Laurence Dierickx

@ulb.be

Information and Communication
Université Libre de Bruxelles

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

Scholar Citations

Scholar h-index

Scholar i10-index

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

La rgulation reste humaine
L Dierickx
Revue Projet, 40-43 2024

IA et journalisme: La rgulation reste humaine
L Dierickx
Revue Projet 398, 40-45 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

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

Automated fact-checking to support professional practices: systematic literature review and meta-analysis
L Dierickx, C Lindn, A Opdahl
International Journal of Communication 2023

The Ethical Dimensions of Data Quality for Automated Fact-Checking
L Dierickx, CG Lindn, AL Opdahl
C+J / DataJ Conference, Zrich, 2023 2023

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

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

Between fear and confidence. The dual relationship between journalists and news automation
L Dierickx
Journal of applied linguistics and professional practices 15 (3), 239–264 2021

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

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

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

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

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

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

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: 18

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), 154-167 2019
Citations: 10

News automation, materialities, and the remix of an editorial process
L Dierickx
Journalism 24 (3), 654-670 2023
Citations: 8

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

Why news automation fails?
L Dierickx
2019
Citations: 5

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

Automated fact-checking to support professional practices: systematic literature review and meta-analysis
L Dierickx, C Lindn, A Opdahl
International Journal of Communication 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

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

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

Automated news production within the uses and professional practices
L Dierickx
Ameaas ao Ciberjornalismo, 234 2019
Citations: 1