Charles Berret: Complete Public Work Index ========================================== Canonical visual index: https://charlesberret.net/index/ This file contains the site's complete project records, original publication synopses, and a broader catalog of public evidence with labeled source links. Publisher-owned work is linked rather than reproduced. Contribution roles describe Charles Berret's work on each publication. Counts: 9 projects, 42 writing records, 51 public receipts. Projects ======== Kettle ====== Type: Software Organization: Independent Dates: 2026-present Topics: Local-first software, Human review, Agent workflows, Plaintext Summary ------- A local review desk where agents prepare work and a person reads, edits, and decides. Project Notes ------------- Kettle is a local review desk for work prepared with software agents. It gives that work a stable place to arrive, be read closely, and be changed before anything is accepted. The central idea is deliberately modest: agents can prepare drafts, patches, research, and decisions, but a person remains responsible for reading, editing, and deciding. The interface brings a curated queue, a plaintext editor, and a project-aware review agent into one sitting. Each project keeps its own desk in a .kettle directory, so the review state travels with the work instead of disappearing into a chat transcript. A local API lets other tools submit and inspect items without turning the desk into a hosted service. The system is split across a small core service, a desktop application, and editor integrations. That separation keeps the underlying review contract usable beyond any one interface. Kettle is being prepared for public release as source code, documentation, and a working example of the review process it is meant to support. Original and Related Work ------------------------- - No public source link is available. Canonical page: https://charlesberret.net/projects/#kettle Plaintext: https://charlesberret.net/projects/kettle.txt Data Journalism =============== Type: Systems Organization: Enigma Dates: 2025-26 Topics: Agent workflows, Data journalism, Databricks, DuckDB, Marimo, RECAP, Entity resolution Summary ------- An agentic research pipeline for data journalism: reusable queries, entity resolution, and human review, with published investigations as worked examples rather than the main exhibit. Project Notes ------------- The main work was not a sequence of one-off stories. It was a research system for data journalism: how to ask questions of a large entity graph, keep the path from source to claim inspectable, hand intermediate results between sessions and tools, and keep a person responsible for judgment before anything published. I built that pipeline from warehouse queries through local analysis (Databricks, DuckDB, Marimo) and into agent-assisted research workflows that reused the same checks and criteria across topics. The aim was modest and operational: preserve method across sessions, including what was queried, what a result meant, which verification steps had run, and when a human still had to decide. The public investigations listed below are outputs and stress tests of that system, published under Enigma’s institutional byline. They follow shell companies, mass litigation, licensing carve-outs, and jurisdictional patterns, but they are best read as evidence that the pipeline could carry a story from raw records to a publishable claim. Specific counts and case examples (for instance Schedule A litigation in RECAP, or state registration data joined to federal licensing) live in those pieces; the durable product of the work is the method underneath them. A separate, unpublished reproduction of the NYC Public Advocate’s worst-landlords methodology came within roughly 15 percent of its published counts. It was a deliberate dry run of the same pipeline against open data, not a public ranking. Related systems work at Enigma (reusable research skills, entity-resolution clients, and multi-model evaluation) is described under Content Engineering at Enigma. Original and Related Work ------------------------- How Much Is a Verification Worth? Read an investigation estimating the economic value of a single identity verification from Enigma data. https://www.enigma.com/resources/blog/enigma-newsletter-how-much-is-a-verification-worth How to Sue a Company That Doesn't Even Exist Read an investigation of mass-defendant lawsuits against businesses that appear not to exist. https://www.enigma.com/resources/blog/enigma-newsletter-americas-most-sued-companies-dont-exist Anatomy of a Shell Company Read an investigation of the addresses, agents, and officers that reveal shell-company networks. https://www.enigma.com/resources/blog/enigma-newsletter-anatomy-of-a-shell-company Wyoming's Corporate Boom Read an investigation of the state structures that make anonymous business ownership a paid feature. https://www.enigma.com/resources/blog/enigma-newsletter-wyomings-corporate-boom No Branches, No Verification, No Problem Read an investigation of a Colorado licensing carve-out and crypto-named money-service businesses. https://www.enigma.com/resources/blog/enigma-newsletter-no-branches-no-verification-no-problem The Geography of Corporate America Read a data-driven map of where American companies incorporate and why those jurisdictions attract them. https://www.enigma.com/resources/blog/enigma-newsletter-geography-of-corporate-america Canonical page: https://charlesberret.net/projects/#data-journalism Plaintext: https://charlesberret.net/projects/data-journalism.txt Iceberg Sensemaking =================== Type: Research Organization: UBC and Linköping University Dates: 2022-25 Topics: Critical visualization, Sensemaking, Data practice, Epistemic humility Summary ------- A process model, written with Tamara Munzner, for the below-the-waterline schemas and judgment that shape any data analysis, kept separate from the newsroom papers Charles co-authored as an academic advisor. Project Notes ------------- Iceberg Sensemaking, written with Tamara Munzner, starts from a simple problem: data is only the visible part of an analysis. Beneath it are schemas about what exists, what matters, and how observations should be organized. Those schemas may remain tacit, even while they determine what can be collected and what a result can mean. The model describes analysis as an iterative process of adding, checking, and refining both data and schemas. It treats data as a schematic artifact rather than a neutral representation, and it allows multiple interpretations to remain in play instead of forcing them into a single account. Four scenarios test the model against practical problems: data that was never collected, data wrangling, inconvenient observations, and the apparent objectivity of sensors. The paper offers analysts a vocabulary for examining their own interpretive work. Its aim is not to make judgment disappear, but to make judgment available for scrutiny. Related newsroom studies on data preparation and multi-table wrangling (Dirty Data in the Newsroom, Table Scraps, OpenRoundup) were led by Stephen Kasica as doctoral research. Charles appears on those papers as co-author and academic advisor, not as lead author. They are catalogued under Writing with that credit, not as primary exhibits of this project. Original and Related Work ------------------------- Iceberg Sensemaking on arXiv Read the full preprint, abstract, and revision history on arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.04758 Published article Open the DOI record for the peer-reviewed IEEE TVCG article and its citation details. