Ryan Restivo of Newsday, about how they methodically developed their approach to local news alerts when they redesigned their iOS app.

How Newsday Launched Community News Alerts on Mobile. A Case Study in Product Thinking. Building a successful product is a collaborative process requiring inspiration, intuition, user research, business savvy and technical know-how. This is the...

Today on our blog we’re launching a series on “the rise of product thinking in journalism” with this article by Meredith Gallo

Journalism Has Been Disrupted. Can Product Thinking Save It? In the last 25 years, media organizations have had to evolve from one-product businesses into multi-product, technology-enabled companies. This evolution was...

Join the Knight Lab Studio in Fall 2020! This quarter we're putting together teams for each of our five projects, for JOUR or EECS credit, touching on:

Live Streaming the News: Exploring opportunities on livestreaming platforms
https://studio.knightlab.com/projects/live-streaming/
Travellers’ Tales: Re-imagining Travel Journalism
https://studio.knightlab.com/projects/travellers-tales/
Zoom to an Answer: Considering Zoom as a conduit for information
https://studio.knightlab.com/projects/zoom-to-answer/

Don’t think you’re technical enough? Nonsense. Some, but not all, of our projects require technical know-how, and all projects have roles for less technical students. Our application takes about 8 minutes to fill out, and can be found here: http://studio.knightlab.com/

Application deadline is Saturday, August 22nd at 9AM. Accepted students will be notified by the evening of Aug. 23rd.

Knight Lab Studio Mixed Reality > Augmented Reality Features with 3D Food Photography Building AR Journalism Experiences to Educate and Inform by Agnes Lee , Rui Xin Oh , Harrison Pearl , Carlyn Savino , Brian Sui In Spring of 2020, one of the Knight Lab Studio teams focused on exploring how Augmented Reality can be....

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Join the Knight Lab Studio in Spring 2020!
http://studio.knightlab.com/

This quarter we're putting together teams for five projects, for JOUR or EECS credit, touching on:

Augmented Reality Features with 3D Food Photography
https://studio.knightlab.com/projects/ar-food/

Documat: Automated Documentary Shorts
https://studio.knightlab.com/projects/documat/

LATINEXT: Highlighting Chicago’s Rising Latinx Voices
https://studio.knightlab.com/projects/latinext/

New To Town: Rethinking News Audience Needs
https://studio.knightlab.com/projects/new-to-town/

Design Research in Youth Media
https://studio.knightlab.com/projects/youth-publishing/

Don’t think you’re technical enough? Nonsense. Some, but not all, of our projects require technical know-how, and all projects have roles for less technical students. Our application takes about 8 minutes to fill out, and can be found here: http://studio.knightlab.com/

Application deadline is February 21st at 9AM.
Questions? Reach out to Zach Wise ([email protected])

Knight Lab Studio Product > Storytelling with GIFs Exploring and Understanding the Storytelling Potential of GIFs How GIFs are used across different platforms by Justine Banbury , Emily Chaiet , Naeem Patel , Idrees Kamal From memes to animated data visualizations, GIFs have become a staple in the way we communicate....