Solely based on tweets, an application developed by Northwestern professors and students is reported to predict people’s voting preferences with an 80 percent accuracy. TweetCast is an online program...

The Northwestern Knight News Innovation Lab was recognized for its innovational election coverage by the Online News Association and PBS MediaShift Idea Lab. The Online News Association recognized the...

Congressional Primaries 2012, a project operated by the Knight News Innovation Lab at Northwestern, won an award recently from the Online News Association, the world’s largest group of online journalists. The...