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2024.3486613 Canonical page: https://charlesberret.net/projects/#iceberg-sensemaking Plaintext: https://charlesberret.net/projects/iceberg-sensemaking.txt Cryptographic Amnesia ===================== Type: Book Organization: MIT Press Dates: forthcoming Topics: MIT Press, Archival research, Oral history Summary ------- A cultural history of cryptography that follows codes and ciphers from specialized instruments into the infrastructure of everyday communication. Project Notes ------------- Cryptographic Amnesia asks how cryptography acquired so many civilian purposes and meanings during the twentieth century. Encryption came to protect secrets, verify identity and information, secure commerce, resist surveillance, and organize political life. The book follows that change through the people who made, used, regulated, and argued about codes and ciphers. The research draws on archives, public records, and long-form interviews with cryptographers and cypherpunks. Rather than presenting a sequence of technical breakthroughs or another history of war and espionage, it treats cryptography as a social practice and a medium of communication. This makes it possible to ask not only whether a system worked, but who trusted it, what kind of relationship it created, and which forms of power it helped to distribute or conceal. The result is a people's history of cryptography and a usable past for anyone who now depends on encryption without having chosen the terms of that dependence. Forthcoming from MIT Press. Original and Related Work ------------------------- Overview Read the publication synopsis, status, and bibliographic record for the forthcoming book. https://charlesberret.net/writing/#writing-cryptographic-amnesia Drawbridge Model preprint Read a related preprint on how cryptographic tools move between civilian and military uses. https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/nmbwj Dissertation excerpts Open selected dissertation chapters that form part of the book's archival research foundation. https://charlesberret.net/shared/2018-berret-diss-final-excerpts.pdf Canonical page: https://charlesberret.net/projects/#cryptographic-amnesia Plaintext: https://charlesberret.net/projects/cryptographic-amnesia.txt Content Engineering (Enigma Technologies) ========================================= Type: Software Organization: Enigma Dates: 2025-26 Topics: Claude Skills, MCP, GraphQL, Model evaluation, Agent orchestration Summary ------- The software side of an agentic research desk: reusable skills, entity resolution, and multi-model evaluation that supported data-journalism investigations. Project Notes ------------- This is the tooling half of the same problem described under Data Journalism: how to make agent-assisted research durable enough for editorial work. Between Enigma’s data systems and the people using language models to investigate and publish, I built a content-engineering layer: reusable query and research skills, a GraphQL client for resolving business identities, and an MCP server that compared models across providers on the same tasks and criteria. The point was not to make an agent appear autonomous. It was to preserve the parts of a method that should survive from one session to the next: how to query the entity graph, where a result came from, which checks a claim had passed, and when a person needed to review the work. Scheduled multi-session workflows used explicit handoffs, monitoring, and durable state rather than relying on a single long prompt. Public-facing outcomes of that stack include launch material for the Enigma Government Archive and Enigma’s KYB Agent on Google Cloud. The investigation pieces linked from the Data Journalism project are worked examples of research run through related pipelines; they were published under institutional bylines. Internal tool counts and architecture details rest on work records and are not independently attributed on those public pages. Original and Related Work ------------------------- Enigma Government Archive Read Enigma's account of the public-record archive and the research infrastructure behind it. https://www.enigma.com/resources/blog/enigma-government-archive KYB Agent on Google Cloud Read a product case study of the business-verification agent built on Enigma data and Google Cloud. https://www.enigma.com/resources/blog/enigma-kyb-agent-on-google-cloud Canonical page: https://charlesberret.net/projects/#content-engineering-platform Plaintext: https://charlesberret.net/projects/content-engineering-platform.txt Knowing Together ================ Type: Art Organization: Brown Institute for Media Innovation and EdLab Dates: 2018-19 Topics: Photogrammetry, Collaboration, Embodied data, 3D imaging Summary ------- A collaborative photogrammetry project in which the seams and distortions of a 3D image record how a group tried to see together. Project Notes ------------- Created with Rosalie Yu, Knowing Together invited thirty-five participants to form a circle and pass a camera from person to person. Each photograph captured part of the group from a different position. Photogrammetry software combined those partial viewpoints into 3D models, but movement, ambient light, and the handoff between participants prevented the images from resolving cleanly. We kept the resulting seams, gaps, and distortions. They made the process of collaboration visible inside an image that would otherwise appear to come from a single, stable point of view. Consent and vulnerability were part of the method: participants decided how to present themselves while accepting that the group and the software would produce something none of them could fully control. The project brought the models together with source photographs, written reflections, audio, and sculpture. It was exhibited at Teachers College in New York and at the ACM SIGGRAPH Art Gallery in Los Angeles, where we presented the accompanying paper in 2019. A later essay, The Lifespan of Ephemera, reflects on what a digital model can preserve of an embodied and temporary encounter. Original and Related Work ------------------------- Project site Explore the collaborative photogrammetry project through images, process notes, and an interactive presentation. https://knowing-together.rosalieyu.com/ SIGGRAPH Art Gallery catalog entry Open the illustrated catalog paper presented with the project in the SIGGRAPH Art Gallery. https://charlesberret.net/shared/2019-yu-berret-knowing-together.pdf SIGGRAPH paper DOI Open the persistent publication record and citation details for the SIGGRAPH paper. https://doi.org/10.1145/3306211.3320139 The Lifespan of Ephemera Read a later essay on preservation, disappearance, and the project's changing digital afterlife. https://charlesberret.net/shared/2024-berret-yu-lifespan-of-ephemera.pdf Canonical page: https://charlesberret.net/projects/#knowing-together Plaintext: https://charlesberret.net/projects/knowing-together.txt Equipment for Living (SFPC) =========================== Type: Teaching Organization: School for Poetic Computation Dates: Spring 2025 Topics: Teaching, Photogrammetry, Unity, Media theory Summary ------- A ten-week School for Poetic Computation course about making media as a way to think through memory, ritual, collaboration, and everyday life. Project Notes ------------- Co-taught with Rosalie Yu, Equipment for Living borrowed its title from Kenneth Burke's description of art as a source of practical strategies for recurring situations. We asked what that idea might mean for contemporary media: not only what a camera, 3D model, or game engine can represent, but what it can help a person remember, rehearse, share, or survive. The ten classes paired theories of literature, photography, cinema, and digital media with a technical path from photography through photogrammetry to Unity. Units on communication and persuasion, memory and reflection, ritual and identity, collaboration and community, and dreams and imagination gave each tool a human problem to work on. Rut Karin Zettergren joined the class as a guest artist. Students completed an essay or creative project that developed one piece of equipment for living and made it available to others. The course was not a general introduction to media software. It treated technical fluency as one part of a larger practice of deciding what is worth making and whom a tool might serve. Original and Related Work ------------------------- Course Read the School for Poetic Computation course overview, themes, schedule, and instructor information. https://sfpc.study/sessions/spring-25/equipment-for-living Teaching essay Read Charles and Rosalie Yu's account of the ideas and teaching methods behind the course. https://sfpc.study/blog/equipment-for-living Student work Browse projects made by students during the course, with images and individual project notes. https://projects.sfpc.study/equipment-for-living/ Canonical page: https://charlesberret.net/projects/#equipment-for-living Plaintext: https://charlesberret.net/projects/equipment-for-living.txt SecureDrop ========== Type: Research Organization: Tow Center for Digital