Project Grant 2128906

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation supports research and narrative discovery activities at The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology from October 2021 through September 2024 with $535,950 in funding. The award is made under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), which aims to advance computing, communications, and information sciences through investigator-initiated research and cyberinfrastructure development.

Specifically, the grant funds a collaborative research effort titled "The Future of News Work: Human-Technology Collaboration for Journalistic Research and Narrative Discovery." The project will explore how journalists can work with technologies like artificial intelligence and data analytics to uncover new stories and insights from large datasets. Researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology will partner with journalists to develop and test narrative discovery methods that leverage both human skills and computational tools. Outcomes seek to benefit news organizations and the public through improved investigative reporting approaches.