Dr. H. (Hannes) Cools
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Profile
Hannes Cools is a postdoctoral researcher at the AI, Media, and Democracy Lab at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He is also a postdoctoral researcher at the Digital Democracy Centre (DDC) at the University of Southern Denmark. His research interests include (generative) AI, computational journalism, algorithmic recommender systems and newsroom innovation. He is also an affiliated researcher at the Brown Institute of the Columbia Journalism School in New York City. From 2018 till 2022, he was a PhD-candidate at the Institute for Media Studies (IMS), University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium where he studied AI in journalism. Before, he worked as a journalist at De Morgen (DPG Media) in Belgium where he covered technology and international politics.
Expertise and research groups
- Artificial Intelligence
- News automation
- Newsroom Innovation
- AI in News
- Generative AI
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Research
Research methods
- Qualitative methods
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Publications
2023
Cools, H., Opgenhaffen, M., & van Gorp, B. (2023). Newsroom Engineering Teams as “Survival Entities” for Journalism? Mapping the Process of Institutionalization at The Washington Post. Digital Journalism. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2023.2195115
2022
- Cools, H., Van Gorp, B., & Opgenhaffen, M. (2022). New Organizations, Different Journalistic Roles, and Innovative Projects: How Second-generation Newsroom Innovation Labs are Changing the News Ecosystem. Journalism Practice. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2022.2097940
- Cools, H., Van Gorp, B., & Opgenhaffen, M. (2022). Where exactly between utopia and dystopia? A framing analysis of AI and automation in US newspapers. Journalism. https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849221122647
- Cools, H., van Gorp, B., & Opgenhaffen, M. (2022). New Forms of Gatekeeping in the Age of Computational Journalism. In Futures of Journalism (pp. 161-175) https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-95073-6_11
2021
- Cools, H., Van Gorp, B., & Opgenhaffen, M. (2021). When algorithms recommend what’s new(S): New dynamics of decision‐making and autonomy in newsgathering. Media and Communication, 9(4), 198-207. https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v9i4.4173
2022
- Cools, H. (2022). How algorithms are augmenting the journalistic institution: In search of evidence from newsrooms and its innovation labs.
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Cools, H., Opgenhaffen, M., & van Gorp, B. (2023). Newsroom Engineering Teams as “Survival Entities” for Journalism? Mapping the Process of Institutionalization at The Washington Post. Digital Journalism.