Journalism Dates: 2015-16 Topics: Source protection, Digital security, Journalism, Interviews Summary ------- The first published study of how SecureDrop entered newsroom routines and changed the practical conditions of protecting anonymous sources. Project Notes ------------- The Guide to SecureDrop examined both the software and the newsroom practices that made it useful. I interviewed twelve journalists and three technical administrators across ten news organizations, along with five people who built, trained, or supported the system. Nine of the ten news organizations said SecureDrop had proved useful, but most relied on a small number of dedicated operators to check it and move material into ordinary reporting workflows. That narrow operating model was not simply a sign of failure. SecureDrop asks a newsroom to create a protected route around the identifying traces left by email, phones, and ordinary web services. Its difficulty, the care required to check it, and the public signal sent by offering it all formed part of the protection. A promise to shield a source matters more when the technical system reduces how much the reporter can be compelled to reveal. The report was the first published study of SecureDrop's adoption in newsrooms. I later trained reporters in operational security and brought the research into day-to-day editorial practice. Original and Related Work ------------------------- Guide to SecureDrop Open the complete Tow Center report on how newsrooms adopted and operated SecureDrop. https://charlesberret.net/shared/2016-berret-tow-securedrop.pdf Columbia Journalism Review Read the report's web edition and overview at Columbia Journalism Review. https://www.cjr.org/tow_center_reports/guide_to_securedrop.php Academic Commons record Open Columbia's repository record for publication metadata, citation, and downloadable files. https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/D84178B2 SecureDrop research Browse the SecureDrop project's research library, including this study and later related work. https://securedrop.org/research/ Canonical page: https://charlesberret.net/projects/#securedrop Plaintext: https://charlesberret.net/projects/securedrop.txt Typography and the Web ====================== Type: Writing and Research Organization: Journal of Visual Culture, Google Design, and HTTP Archive Dates: 2014-26 Topics: Typography, Web fonts, Media history, HTTP Archive Summary ------- Research and writing on type as both cultural form and technical infrastructure, from the history of Impact to web fonts measured across millions of sites. Project Notes ------------- My writing about typography follows type across several scales: the history of a single face, the choices built into a font file, and the aggregate behavior of millions of websites. The methods change with the scale, from archival and interview research to technical explanation and empirical analysis. With Kate Brideau, I traced Impact from metal type through its inclusion in Microsoft's core fonts for the web to its role as a default in meme generators. The article argues that standards and constraints do not merely make images repetitive. They create a recognizable form within which small changes can become legible. For Google Design, I wrote an introductory guide to choosing web fonts. For the HTTP Archive's Web Almanac, I co-wrote the 2024 Fonts chapter with Bram Stein and wrote the 2025 chapter, published in January 2026. Those reports measure the use of web fonts, formats, delivery methods, variable fonts, and writing systems at the scale of the public web. Together, the projects treat typography as something people read, software executes, and culture makes meaningful. Original and Related Work ------------------------- Web Almanac Fonts 2025 Read the 2025 analysis of web-font formats, loading behavior, variable fonts, and typography trends. https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2025/fonts Web Almanac Fonts 2024 Read the 2024 data chapter on how fonts are selected, delivered, and rendered across the web. https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2024/fonts Impact, the meme font Open the full Journal of Visual Culture article on Impact's history and use in image macros. https://charlesberret.net/shared/2014-berret-brideau-jvc-impact.pdf Impact article DOI Open the persistent publication record and citation details for the Impact article. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470412914544515 Choosing Web Fonts Read a practical Google Design guide to evaluating and choosing typefaces for web projects. https://design.google/library/choosing-web-fonts-beginners-guide Canonical page: https://charlesberret.net/projects/#typography-and-the-web Plaintext: https://charlesberret.net/projects/typography-and-the-web.txt Writing and Publications ======================== Cryptographic Amnesia ===================== Date: forthcoming Venue: MIT Press Synopsis -------- Cryptographic Amnesia is a cultural history of how codes and ciphers moved from the margins of everyday life to its infrastructure. Rather than treating cryptography as a sequence of technical breakthroughs or instruments of war, the book follows its civilian uses and meanings across the twentieth century: as a way to protect secrets, verify identity, conduct commerce, resist surveillance, and organize political life. Based on archival research, long-form interviews, and public records, it asks how a technical practice came to carry such broad claims about freedom, trust, and power. The result is a people's history of cryptography and a newly usable past for anyone who relies on encryption today. LINKS Publisher page Read the complete publication on its publisher or project page. https://charlesberret.net/writing/#writing-cryptographic-amnesia How Much Is a Verification Worth? ================================= Date: 2026-06-18 Venue: Enigma Role: Research contribution (institutional byline) Synopsis -------- What is a single identity verification actually worth? A dollar figure, built up from Enigma's data. Note: Published under Enigma’s institutional byline. Part of the agentic data-journalism research pipeline described under Projects → Data Journalism. LINKS Publisher page Read the complete publication on its publisher or project page. https://www.enigma.com/resources/blog/enigma-newsletter-how-much-is-a-verification-worth How to Sue a Company That Doesn't Even Exist ============================================ Date: 2026-06-04 Venue: Enigma Role: Research contribution (institutional byline) Synopsis -------- Surfaced 8,747 federal mass-defendant cases from the RECAP archive to show how mass-litigation targets businesses that don't really exist. Note: Published under Enigma’s institutional byline. Part of the agentic data-journalism research pipeline described under Projects → Data Journalism. LINKS Publisher page Read the complete publication on its publisher or project page. https://www.enigma.com/resources/blog/enigma-newsletter-americas-most-sued-companies-dont-exist Anatomy of a Shell Company ========================== Date: 2026-05-07 Venue: Enigma Role: Research contribution (institutional byline) Synopsis -------- What a shell company actually looks like, and how shared addresses, agents, and officers expose the networks behind them. Note: Published under Enigma’s institutional byline. Part of the agentic data-journalism research pipeline described under Projects → Data Journalism. LINKS Publisher page Read the complete publication on its publisher or project page. https://www.enigma.com/resources/blog/enigma-newsletter-anatomy-of-a-shell-company Can Business Data Predict March Madness? ======================================== Date: 2026-04-09 Venue: Enigma Role: Research contribution (institutional byline) Synopsis -------- Can the business fabric of a college town predict a March Madness winner? A test against recent tournament cities. Note: Published under Enigma’s institutional byline. Part of the agentic data-journalism research pipeline described under Projects → Data Journalism. LINKS Publisher page Read the complete publication on its publisher or project page. https://www.enigma.com/resources/blog/can-business-data-predict-march-madness Wyoming's Corporate Boom ======================== Date: 2026-03-12 Venue: Enigma Role: Research contribution (institutional byline) Synopsis -------- The