Kristen Hare interviews Andrea Lehr, a marketing strategist, about her agency's report on the explosion of data in news, and some of its roots in the journalism of earlier decades, even centuries: "The fact that a computer was used in 1952 to accurately predict Eisenhower's win is incredible; even in the mid '50s, the country wanted to know who would be the next president before the election was even over." Also, newsrooms expand their data teams.
November 23, 2016