Algorithmic Defamation: The Case of the Shameless Autocomplete

In Germany, a man recently won a legal battle with Google over the fact that when you searched for his name, the autocomplete suggestions connected him to “scientology” and “fraud,” — two things that he felt had defamatory…

The Rise of The Single Subject Platform

A Research Project by News Deeply &

The Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University

By Lara Setrakian and Kristin Nolan

NPR news app team experiments with making data-driven public media with the public

News applications, or ‘apps’ as they are commonly known, rely on data. They increasingly give mobile users better ways to understand the world they’re moving through, from general topics…

First Tow Tea: Entering the Digital Space

September 4th, 2013: 4:00–5:30 at 607B, Columbia Journalism School

Come learn about various ways you can get involved in the digital space in the city. We will be introducing the Tow…

All Class Lecture

Save the Date

September 17th, 2013: 7:00–9:00pm

All-Class Lecture: Participatory Pixels: Opportunities for Innovation and Invention with the Tow Center for Digital Journalism & Brown Institute for Media Innovation

The Tow Center Announces First Round of Tow/ Knight Research Projects

Closing The Gap

Columbia Journalism School is leading an effort with other schools at the university to create a post-baccalaureate program aimed at preparing college graduates with little quantitative or computational background to be successful applicants to master’s and doctoral degree programs that require…