state structures that make anonymous business ownership a paid feature. Note: Published under Enigma’s institutional byline. Part of the agentic data-journalism research pipeline described under Projects → Data Journalism. LINKS Publisher page Read the complete publication on its publisher or project page. https://www.enigma.com/resources/blog/enigma-newsletter-wyomings-corporate-boom No Branches, No Verification, No Problem ======================================== Date: 2026-02-26 Venue: Enigma Role: Research contribution (institutional byline) Synopsis -------- How a Colorado licensing carve-out concentrated more than half of all crypto-named money-service-business registrants in a single state. Note: Published under Enigma’s institutional byline. Part of the agentic data-journalism research pipeline described under Projects → Data Journalism. LINKS Publisher page Read the complete publication on its publisher or project page. https://www.enigma.com/resources/blog/enigma-newsletter-no-branches-no-verification-no-problem The Drug Testing Lab Industry ============================= Date: 2026-02-12 Venue: Enigma Role: Research contribution (institutional byline) Synopsis -------- Regional variation, cannabis correlations, and fragmentation across the drug-testing lab industry. Note: Published under Enigma’s institutional byline. Part of the agentic data-journalism research pipeline described under Projects → Data Journalism. LINKS Publisher page Read the complete publication on its publisher or project page. https://www.enigma.com/resources/blog/enigma-newsletter-the-drug-testing-lab-industry When Compliance Is Skin Deep ============================ Date: 2026-01-29 Venue: Enigma Role: Research contribution (institutional byline) Synopsis -------- How med spas use their business structure and registration to work around medical-practice rules. Note: Published under Enigma’s institutional byline. Part of the agentic data-journalism research pipeline described under Projects → Data Journalism. LINKS Publisher page Read the complete publication on its publisher or project page. https://www.enigma.com/resources/blog/enigma-newsletter-when-compliance-is-skin-deep Fonts ===== Date: 2026-01-15 Venue: Web Almanac · HTTP Archive Role: Writer and analyst Synopsis -------- How the web actually uses type, measured across millions of sites: what fonts get loaded, in what formats, and at what cost to the page. LINKS Publisher page Read the complete publication on its publisher or project page. https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2025/fonts Filed Under Fiction =================== Date: 2026-01-15 Venue: Enigma Role: Research contribution (institutional byline) Synopsis -------- The implausible, unvalidated officer names that slip into official state business registrations. Note: Published under Enigma’s institutional byline. Part of the agentic data-journalism research pipeline described under Projects → Data Journalism. LINKS Publisher page Read the complete publication on its publisher or project page. https://www.enigma.com/resources/blog/filed-under-fiction OpenRoundup: Multi-Table Data Wrangling Through Interactive Visualization ========================================================================= Date: 2026 Venue: arXiv preprint Role: Co-author and academic advisor With: Stephen Kasica (lead author), Tamara Munzner Synopsis -------- An interactive take on multi-table data wrangling that continues the work begun in Table Scraps. Note: Lead author: Stephen Kasica. Charles co-authored as academic advisor on the doctoral research; these are not sole or primary publications of his. LINKS arXiv record Read the preprint abstract, full text, and version history on arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12648 Match Points: A Field Guide to Business Identity ================================================ Date: 2025-12-18 Venue: Enigma Role: Research contribution (institutional byline) Synopsis -------- How to read a business's identity beyond its state filings: address clusters, contact graphs, zombie entities, and sudden proliferation. Note: Published under Enigma’s institutional byline. Part of the agentic data-journalism research pipeline described under Projects → Data Journalism. LINKS Publisher page Read the complete publication on its publisher or project page. https://www.enigma.com/resources/blog/enigma-newsletter-matchpoints-a-field-guide-to-business-identity Lifecycles of Vice Merchants ============================ Date: 2025-12-11 Venue: Enigma Role: Research contribution (institutional byline) Synopsis -------- How long businesses in the vice trades survive, compared across several categories. Note: Published under Enigma’s institutional byline. Part of the agentic data-journalism research pipeline described under Projects → Data Journalism. LINKS Publisher page Read the complete publication on its publisher or project page. https://www.enigma.com/resources/blog/enigma-newsletter-lifecycles-of-vice-merchants The Geography of Corporate America ================================== Date: 2025-11-25 Venue: Enigma Role: Research contribution (institutional byline) Synopsis -------- A jurisdictional map of where corporate America incorporates, and why. Note: Published under Enigma’s institutional byline. Part of the agentic data-journalism research pipeline described under Projects → Data Journalism. LINKS Publisher page Read the complete publication on its publisher or project page. https://www.enigma.com/resources/blog/enigma-newsletter-geography-of-corporate-america Slice Slice Baby ================ Date: 2025-11-13 Venue: Enigma Role: Research contribution (institutional byline) Synopsis -------- What a viral pizza review is actually worth, traced through review scores, revenue, foot traffic, and geography. Note: Published under Enigma’s institutional byline. Part of the agentic data-journalism research pipeline described under Projects → Data Journalism. LINKS Publisher page Read the complete publication on its publisher or project page. https://www.enigma.com/resources/blog/enigma-newsletter-whats-the-value-of-a-viral-pizza-review The Michelin Effect =================== Date: 2025-10-30 Venue: Enigma Role: Research contribution (institutional byline) Synopsis -------- Revenue, geography, and star status, compared across more than 1,700 restaurants. Note: Published under Enigma’s institutional byline. Part of the agentic data-journalism research pipeline described under Projects → Data Journalism. LINKS Publisher page Read the complete publication on its publisher or project page. https://www.enigma.com/resources/blog/enigma-newsletter-the-michelin-effect Spirits of Retail Past ====================== Date: 2025-10-09 Venue: Enigma Role: Research contribution (institutional byline) Synopsis -------- How seasonal Halloween stores occupy and reuse the empty shells of former retail space. Note: Published under Enigma’s institutional byline. Part of the agentic data-journalism research pipeline described under Projects → Data Journalism. LINKS Publisher page Read the complete publication on its publisher or project page. https://www.enigma.com/resources/blog/enigma-newsletter-spirits-of-retail-past-oct-2025 Iceberg Sensemaking: A Process Model for Critical Data Analysis and Visualization ================================================================================= Date: 2025 Venue: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (IEEE VIS) Role: Co-author With: Tamara Munzner Synopsis -------- A process model for the hidden, below-the-waterline work of critical data analysis, reframed through an interpretivist lens. Note: With Tamara Munzner. Related newsroom data papers led by Stephen Kasica are listed separately under advisor co-authorship. LINKS arXiv record Read the preprint abstract, full text, and version history on arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.04758 Equipment for Living ==================== Date: 2025 Venue: School for Poetic Computation With: Rosalie Yu Synopsis -------- Teaching photography, photogrammetry, and world-building as ways to think about memory, ritual, collaboration, and the ordinary business of living. LINKS Publisher page Read the complete publication on its publisher or project page. https://sfpc.study/blog/equipment-for-living Fonts ===== Date: 2024-11-11 Venue: Web Almanac · HTTP Archive Role: Co-writer