Sachita Nishal

PhD Candidate, Northwestern University

Publications

Date Updated: May 2, 2024

Archival Publications

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.
PDF 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.
PDF 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.
PDF 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.
PDF AAAI Archive

Workshops and Posters (Lightly Peer-Reviewed)

Domain-Specific Evaluation Strategies for AI in Journalism
Sachita Nishal, Charlotte Li and Nick Diakopoulos
Short paper to be presented at ACM CHI Workshop on Evaluating AI 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
Short paper presented at ACM CHI Workshop on Generative AI and HCI 2023.
arXiv

Motivations, Goals, and Pathways for AI Literacy for Journalism
Sachita Nishal and Mandi Cai
Short paper presented at ACM CHI Workshop on AI Literacy 2023.
PDF

Designing Predictive Models of Newsworthiness to Support Science Journalism
Sachita Nishal and Nick Diakopoulos
Poster presented at 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
Poster presented at International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) 2022.
Poster

AI-Driven Lead Recommenders for Science Journalists
Sachita Nishal and Nick Diakopoulos
Short paper presented at Computation + Journalism Symposium (C+J) 2022.
Slides

Invited Talks

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.
March 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.
October 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.
October 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.
March 2023, Palo Alto, U.S.A.
Slides