By Stephanie Kanowitz
Apr 29, 2021
Members of Montgomery County, Md.’s Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) are using an artificial intelligence-based system to find COVID-related items in Twitter posts that may call for action.
As part of research by a team from Brigham Young University (BYU), George Mason University (GMU), the University of Texas (UT) at Austin and Virginia Tech University, CERT volunteers dubbed the Virtual Emergency Response Team (VERT) are tagging tweets based on relevance to help train the AI to recognize data that indicates a situation that emergency response may want to know about.
Under a grant from the National Science Foundation to study human-AI teaming in emergency response, the researchers had been studying how the AI platform, called CitizenHelper, would work during natural disasters. Last fall, though, they shifted to focus on COVID-19 and spent six months studying tweets posted in the National Capital Region that could indicate COVID-ri
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The Dan Rather Medals for News and Guts will go out to collegiate and professional journalists who overcome obstacles like stonewalling and harassment to speak truth to power, according to a statement from UT s Moody College of Communication and the School of Journalism and Media.
The annual awards will honor relentless reporting as well as exceptional content including text, audio, broadcast or graphics, the statement continues.
Each winner will receive $5,000. “It has never been more important to encourage courage,” Rather said when the awards were announced. “The hope is that these medals will help lift up journalists who risk it all to tell tough truths.”
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Talk about your Bizarro World. Up is down. Right is wrong. Dan Rather has a journalism award named after him.
Fox News on Wednesday reported that the University of Texas named an award after the disgraced ex-CBS News anchor. David Rutz wrote, “UT s Moody College of Communication tweeted Wednesday that it was introducing ‘the Dan Rather Medals for News and Guts to recognize collegiate and professional journalists who overcome obstacles like stonewalling and harassment to speak truth to power.’
Dan Rather? The same guy who was forced out at CBS after his
60 Minutes fake news report attempted to derail the reelection of George W. Bush in 2004? Here’s the school’s actual tweet, complete with a ridiculous-looking medal.
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The University of Texas was ridiculed Wednesday after its communications school announced a series of journalism awards named after disgraced former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather.
UT s Moody College of Communication tweeted Wednesday that it was introducing the Dan Rather Medals for News and Guts to recognize collegiate and professional journalists who overcome obstacles like stonewalling and harassment to speak truth to power. Dan Rather is not only a legend he’s the namesake of new awards honoring his career and the work of today’s journalists, Moody College of Communication Dean Jay Bernhardt tweeted.
Published: December 14, 2020
Sitting in her car one afternoon in July, 25-year-old graduate student Julia Araujo shared her reactions to the COVID-19 outbreak through a video call. While interviewer Dominique Montiel Valle listened on the other side of the screen, Araujo described the mental toll the lockdown took on her, including daily panic attacks and desperate phone calls to her parents. The conversation is one of nearly 100 interviews that the team of the Voces Oral History Center has conducted as part of its new project, Voces of a Pandemic, which seeks to illustrate the ways in which the Latinx community has been affected by COVID-19.