and editor With: Bram Stein Synopsis -------- Web typography at global scale, from font formats and delivery to variable fonts, icons, and how type actually renders. LINKS Publisher page Read the complete publication on its publisher or project page. https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2024/fonts The Lifespan of Ephemera: Reflections on Collaborative Art and the Embodiment of Data ===================================================================================== Date: 2024 Venue: Beyond Academic Publics · Linköping University Press With: Rosalie Yu Synopsis -------- A look back at Knowing Together, and what a digital model can and cannot preserve of an embodied, collaborative experience. LINKS On-site PDF Open or download the complete publication as a PDF. https://charlesberret.net/shared/2024-berret-yu-lifespan-of-ephemera.pdf The Drawbridge Model of Cryptographic Communication =================================================== Date: 2024 Venue: OSF Synopsis -------- Cryptography as a drawbridge on the communications bridge: raising and lowering access without tearing the channel down. LINKS Publisher page Read the complete publication on its publisher or project page. https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/nmbwj Dirty Data in the Newsroom: Comparing Data Preparation in Journalism and Data Science ===================================================================================== Date: 2023 Venue: ACM CHI Role: Co-author and academic advisor With: Stephen Kasica (lead author), Tamara Munzner Recognition: Best Paper Honorable Mention Synopsis -------- An ethnography of how journalists and data scientists actually clean data. Note: Lead author: Stephen Kasica. Charles co-authored as academic advisor on the doctoral research; these are not sole or primary publications of his. LINKS On-site PDF Open or download the complete publication as a PDF. https://charlesberret.net/shared/2023-kasica-berret-munzner-dirtydata.pdf Table Scraps: An Actionable Framework for Multi-Table Data Wrangling from an Artifact Study of Computational Journalism ======================================================================================================================= Date: 2020 Venue: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics Role: Co-author and academic advisor With: Stephen Kasica (lead author), Tamara Munzner Synopsis -------- A framework for wrangling data spread across many tables, built from an artifact study of computational-journalism notebooks and pipelines. Note: Lead author: Stephen Kasica. Charles co-authored as academic advisor on the doctoral research; these are not sole or primary publications of his. LINKS On-site PDF Open or download the complete publication as a PDF. https://charlesberret.net/shared/2020-kasica-berret-munzner-tablescraps.pdf Knowing Together: An Experiment in Collaborative Photogrammetry =============================================================== Date: 2019 Venue: Leonardo · ACM SIGGRAPH Art Gallery With: Rosalie Yu Synopsis -------- A collaborative photogrammetry experiment that preserved distortion as evidence of the people and process behind a 3D image. LINKS DOI Open the persistent publication record and its citation details. https://doi.org/10.1145/3306211.3320139 The Cultural Contradictions of Cryptography =========================================== Date: 2019 Venue: Columbia University Synopsis -------- The doctoral dissertation behind Cryptographic Amnesia, examining how cryptography acquired new cultural and political meanings in twentieth-century America. Note: The on-site file contains selected excerpts. LINKS On-site PDF Open or download the complete publication as a PDF. https://charlesberret.net/shared/2018-berret-diss-final-excerpts.pdf Choosing Web Fonts: A Beginner's Guide ====================================== Date: 2018 Venue: Google Design Role: Writer Synopsis -------- A beginner's guide that chooses a web font the right way round, starting from the content, its readers, the languages it has to cover, and what the browser has to do to render it. LINKS Publisher page Read the complete publication on its publisher or project page. https://design.google/library/choosing-web-fonts-beginners-guide The New Wave of Indian Type =========================== Date: 2018 Venue: Google Design Role: Writer Synopsis -------- The designers remaking Indian type for a moment when scripts, technologies, and reading habits are all changing at once. LINKS Publisher page Read the complete publication on its publisher or project page. https://design.google/library/new-wave-indian-type-design Modernizing Arabic Type for a Digital Audience ============================================== Date: 2018 Venue: Google Design Role: Writer Synopsis -------- The design and engineering decisions behind bringing Arabic typography onto digital screens. LINKS Publisher page Read the complete publication on its publisher or project page. https://design.google/library/modernizing-arabic-typography-type-design The Android Developer's Guide to Better Typography ================================================== Date: 2017-12-05 Venue: Google Design Role: Editor Synopsis -------- A technical guide by Rod Sheeter to using downloadable fonts and making more deliberate typographic choices in Android applications. Note: Edited by Charles Berret. Written by Rod Sheeter. LINKS Publisher page Read the complete publication on its publisher or project page. https://medium.com/google-design/the-android-developers-guide-to-better-typography-97e11bb0e261 Walter Benjamin and the Question of Print in Media History ========================================================== Date: 2017 Venue: Journal of Communication Inquiry Synopsis -------- Reads Benjamin’s theory of print as a media history problem: how a technology of reproduction reshapes what counts as culture. LINKS On-site PDF Open or download the complete publication as a PDF. https://charlesberret.net/shared/2017-berret-jci-benjamin-print.pdf Newsrooms Are Making Leaking Easier, and More Secure, Than Ever =============================================================== Date: 2017 Venue: Columbia Journalism Review Synopsis -------- How SecureDrop-era tooling made leaking easier for sources and safer for newsrooms, without trading one for the other. LINKS Publisher page Read the complete publication on its publisher or project page. https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/newsrooms-trump-leaks-secure.php Scripting Cyrillic ================== Date: 2017 Venue: Google Design Role: Writer Synopsis -------- The history and contemporary craft of designing type for the Cyrillic script. LINKS Publisher page Read the complete publication on its publisher or project page. https://design.google/library/scripting-cyrillic Hot Type, Always Fresh ====================== Date: 2017 Venue: Google Design Role: Writer Synopsis -------- Foundry practice, display type, and the constant reinvention of typographic form. LINKS Publisher page Read the complete publication on its publisher or project page. https://design.google/library/hot-type-always-fresh Guide to SecureDrop: An Emerging Platform for Secure and Anonymous Communication in Newsrooms ============================================================================================= Date: 2016 Venue: Tow Center for Digital Journalism Synopsis -------- The first published study of how newsrooms adopted SecureDrop for secure communication with anonymous sources. LINKS On-site PDF Open or download the complete publication as a PDF. https://charlesberret.net/shared/2016-berret-tow-securedrop.pdf Teaching Data and Computational Journalism ========================================== Date: 2016 Venue: Knight Foundation With: Cheryl Phillips Synopsis -------- A national study of data-journalism teaching at 113 programs, with practical models for developing computational curricula. LINKS On-site PDF Open or download the complete publication as a PDF. https://charlesberret.net/shared/2016-berret-phillips-knight-teaching-data.pdf A Crucial Skill That Most J-Schools Aren't Teaching =================================================== Date: 2016 Venue: Columbia Journalism Review With: Cheryl Phillips Synopsis -------- Why journalism schools need computational literacy, not as a specialty, but as a core skill for reporting in a data-shaped world. LINKS