Values as Problems, Principles, and Tensions in Sociotechnical System Design for Journalism
Sachita Nishal and Nick Diakopoulos
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) 2025.
Forthcoming
News Futures: (Re-)Designing Socio-technical Systems for News Production and Consumption
Sachita Nishal, Marianne Aubin Le Quéré, Brian James McInnis, Bronwyn Jones, Kristen Vaccaro, Tanja Aitamurto, Mor Naaman, and Nick Diakopoulos
Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA) 2025.
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ACM DL
Understanding Practices around Computational News Discovery Tools in the Domain of Science Journalism
Sachita Nishal, Jasmine Sinchai and Nick Diakopoulos
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW) 2024.
PDF
ACM DL
Blogpost (on LLM Evaluation)
From Crowd Ratings to Predictive Models of Newsworthiness to Support Science Journalism
Sachita Nishal and Nick Diakopoulos
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW) 2022.
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ACM DL
Voting with the Stars: Analyzing Partisan Engagement between Celebrities and Politicians in India
Ramaravind Kommiya Mothilal, Dibyendu Mishra, Sachita Nishal, Faisal M. Lalani, Joyojeet Pal
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW) 2022.
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ACM DL
Devotees on an Astroturf: Media, Politics, and Outrage in the Suicide of a Popular Film Star
Syeda Zainab Akbar, Ankur Sharma, Dibyendu Mishra, Ramaravind Kommiya Mothilal, Himani Negi, Sachita Nishal, Anmol Panda, Joyojeet Pal
Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS) 2022.
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ACM DL
DISMISS: Database of Indian Social Media Influencers (Snowballed Sequentially) on Twitter
Arshia Arya, Soham De, Dibyendu Mishra, … , Sachita Nishal, Saloni Dash, S. Shora, Syeda Zainab Akbar, Joyojeet Pal
Proceedings of the Sixteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) 2022.
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AAAI Archive
Designing for Agency in LLM-Infused Writing Support Tools for Science Journalism
Sachita Nishal, Mina Lee, Nick Diakopoulos, and Jennifer Wortman Vaughan
Workshop on Tools for Thought at ACM CHI 2025.
PDF
De-jargonizing Science for Journalists with GPT-4: A Pilot Study
Sachita Nishal, Eric Lee and Nick Diakopoulos
Computation + Journalism Symposium (C+J) 2024.
arXiv
Domain-Specific Evaluation Strategies for AI in Journalism
Sachita Nishal, Charlotte Li and Nick Diakopoulos
Workshop on Evaluating AI at ACM CHI 2024.
arXiv
Blogpost
Designing Interactive, Configurable and Transparent Algorithmic Systems to Support Journalistic Decision-Making
Sachita Nishal
Outline of my thesis presented at Doctoral Consortium at ACM FAccT 2023.
Envisioning the Applications and Implications of Generative AI in the Newsroom
Sachita Nishal and Nick Diakopoulos
Workshop on Generative AI and HCI at ACM CHI 2023.
arXiv
Motivations, Goals, and Pathways for AI Literacy for Journalism
Sachita Nishal and Mandi Cai
Workshop on AI Literacy at ACM CHI 2023.
PDF
Designing Predictive Models of Newsworthiness to Support Science Journalism
Sachita Nishal and Nick Diakopoulos
Lambert Conference on the Future of Human Computer Interaction + Design 2022.
Poster
Impact of Trope-based Novelty on Cinematic Success
Sachita Nishal and Luís A. Nunes Amaral
International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) 2022.
Poster
AI-Driven Lead Recommenders for Science Journalists
Sachita Nishal and Nick Diakopoulos
Computation + Journalism Symposium (C+J) 2022.
Slides
Cute Bookworms and Caged Birds: Implicit Biases Toward Female Characters in LLM Stories
Sachita Nishal
Talk at CoDeX Symposium 2025.
Mar 2025, Chicago, U.S.A.
How Can Journalists Report Using AI?
Sachita Nishal and Mandi Cai
Talk organized by Journalism & Women Symposium.
Jan 2025, Chicago, U.S.A.
Evaluating Generative AI Tools in Your Newsroom
Charlotte Li, Sachita Nishal and Nick Diakopoulos
Talk + hands-on workshop at Computation + Journalism Symposium (C+J) 2024.
Oct 2024, Boston, U.S.A.
Blueprints for Evaluating AI in
Journalism
Sachita Nishal
Talk at AI & News: Charting the Course, organized by Aspen Digital.
May 2024, New York City, U.S.A.
Slides
Who gets to be a jerk with a heart of gold, or: measuring implicit gender biases in LLM-generated stories
Sachita Nishal
Talk at Story Discovery At Scale Conference 2024, organized by Big Local News.
Mar 2024, Palo Alto, U.S.A.
Building and Evaluating Trustworthy Tools with Generative AI in your Newsroom
Sachita Nishal and Eric Ulken
Talk + interactive sketching workshop at SRCCON 2023, organized by OpenNews.
Oct 2023, Minneapolis, U.S.A.
Slides
AI Literacy for News Reporting
Sachita Nishal and Mandi Cai
Talk at CAMP 2023, organized by Journalism & Women Symposium.
Oct 2023, Chicago, U.S.A.
Slides
Imagining Future(s) of AI-Driven Storytelling
Sachita Nishal
Talk at Story Discovery At Scale Conference 2023, organized by Big Local News.
Mar 2023, Palo Alto, U.S.A.
Slides