The Joint
Computation + Journalism
European Data & Computational Journalism
Conference 2023

Meredith Broussard is Associate Professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University and Research Director at the NYU Alliance for Public Interest Technology.

She is the author of More than a Glitch Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech (MIT Press, 2023) and Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World (MIT Press, 2019).

Her research focuses on artificial intelligence in investigative reporting, with particular interests in AI ethics and using data analysis for social good. She appears in the Emmy-nominated documentary «Coded Bias».

Follow her on Twitter @merbroussard or contact her via meredithbroussard.com.

Gary Liu was CEO of the South China Morning Post until July 2022, a global news media company that has reported on China and Asia for more than a century. Gary was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2019.

Prior to joining the SCMP in January 2017, Gary was CEO of Digg, spearheading the New York startup’s transformation from aggregator to a data-driven news platform. Previously, Gary was Head of Labs at Spotify, after joining the company as Global Director of Ad Product Strategy. Gary has also worked at AOL and Google.

Uli Köppen is head of AI + Automation Lab and co-head of the Investigative data unit at the German public broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk (ARD). She is an affiliate to the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard.

She oversees a team of journalists, coders, and designers specializing in investigative data stories, interactive storytelling, and experimentation with new research methods such as bots and machine learning.

His research focuses on natural language processing and computational linguistics. He is an expert in deep learning, particularly for low-resource languages.