Laurence Dierickx

@ulb.be

Information and Communication
Université Libre de Bruxelles



                       

https://researchid.co/laurencedi

Laurence Dierickx is a researcher and digital & data journalism teacher specializing in AI-driven journalism, fact-checking, and ethics. She holds a master's degree in journalism and information technology. Laurence is also a Scientific Collaborator at ReSIC (Université Libre de Bruxelles, ULB), a member of LaPIJ (Laboratoire des Pratiques et des Identités Journalistiques), and teaches data journalism at ULB. Additionally, she intermittently researches at Bergen University (AI/Fact-Checking/Information Disorder - NORDIS) as a post-doc researcher and is a research fellow for DDC x TrygFonden/University of Southern Denmark (generative AI and fact-checking). Before moving to academia, she was a professional (data/computational) journalist for 15 years.

EDUCATION

PhD in Information and Communication (Université Libre de Bruxeles)
Master in Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies (MASTIC/Université Libre de Bruxelles)

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Multidisciplinary, Media Technology, Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence

126

Scholar Citations

6

Scholar h-index

5

Scholar i10-index

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • News Aggregation
    L Dierickx, CG Lindn
    in Nai, A., Grmping, M., & Wirz, D. (Eds), Elgar Encyclopedia of Political 2025

  • VeriDash: an AI-Driven, User-Centric Open Source Dashboard for Enhancing Multimedia Verification
    J Skivdal, L Dierickx, DT Dang-Nguyen
     2024

  • From bytes to bylines - A history of AI in journalism practices
    L Dierickx, CG Lindn
    Histories of Digital Journalism: The Interplay of Technology, Society and 2024

  • Outsourcing, Augmenting, or Complicating: The Dynamics of AI in Fact-Checking Practices in the Nordics
    L Dierickx, S Sirn-Heikel, CG Lindn
    Emerging Media, 27523543241288846 2024

  • Talking to journalists about AI
    L Dierickx, M Slavkovik
     2024

  • Transparency and fact-checking in open societies
    L Dierickx, CG Lindn
    Journalism, 14648849241292200 2024

  • Striking the Balance in Using LLMs for Fact-Checking: A Narrative Literature Review
    L Dierickx, A van Dalen, AL Opdahl, CG Lindn
    Disinformation in Open Online Media: 6th Multidisciplinary International 2024

  • IA et journalisme: La rgulation reste humaine
    L Dierickx
    Revue Projet 398 (1), 40-45 2024

  • A data-centric approach for ethical and trustworthy AI in journalism
    L Dierickx, AL Opdahl, S Ahmed Khan, CG Lindn, DC Guerrero Rojas
    Ethics and Information Technology 26 (64) 2024

  • Screens as Battlefields: Fact-Checkers’ Multidimensional Challenges in Debunking Russian-Ukrainian War Propaganda
    L Dierickx, CG Lindn
    Media and Communication 12 (2024), 8668 2024

  • Profile of sports journalists in France, Belgium, and Switzerland and analysis of discrimination related to their professional practice
    S Montaola, L Schoch, F Le Cam, L Dierickx
    tudes de communication 62 (1), 145-177 2024

  • Profil des journalistes de sport en France, Belgique et Suisse et analyse des discriminations lies la pratique professionnelle
    S Montaola, L Schoch, F Le Cam, L Dierickx
    tudes de communication 62 (1), 145-177 2024

  • The Information Disorder Level (IDL) Index: A Human-Based Metric to Assess the Factuality of Machine-Generated Content
    L Dierickx, CG Lindn, AL Opdahl
    Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online 2023

  • Datajournalisme. Thorie et pratique
    L Dierickx
     2023

  • Automated fact-checking to support professional practices: systematic literature review and meta-analysis
    L Dierickx, CG Lindn, AL Opdahl
    International Journal of Communication 17, 21-21 2023

  • Fine-Tuning Languages: Epistemological Foundations for Ethical AI in Journalism
    L Dierickx, CG Lindn
    2023 10th IEEE Swiss Conference on Data Science (SDS), 42-49 2023

  • News automation, materialities, and the remix of an editorial process
    L Dierickx
    Journalism 24 (3), 654-670 2023

