From Mr. and Mrs. Outlier To Central Tendencies: Computational journalism and crime reporting at the Los Angeles Times

Digital Journalism

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 381-397

  Young, Mary Lynn ^a   Hermida, Alfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

algorithm; computational journalism; crime reporting; data; homicide; journalism; Los Angeles Times

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977511717     PISSN: 21670811     EISSN: 2167082X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2014.976409     Document Type: Article

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