Publisher page Read the complete publication on its publisher or project page. https://www.cjr.org/analysis/data.php A Brief Introduction to Impact: 'The Meme Font' =============================================== Date: 2014 Venue: Journal of Visual Culture With: Kate Brideau Synopsis -------- A cultural history of Impact, the typeface that became the definitive look of the image macro and the internet meme. LINKS On-site PDF Open or download the complete publication as a PDF. https://charlesberret.net/shared/2014-berret-brideau-jvc-impact.pdf Sensors and Sensibilia: A Historical Survey =========================================== Date: 2014 Venue: Sensor Journalism · Tow Center for Digital Journalism Synopsis -------- A history of sensing technology, and how measurement devices changed what a journalist can observe in the first place. LINKS On-site PDF Open or download the complete publication as a PDF. https://charlesberret.net/shared/2014-berret-tow-sensors.pdf Gerhard Richter: A Life in Painting =================================== Date: 2010 Venue: TriQuarterly Synopsis -------- On Dietmar Elger's biography of the painter Gerhard Richter. LINKS Publisher page Read the complete publication on its publisher or project page. https://www.triquarterly.org/the-latest-word/reviews/gerhard-richter-life-painting No Such Thing as Silence ======================== Date: 2010 Venue: TriQuarterly Synopsis -------- On Kyle Gann's study of John Cage's silent composition 4'33". LINKS Publisher page Read the complete publication on its publisher or project page. https://www.triquarterly.org/the-latest-word/reviews/no-such-thing-silence-kyle-gann Software and Project Sites ========================== Capture ======= DATE current TYPE Software ROLE Creator RECORD Annotated record SUMMARY Text, voice, images, and PDFs go in; plain Markdown notes come out, all handled locally on your own machine. LINKS Source repository Browse the source code, setup instructions, and project history on GitHub. https://github.com/charlesberret/capture GitHub, Current Account ======================= DATE current TYPE Code Profile RECORD Supporting record SUMMARY Independent software, research tools, and experiments, kept as current public repositories. LINKS GitHub profile Browse current public repositories, documentation, release history, and source code. https://github.com/charlesberret GitHub, Earlier Account ======================= DATE archival TYPE Code Profile RECORD Supporting record SUMMARY Earlier repositories and research code from the Columbia and UBC years. LINKS GitHub profile Browse earlier repositories and research code from the Columbia and UBC years. https://github.com/cberret Enigma Government Archive ========================= DATE 2026-03-26 TYPE Product launch VENUE Enigma ROLE Launch writer and content lead RECORD Annotated record SUMMARY Thousands of government datasets and billions of records, gathered into Enigma's Government Archive; led the writing and content strategy for the launch. LINKS Product announcement Read Enigma's launch article describing the product and its public-data scope. https://www.enigma.com/resources/blog/enigma-government-archive Knowing Together ================ DATE 2019 TYPE Project Site ROLE Co-creator RECORD Annotated record SUMMARY Thirty-five people made shared 3D images together in a collaborative photogrammetry experiment; this is its project site. LINKS Project site Explore the collaborative images, process, and public presentation of Knowing Together. https://knowing-together.rosalieyu.com/ Exhibition history See where the project was exhibited and how each presentation was framed. https://knowing-together.rosalieyu.com/Exhibitions Talks and Media =============== Iceberg Sensemaking =================== DATE 2025-11-07 TYPE Conference Slides VENUE IEEE VIS RECORD Supporting record SUMMARY Iceberg Sensemaking, a model of the visible and hidden labor of working with complex data, laid out in the presentation slides. LINKS Talk slides Open the complete IEEE VIS presentation deck as a PDF. https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~tmm/talks/iceberg25/IcebergSensemaking-4x4.pdf Metis and the Hacker ==================== DATE 2024-12-18 TYPE Podcast VENUE Hacker Cultures RECORD Annotated record SUMMARY Metis, cunning intelligence, and the cultural history of hacking, worked through in conversation. LINKS Listen Stream the podcast conversation and read the episode notes. https://www.buzzsprout.com/1323889/episodes/15902358-episode-1-2024-charles-berret-metis-and-the-hacker Conference program Open the EASST and 4S program documenting the session and conference context. https://easst.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/EASST-4S-2024-PDF-program-1.pdf The Drawbridge Model of Cryptographic Communication =================================================== DATE 2024 TYPE Keynote VENUE WASP Forum on AI and Cybersecurity RECORD Supporting record SUMMARY Cryptographic communication as staged access, not a simple open-or-closed channel: a keynote on the Drawbridge Model. LINKS CV record Open the public CV entry documenting the keynote, date, and venue. https://charlesberret.net/about/cv/ Feminist Technoscience ====================== DATE 2024 TYPE Guest Lecture VENUE Linköping University RECORD Supporting record SUMMARY Feminist approaches to science and technology, with attention to knowledge, power, institutions, and design, in a guest lecture. LINKS CV record Open the public CV entry documenting the lecture, date, and institution. https://charlesberret.net/about/cv/ Dirty Data in the Newsroom ========================== DATE 2023 TYPE Conference Video VENUE ACM CHI ROLE Co-author and academic advisor (lead author Stephen Kasica) RECORD Supporting record SUMMARY How journalists recognize, repair, and reason through dirty data in newsroom investigations, from field research presented on video. LINKS Paper video Watch the conference video summarizing the study and its findings from newsroom practice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLf1AKlVWRY Scholarly Research in Plaintext =============================== DATE 2023 TYPE Workshop VENUE Linköping University Data Lab RECORD Supporting record SUMMARY Plain-text formats and lightweight tools that make scholarly research more durable, portable, and reproducible, taught as a hands-on workshop. LINKS CV record Open the public CV entry documenting the workshop and its institutional setting. https://charlesberret.net/about/cv/ If Communication Is a Bridge, Cryptography Is a Drawbridge ========================================================== DATE 2022 TYPE Conference Talk VENUE International Communication Association RECORD Supporting record SUMMARY The Drawbridge Model as a way to understand selective access, secrecy, and trust in cryptographic communication. LINKS CV record Open the public CV entry documenting the ICA talk, date, and venue. https://charlesberret.net/about/cv/ Newsroom Sensemaking ==================== DATE 2021 TYPE Conference Talk VENUE Computation and Journalism Symposium RECORD Supporting record SUMMARY How journalists make sense of data in practice, including the often invisible work of cleaning and interpretation. LINKS Conference program See the symposium schedule and session listing for this talk. https://cj2021.northeastern.edu/schedule-and-program/ Table Scraps ============ DATE 2020 TYPE Conference Video VENUE IEEE InfoVis ROLE Co-author and academic advisor (lead author Stephen Kasica) RECORD Supporting record SUMMARY The hidden work of repairing, interpreting, and reshaping messy tables before they can be analyzed, presented on video. LINKS Paper video Watch the conference video summarizing the paper's question, methods, and findings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woyuvqUu52I Information, Entropy, and Play ============================== DATE 2020 TYPE Conference Talk VENUE What Is Information?, University of Oregon RECORD Supporting record SUMMARY Information theory, entropy, and play as three ways of understanding uncertainty, rules, and interpretation. LINKS CV record Open the public CV entry documenting the talk and conference. https://charlesberret.net/about/cv/ Data, Visualization, the Press, and Public Opinion ================================================== DATE 2019-03-26 TYPE Invited Talk VENUE University of British Columbia RECORD Annotated