Conference 2014 speaker series: an interview with Jonathan Stray

Ahead of the Polis Annual Journalism Conference on Friday March 28th, we are interviewing some of our speakers. Jonathan Stray is the man behind Overview, a project from the Associated Press that aims to help journalists find stories in large quantities of documents. The tool uses keyword searches to automatically sort documents according to topic, making patterns and trends far easier to spot. Jonathan is a fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, teaching and researching computational journalism. He developed Overview with a Knight News Challenge grant.