  • Journalism and Fact-Checking Technologies: Understanding User Needs
    L Dierickx, CG Lindn
    communication +1 10 (3) 2023

  • Dans la boite noire de ChatGPT
    L Dierickx
    Politique 2023

  • AI in the newsroom: A data quality assessment framework for employing machine learning in journalistic workflow
    L Dierickx, CG Lindn, AL Opdahl, ...
    5th International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics 2023

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Robot journalism: The damage done by a metaphor
    TCG Linden, L Dierickx
    Unmediated: Journal of Politics and Communication 2, 152-155 2019
    Citations: 21

  • Automated fact-checking to support professional practices: systematic literature review and meta-analysis
    L Dierickx, CG Lindn, AL Opdahl
    International Journal of Communication 17, 21-21 2023
    Citations: 18

  • News automation, materialities, and the remix of an editorial process
    L Dierickx
    Journalism 24 (3), 654-670 2023
    Citations: 11

  • News bot for the newsroom: how building data quality indicators can support journalistic projects relying on real-time open data
    L Dierickx
    Global Investigative Journalism Conference 2017 Academic Track 2017
    Citations: 11

  • Information automatise et nouveaux acteurs des processus journalistiques.
    L Dierickx
    Sur le journalisme, About journalism, Sobre jornalismo 8 (2) 2019
    Citations: 10

  • The social construction of news automation and the user experience
    L Dierickx
    Brazilian journalism research 16 (3), 432-457 2020
    Citations: 8

  • Journalism and Fact-Checking Technologies: Understanding User Needs
    L Dierickx, CG Lindn
    communication +1 10 (3) 2023
    Citations: 6

  • Why news automation fails?
    L Dierickx
     2019
    Citations: 5

  • Intelligence artificielle et journalisme: une course avec les machines
    L Dierickx
    Equal time 2021
    Citations: 4

  • Journalisme algorithmique: un tat de l’art de la recherche
    L Dierickx
    Les Carnets du LaPIJ 2 2021
    Citations: 4

  • Fine-Tuning Languages: Epistemological Foundations for Ethical AI in Journalism
    L Dierickx, CG Lindn
    2023 10th IEEE Swiss Conference on Data Science (SDS), 42-49 2023
    Citations: 3

  • Report on the user needs of fact-checkers
    L Dierickx, G Sheikhi, DT Dang-Nguyen, CG Lindn
    https://datalab.au.dk/fileadmin/Datalab/NORDIS_reports/Report_task_4.2_Fact 2022
    Citations: 3

  • L'adquation aux usages, un remde contre l'chec?
    L Dierickx
    Les Cahiers du journalisme 2021
    Citations: 3

  • Du statut d’objet technique celui d’objet social dans le contexte de la production automatise d’informations journalistiques
    L Dierickx
    Terminal. Technologie de l'information, culture & socit 2018
    Citations: 3

  • Striking the Balance in Using LLMs for Fact-Checking: A Narrative Literature Review
    L Dierickx, A van Dalen, AL Opdahl, CG Lindn
    Disinformation in Open Online Media: 6th Multidisciplinary International 2024
    Citations: 2

  • The Information Disorder Level (IDL) Index: A Human-Based Metric to Assess the Factuality of Machine-Generated Content
    L Dierickx, CG Lindn, AL Opdahl
    Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online 2023
    Citations: 2

  • State of the art in fact-checking technology
    CG Lindn, DT Dang-Nguyen, C Salas-Gulliksen, S Ahmed Khan, ...
    NORDIS, University of Bergen 2022
    Citations: 2

  • La production automatise d'informations en appui aux pratiques journalistiques: Analyse des reprsentations, des conditions d'association et de la structuration des usages en
    L Dierickx
    Universit libre de Bruxelles 2020
    Citations: 2

  • Journalists as end-users: Quality management principles applied to the design process of news automation
    L Dierickx
    First Monday 2020
    Citations: 2

  • Outsourcing, Augmenting, or Complicating: The Dynamics of AI in Fact-Checking Practices in the Nordics
    L Dierickx, S Sirn-Heikel, CG Lindn
    Emerging Media, 27523543241288846 2024
    Citations: 1