record SUMMARY Data journalism and visualization, and the institutions that turn them into public knowledge: a public lecture. LINKS Talk video Watch the complete public lecture and presentation on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ4UOPDvjfg Two Varieties of Digital Utopianism =================================== DATE 2019 TYPE Conference Talk VENUE What Is Technology?, University of Oregon RECORD Supporting record SUMMARY Two traditions of digital utopianism, and their competing ideas about technology, community, and social change. LINKS CV record Open the public CV entry documenting the talk and conference. https://charlesberret.net/about/cv/ Collecting Randomness for the Vernam System =========================================== DATE 2017 TYPE Conference Talk VENUE Society for the History of Technology RECORD Supporting record SUMMARY A history-of-technology talk on where the Vernam cipher got its randomness, and what it took to turn noise into a working key. LINKS CV record Open the public CV entry documenting the SHOT presentation. https://charlesberret.net/about/cv/ Teaching Data and Computational Journalism ========================================== DATE 2016 TYPE Conference Talk VENUE AEJMC RECORD Supporting record SUMMARY What journalism programs actually teach about data and computation, drawing on the Teaching Data and Computational Journalism research. LINKS CV record Open the public CV entry documenting the AEJMC presentation. https://charlesberret.net/about/cv/ Understanding SecureDrop ======================== DATE 2015 TYPE Conference Talk VENUE Society for Social Studies of Science RECORD Supporting record SUMMARY How news organizations adopt and use SecureDrop for anonymous sources, based on interviews and newsroom research. LINKS CV record Open the public CV entry documenting the 4S presentation. https://charlesberret.net/about/cv/ The Techniques and Aesthetics of Phototypesetting ================================================= DATE 2012 TYPE Conference Talk VENUE Society for the History of Technology RECORD Supporting record SUMMARY How phototypesetting changed both the techniques of composition and the visual possibilities of printed text, a history-of-technology talk. LINKS CV record Open the public CV entry documenting the SHOT presentation. https://charlesberret.net/about/cv/ Teaching ======== Equipment for Living ==================== DATE Spring 2025 TYPE Course VENUE School for Poetic Computation ROLE Co-instructor with Rosalie Yu RECORD Annotated record SUMMARY Media theory meets photography, 3D scanning, and Unity world-building over ten weeks. LINKS Course page Read the course themes, format, schedule, and teaching context on the SFPC site. https://sfpc.study/sessions/spring-25/equipment-for-living Teaching essay Read the instructors' reflection on the course's ideas, exercises, and student work. https://sfpc.study/blog/equipment-for-living Student project archive Browse the Unity worlds, essays, and other projects created by course participants. https://projects.sfpc.study/equipment-for-living/ Equipment for Living Student Archive ==================================== DATE 2025 TYPE Student Project Archive VENUE School for Poetic Computation RECORD Supporting record SUMMARY Student-built Unity worlds and essays, browsable together, showing how participants translated theory into collaborative digital environments. LINKS Browse projects Browse the individual Unity worlds, essays, and project documentation. https://projects.sfpc.study/equipment-for-living/ Archive overview Read the archive's framing text and learn how the collection is organized. https://projects.sfpc.study/equipment-for-living/about.html Gender and Diversity in Engineering =================================== DATE 2023 TYPE Graduate Course VENUE Linköping University ROLE Instructor RECORD Supporting record SUMMARY How gender, diversity, and institutional power shape engineering practice and technological systems, taught as a graduate course. LINKS CV record Open the public CV entry documenting the course and teaching appointment. https://charlesberret.net/about/cv/ Journalism Practices and Standards ================================== DATE 2020 TYPE Course VENUE University of British Columbia ROLE Instructor RECORD Supporting record SUMMARY Reporting standards, verification, ethics, sourcing, and the everyday routines that make journalism credible. LINKS UBC faculty profile Read the institutional profile listing this course and the wider UBC teaching program. https://jwam.ubc.ca/news/charles-berret/ Investigative Journalism ======================== DATE 2018-20 TYPE Course VENUE University of British Columbia ROLE Instructor RECORD Supporting record SUMMARY Developing public-interest investigations through source building, document research, verification, and collaborative reporting. LINKS UBC faculty profile Read the institutional profile listing this course and related UBC work. https://jwam.ubc.ca/news/charles-berret/ Data Visualization ================== DATE 2018-19 TYPE Course VENUE University of British Columbia ROLE Instructor RECORD Supporting record SUMMARY Designing and evaluating visual explanations of data, with attention to evidence, uncertainty, and public communication. LINKS UBC faculty profile Read the institutional profile listing this course and related UBC work. https://jwam.ubc.ca/news/charles-berret/ The Digital Newsroom ==================== DATE 2018 TYPE Course VENUE Yeshiva University ROLE Writer-in-Residence RECORD Supporting record SUMMARY Reporting and publishing with digital tools inside a working newsroom, taught as a practice-based course. LINKS CV record Open the public CV entry documenting the course and writer-in-residence appointment. https://charlesberret.net/about/cv/ Press, Profiles, and Citations ============================== ORCID 0000-0002-2796-6820 ========================= DATE current TYPE Research Identifier RECORD Supporting record SUMMARY A persistent identifier that consolidates Charles's scholarly identity and publication record across institutions. LINKS ORCID record Open the ORCID profile for identity, affiliation, and publication metadata. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2796-6820 Google Scholar ============== DATE current TYPE Citation Profile RECORD Supporting record SUMMARY Scholarly publications, co-authors, citation counts, and related research, aggregated into one citation profile. LINKS Scholar profile Browse indexed publications, citation counts, co-authors, and related works. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=t9HoMqYAAAAJ SecureDrop Research =================== DATE current TYPE Official Citation VENUE Freedom of the Press Foundation RECORD Supporting record SUMMARY Freedom of the Press Foundation's research directory listing the Guide to SecureDrop among the project's official studies and resources. LINKS Official research listing Browse the official SecureDrop research directory and its link to the guide. https://securedrop.org/research/ Charles Berret, SIGGRAPH History Archives ========================================= DATE archival TYPE Person Record VENUE ACM SIGGRAPH RECORD Supporting record SUMMARY An ACM SIGGRAPH person record linking Charles to Knowing Together and its Art Gallery exhibition history. LINKS Person record Open the archival SIGGRAPH profile and its linked exhibition records. https://history.siggraph.org/person/charles-berret/ Lead Found in Whistler Tap Water ================================ DATE 2019-12-16 TYPE Reporting Coverage VENUE Global News ROLE Faculty supervisor RECORD Supporting record SUMMARY Global News reporting from the Tainted Water collaboration on lead found in Whistler tap water, with Charles credited as faculty supervisor. LINKS Read the coverage Read the published investigation, findings, and local reporting context. https://globalnews.ca/news/6301590/whistler-safe-water-lead/ UBC Journalism Students Investigate Tainted Tap Water ===================================================== DATE 2019-11-01 TYPE Institutional Coverage VENUE University of British Columbia ROLE Faculty supervisor RECORD Supporting record SUMMARY UBC's account of the Tainted Water investigation, its cross-newsroom collaboration, and Charles's role as faculty supervisor. LINKS Project coverage Read the UBC overview of the investigation, participating students, and partner