As we start communicating with smart devices such as Amazon’s Echo and Google Home, how will this technology impact news audiences? How will news consumers be able to use voice commands to access stories on demand?
“Would you like to be on the radio?” The outreach producer for WBEZ’s Curious City project approaches residents with variations of this question as I shadow him in a park on Chicago’s South Side…
Journalists are busy people. It can be hard enough to get a hold of them and even more difficult to get them to meet for coffee as participants in a research project. I braced myself to…
It seems rare, these days, to encounter a conversation about the future of journalism that does not make some reference to the cluster of concepts known variously as design thinking, design practice, or human-centered…
When the You Are Here team first starting talking about potential sites for our devices, we knew there were a few key features that any potential location would need to have.
Say you’re scrolling through Facebook or Twitter one day when you see a friend has posted about an episode of her favorite podcast. “It’s so funny,” she says, “You’ve got to check this out!”
Thanks to high-speed satellite Internet service and the ubiquity of mobile devices, journalism audiences can now be reached anywhere, any time. The effect can be transporting — and also disorienting. When the Web is everywhere, what happens to the experience of being in a…
By Efrat Nechushtai
On May 12, Tow Center for Digital Journalism launched Guide to SecureDrop, a research project led by Tow Fellow Charles Berret, with a panel discussion at Columbia Journalism School. The report is available to download and…
Social media is increasingly a primary source for news and information in this country. A 2015 Pew Research Center study found that 63% of Facebook users report that the social media website is now a primary source of news, Wired notes…