Research Director Claire Wardle Arrives at Tow

It’s my fourth day on the job. My new job as Research Director at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism. I’ve spent the last few hours trying to come up with a way of describing how this feels and failed miserably. I realised no words sum it up…

A Measurable Effect: Using Metrics in the Newsroom

By Sybile Penhirin

Metrics have become an inevitable component of today’s journalism. Many websites, such as Chartbeat and Google Analytics, offer various ways for newsrooms to measure and develop their audience…

CJS Showcase 2015

Columbia Journalism Innovation Showcase

The Columbia Journalism School Showcase is an open house event for students and researchers to share their work with professional journalists, industry partners, entrepreneurs, technologists, academics…

Key points from “The Traffic Factories”

Audience metrics have become ubiquitous in news organizations, but there has been little empirical research on how the data is produced or how it affects newsroom culture and journalists daily work. The Tow Center sought to understand how the use of metrics…

Blog: The Responsive Cities Initiative

On Tuesday, April 28, Tow Fellow Susan Crawford hosted a panel of civic tech advocates to launch a white paper titled “The Responsive Cities Initiative: What a University Could Do to Help.” The white paper was generated from a series of meetings hosted by the…