newsrooms. https://jwam.ubc.ca/news/ubc-journalism-students-investigate-tainted-tap-water/ SIGGRAPH Showcase for Knowing Together ====================================== DATE 2019-07-31 TYPE Institutional Coverage VENUE University of British Columbia RECORD Supporting record SUMMARY UBC reports on Knowing Together and its selection as a SIGGRAPH Art Gallery best-in-show finalist. LINKS Read the coverage Read UBC's account of the project, collaboration, and SIGGRAPH recognition. https://jwam.ubc.ca/news/siggraph-showcase-for-project-by-ubc-j-prof-charles-berret/ Charles Berret, UBC Journalism ============================== DATE 2018-09-13 TYPE Institutional Profile VENUE University of British Columbia RECORD Supporting record SUMMARY A UBC profile covering research on cryptography and journalism, the Teaching Data and SecureDrop reports, and the courses taught there. LINKS Faculty profile Read the UBC biography, research overview, and teaching record. https://jwam.ubc.ca/news/charles-berret/ Charles Berret, Brown Institute =============================== DATE 2017-18 TYPE Fellow Profile VENUE Brown Institute for Media Innovation RECORD Supporting record SUMMARY A Brown Institute fellow profile covering work on cryptography, journalism, and the Magic Grant-supported Web Transparency project. LINKS Fellow profile Read the Brown Institute biography and project affiliations. https://brown.columbia.edu/portfolio/charles-berret/ New Curriculum Available for Data Journalism Programs ===================================================== DATE 2017-03 TYPE Citation VENUE Tableau RECORD Supporting record SUMMARY Tableau's account of how the Teaching Data report informed a new curriculum. LINKS Read the citation Read Tableau's account of the report's influence on a data-journalism curriculum. https://www.tableau.com/fr-fr/community/blog/2017/03/new-curriculum-available-data-journalism-programs Charles Berret, Uses This ========================= DATE 2016-12-06 TYPE Interview RECORD Annotated record SUMMARY Research tools, archives, Markdown, open systems, and the practical work behind SecureDrop and data journalism, covered in a long interview. LINKS Read the interview Read the full interview about tools, research habits, archives, and open systems. https://usesthis.com/interviews/charles.berret/ Guide to SecureDrop, Report Launch ================================== DATE 2016-06-02 TYPE Event Record VENUE Tow Center for Digital Journalism RECORD Supporting record SUMMARY Two Tow Center announcements for the Guide to SecureDrop: the public launch event and an introduction to the report's findings. LINKS Report launch Read the invitation and program for the public report-launch event. https://medium.com/tow-center/report-launch-guide-to-securedrop-c767c7ae6b75 Report announcement Read the Tow Center's introduction to the report and its research questions. https://medium.com/tow-center/new-report-guide-to-securedrop-f0928254685a SecureDrop Use Is Growing in Newsrooms ====================================== DATE 2016-05-13 TYPE Press Coverage VENUE Nieman Lab RECORD Supporting record SUMMARY Nieman Lab reports on the Guide to SecureDrop and its findings about newsroom adoption. LINKS Read the coverage Read Nieman Lab's account of the report's findings and newsroom response. https://www.niemanlab.org/2016/05/securedrop-use-is-growing-in-newsrooms-but-security-fears-mean-few-will-detail-exactly-how-they-use-it/ Charles Berret, Tow Center ========================== DATE 2015-16 TYPE Fellow Profile VENUE Tow Center for Digital Journalism RECORD Supporting record SUMMARY A Tow Center fellow profile documenting research on information systems and the fellowship behind the Guide to SecureDrop. LINKS Fellow profile Read the Tow Center biography and fellowship research context. https://towcenter.columbia.edu/content/charles-berret Web Transparency and SearchLight ================================ DATE 2014-15 TYPE Project Record VENUE Brown Institute for Media Innovation ROLE Researcher RECORD Annotated record SUMMARY A Brown Institute project into the technologies and commercial relationships embedded in web pages. LINKS Project page Read the Brown Institute overview of the research question, team, and SearchLight tool. https://brown.columbia.edu/portfolio/web-transparency/ Brown at ITP Summer Camp ======================== DATE 2014-06-03 TYPE Program Record VENUE Brown Institute for Media Innovation RECORD Supporting record SUMMARY A Brown Institute program record of a summer workshop at ITP and the fellows who took part. LINKS Program record Read the workshop recap, participant list, and program context. https://brown.columbia.edu/brown-at-itp-summer-camp/ Stanford and Columbia Announce Magic Grants =========================================== DATE 2014-05-06 TYPE Grant Announcement VENUE Stanford Engineering RECORD Supporting record SUMMARY Stanford's announcement of the 2014 Magic Grants, including the team behind De-Glass and the project that became Web Transparency and SearchLight. LINKS Grant announcement Read the official announcement, project descriptions, and named grant teams. https://engineering.stanford.edu/news/stanford-and-columbia-university-announce-magic-grants-transform-media Awards and Support ================== Best Paper Honorable Mention ============================ DATE 2023 TYPE Award VENUE ACM CHI ROLE Co-author and academic advisor (lead author Stephen Kasica) RECORD Supporting record SUMMARY Honorable mention for Dirty Data in the Newsroom, led by Stephen Kasica with co-authors Charles Berret and Tamara Munzner. Charles's role was academic advisor and co-author on the doctoral research, not sole or lead authorship. LINKS Project page Open the research page for the abstract, authors, paper, video, and award record. https://www.cs.ubc.ca/group/infovis/pubs/2023/dirty-data-in-the-newsroom/ WASP-HS Research Support ======================== DATE 2022-24 TYPE Research Support VENUE Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program RECORD Supporting record SUMMARY Research support from WASP-HS for work on cryptographic communication and the Drawbridge Model. LINKS CV record Open the public CV entry documenting the research support and period. https://charlesberret.net/about/cv/ 2019 Data Journalism Award ========================== DATE 2020-05-30 TYPE Award VENUE Canadian Association of Journalists ROLE Faculty supervisor, Tainted Water RECORD Annotated record SUMMARY Tainted Water, by the Institute for Investigative Journalism and its media partners, received the 2019 Canadian Association of Journalists Data Journalism Award, announced in 2020. LINKS Official award result Read the Canadian Association of Journalists' official list of award recipients. https://caj.ca/congratulations-to-the-2019-caj-awards-recipients/ Project coverage Read UBC's overview of the investigation and Charles's faculty-supervisor role. https://jwam.ubc.ca/news/ubc-journalism-students-investigate-tainted-tap-water/ SIGGRAPH Art Gallery Best-in-Show Finalist ========================================== DATE 2019 TYPE Finalist VENUE ACM SIGGRAPH RECORD Supporting record SUMMARY Knowing Together was selected as a best-in-show finalist for the ACM SIGGRAPH Art Gallery, recognizing its collaborative photogrammetry installation. LINKS Institutional coverage Read UBC's account of the project, exhibition, and finalist recognition. https://jwam.ubc.ca/news/siggraph-showcase-for-project-by-ubc-j-prof-charles-berret/ Tow Center Research Fellowship ============================== DATE 2015-16 TYPE Research Fellowship VENUE Tow Center for Digital Journalism RECORD Supporting record SUMMARY A Tow Center fellowship supporting research on information systems and the newsroom practices documented in the Guide to SecureDrop. LINKS Fellow profile Read the fellowship biography and research context at the Tow Center. https://towcenter.columbia.edu/content/charles-berret Magic Grant =========== DATE 2014-15 TYPE Research Grant VENUE Brown Institute for Media Innovation RECORD Supporting record SUMMARY A Magic Grant to the De-Glass research team, whose work investigated the technologies and commercial relationships embedded in web pages. LINKS Grant announcement Read the official grant announcement, project description, and named team. https://engineering.stanford.edu/news/stanford-and-columbia-university-announce-magic-grants-transform-media