New Report: Virtual Reality Journalism

After decades of research and development, virtual reality appears to be on the cusp of…

What History Can Teach Us About Virtual Reality

Looking at the evolution of successful mediums from the past, we can see a very specific cycle emerge, and how long it took to develop.

Tow Tea: Parsing Tech Talk

For any journalist writing about science or technology it is not uncommon to hear scientists and subject experts complain about how news organizations get facts or interpretations wrong in their stories. With technology today becoming more ubiquitous than ever before, there is an…

New Report: A Guide to Crowdsourcing

The Purpose of the Research

The term “crowdsourcing” has been around for a decade. Although Wired writer Jeff Howe coined it in 2006, the ways in which news organizations define and employ it today vary enormously.

Chat apps and news: Evolution or Revolution?

Messaging apps now have more global users than traditional social networks — which…

Home pages could become a thing of the past for media organizations

We could soon see the emergence of a a new wave of publishers that don’t require home pages or apps; their sole purpose is to syndicate…

Tow Tea: FOIA Workshop

On Thursday, November 19, 2015, the Tow Center hosted a Tow Tea workshop on accessing and collecting data and information made available under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Guests Shawn Musgrave, from The New England Center for Investigative Reporting’s and Nabiha Syed of…