Four years ago, I watched Nic Newman present his latest research at a BBC social media conference I’d helped organise. (You can watch his session on YouTube here). He emphasised to the audience that search engines were no longer the primary…

On Thursday, June 4, 2015, we hosted Tow Fellows Michael Keller and Brian Abelson to present their Tow-Knight paper, NewsLynx: A Tool for Newsroom Impact Measurement. The release of the paper coincides with the conclusion of nearly 2 years…

In the roughly two years since the Snowden revelations, information security and source protection has become an ongoing focus of conferences, surveys, and how-to guides geared towards the journalism community. Yet despite chilling…

Last May the Tow Center for Digital Journalism launched Amateur Footage: A Global Study of User-Generated Content. As a direct result of the research, co-authors Claire Wardle, Sam Dubberley and Pete Brown were given $60,000 by Storyful as seed money to create the…