Articles by: Roxanne Khamsi

Say What? A Non-Scientific Comparison of Automated Transcription Services

Say What? A Non-Scientific Comparison of Automated Transcription Services

For as long as it’s been possible to record interviews with sources, journalists have had to grapple with the decision about whether to transcribe this material, and if so how much. Reporters with abundant financial or institutional resources could hire another human being to type out the interviews, using one of many independent companies that offer human-based transcription services. But the rest had to do it themselves. Now a bevy of transcription services have emerged online that process audio automatically.

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by · December 17, 2019 · 5 comments
Storygram: Charles Piller’s “Failure to Report”

Storygram: Charles Piller’s “Failure to Report”

Charles Piller’s 2015 STAT investigation “Failure to Report,” and the accompanying interactive graphic by Natalia Bronshtein, offered shocking details about institutions’ widespread failure to deposit clinical trial results into the public database ClinicalTrials.gov—and how that failure puts human lives at risk. Looking closely at Piller’s article, one sees the careful way he unpacks the unexpected revelations for readers. In the Q&A that follows, Piller shares how he methodically structured the piece and what it takes to dive headfirst into this sort of investigation.

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by · March 21, 2017 · 0 comments

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