Han Vu is a 2023 RJI Student Innovation Fellow partnered with American Press Institute in Arlington, Virginia. The RJI Student Fellows will be sharing their innovative work through Innovation in Focus.
API developed the tool Source Matters and launched it in 2021 to help lighten the load for reporters looking to track their sources. By utilizing natural language processing (NLP) algorithms, the tool examines each story after it is published, automatically detecting and extracting all the names of individuals who have been quoted or attributed. It pulls the names out for the journalist and then allows the journalist to log the source’s demographic information, after asking how the source identifies across a few different identity categories.
This year, we are working with a cohort of 12 local newsrooms that gained access to the tool for free, with the commitment to make their source data publicly available for transparency and accountability. We are also collecting feedback from these newsrooms to continue to improve the user experience of Source Matters.
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