Storytelling with Data Visualization: Context is King

Data is like a freeze-dried version of reality, abstracted sometimes to the point where it can be hard to recognize and understand. It needs some rehydration before it becomes tasty (or even just palatable) storytelling material again —…

Tow Speaker Series on Computational Journalism

Computing and information sciences are playing an increasingly important role in the practice of journalism, for everything from data mining and visualization to find and tell stories, to driving the dissemination and adaptation of content across…

American Newspapers and the Built Environment

The shrinkage of traditional news in size — staff reductions, circulation, ad revenue, profit — has been fairly well documented. But a different kind of transformation is slowly taking place now as news companies get out of the real-estate business…

Tow Takeaways: Entering the Digital Space (Tow Tea, 9/4/13)

You don’t have to be a programmer to be a part of the digital journalism landscape in the city. At the first Tow Tea of 2013–14 academic year on Sept. 4, 2013, about 45 people gathered at Columbia Journalism School to talk…

Ethan Zuckerman live blog

Ethan Zuckerman, Director of Civics Media at MIT, presented a talk at the Tow Center on September 19.

Takeaway of Tow Tea with Mark Coatney

Mark Coatney, Senior Vice President of Digital Media at Al Jazeera America, visited the Tow Center on October 16 for the fourth Tow tea of the academic year. Coatney was previously the Director of Media at Tumblr. He’s also served as editor for at both Time.com…