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Large language models fall short as replacements for human respondents in policy and opinion research, though they can help draft survey questions and run pilot tests, according to research from Northeastern University’s AI-Media Strategies Lab.
Study of ‘Silicon sampling’ across 30 academic papersThe working paper, published in October 2025 by ...
When journalists report on economic forces such as AI investment, infrastructure spending and historic market shifts, the challenge is hardly ever a lack of data — it’s a lack of context. Each time, journalists face the same question: how do you make large amounts of money feel real to someone who has never seen a trill...
On March 28, a masked thief broke into an $18 million mansion in Beverly. On March 31, Emily Sweeney—a Northeastern University journalism graduate who first joined The Boston Globe as a co-op—reported the story in a video posted to the outlet’s Instagram account. The clip went viral, not because of the heist’s cinematic absurdity, but because of Sweeney’s thick, classic Bosto...
When Lam Thuy Vo started tracking her IVF cycle data in spreadsheets (needles administered, follicle counts, hormone levels), she wasn’t thinking about a story. She was trying to impose order on something that felt completely out of her control. But that instinct to quantify, to make sense of chaos through data, became the backbone of one of the most formally inventive pieces...