I am an Assistant Professor of Media and Democracy at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism. I research how news reaches the public in our increasingly algorithmically-defined world and how journalists can cover algorithms. As part of that overarching question, I am interested in data and computational journalism, media literacy, and algorithmic accountability.
My research was published in Information, Communication & Society and the journal of the International Symposium on Online Journalism, and it was presented at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, and the Computation + Journalism Symposium. I also occasionally write about it in public-facing media both in the United States and Brazil.
I have a PhD in Media, Technology and Society from the Northwestern University School of Communication. At Northwestern, I was a member of the Computational Journalism Lab.
Before my life in academia, I was a journalist for about a decade in my native country of Brazil, where I worked at a national newspaper, O Estado de S. Paulo and a regional newspaper, Diário do Grande ABC.
Daniel Trielli 