Northwestern University Knight Lab

02/13/2023

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]

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...

05/17/2022

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 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,...

02/14/2022

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])

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...

11/05/2021

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])

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....

08/11/2021

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])

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....

03/01/2021

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])

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....

11/16/2020

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])

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....

11/11/2020

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.

Building a successful product is a collaborative process requiring inspiration, intuition, user research, business savvy and technical know-how. This is the...

11/09/2020

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

In the last 25 years, media organizations have had to evolve from one-product businesses into multi-product, technology-enabled companies. This evolution was...

08/18/2020

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.

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....

04/30/2020

Our Device Lab team has started a new weekly newsletter -- learn more and sign up at https://bit.ly/knightlab-new-spaces

02/12/2020

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])

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....