Matthew Carroll All Experts

Professor of the Practice in the School of Journalism

Contact: ma.carroll@northeastern.edu; 617.462.0631

Matthew Carroll for Northeastern

Anonymous sources help journalists break important stories. But they pose problems for reporters, too.

A recent spate of news stories relied on anonymous sources to report that President Donald Trump may have improperly pressured the president of Ukraine to investigate one of Trump’s political opponents.
- by Roberto Molar Candanosa September 22, 2019
What happens if a robot writes something libelous?

Who gets sued if a robot writes something libelous? Learn the answer to that question on Friday at Northeastern, where journalists, law experts, and computer scientists will convene to discuss how the rise of artificial intelligence is transforming law and the spread of information.
- by Emily Arntsen October 11, 2018

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