Meredith Broussard

Meredith Broussard is an Associate Professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University, research director at the NYU Alliance for Public Interest Technology, and the author of several books, including “More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech” and “Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World.” Her academic research focuses on artificial intelligence in investigative reporting and ethical AI, with a particular interest in using data analysis for social good. She appeared in the 2020 documentary Coded Bias, an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival that was nominated for an Emmy Award and an NAACP Image Award.
She is an affiliate faculty member at the Moore Sloan Data Science Environment at the NYU Center for Data Science, a 2019 Reynolds Journalism Institute Fellow, and her work has been supported by New America, the Institute of Museum & Library Services, and the Tow Center at Columbia Journalism School. A former features editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer, she has also worked as a software developer at AT&T Bell Labs and the MIT Media Lab. Her features and essays have appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Slate, and other outlets.
Selected Publication
How Computers Misunderstand the World
Meredith Broussard
Apr 2018 • MIT Press
May 2017 • The Atlantic
Samuel Woolley, danah boyd, Meredith Broussard and Made
Feb 2016 • Vice
Katherine Boss and Meredith Broussard
Oct 2015 • Newspaper Research Journal 36(3):299-313
Enabling Computational Journalism Through Code-sharing and Reproducible Research Methods
Sep 2015 • Digital Journalism 4(2):1-14
Using an Expert System to Enhance Journalists’ Ability to Uncover Original Public Affairs Stories
Dec 2014 • Digital Journalism 3(6):1-18 • Taylor & Francis
Media Appearance
Apr 2021 • Crosscut
Nov 2020 • TWIML&AI Podcast
Meredith Broussard and Safiya Umoja Noble
Jun 2020 • One Zero
Feb 2020 • Los Angeles Times
Jan 2020 • Screen Shot
Oct 2019 • Compliance Week
Aug 2019 • Getting Curious with JVN