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Dec 8, 2015

Tow Tea: Network Analysis for Investigations

“Everything is connected” may be a popular refrain, but as journalists we of course always want to know, “In what way?” This was the theme for the final Tow Tea of the 2015 fall semester, where Joe Karaganis from American Assembly, a public policy…

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Nov 25, 2015

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…

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Nov 10, 2015

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…

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Oct 28, 2015

Panelist Profiles: Miriam Elder and Beth Morrissey

On September 17th, Buzzfeed’s Miriam Elder and VICE on HBO’s Beth Morrissey joined us for a Tow Tea on international reporting. Below, the panelists share a bit about their own backgrounds and their current roles.

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Oct 20, 2015

Tow Tea: Computational Journalism in Practice

We live in a world of computers: there is a computer in our bag and there is one in our pockets. Increasingly today, we put a computer on four wheels and call it a car. We step into a computer animated box to ascend to the Nth floor of a building —…

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Oct 13, 2015

Starting A Startup: Launching a New Media Business in NYC

On Thursday, October 8, the Tow Center for Digital Journalism & the Brown Institute for Media Innovation hosted the media entrepreneur event, Starting a Startup: Launching a Successful New Media Business in NYC. Audience members…

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Oct 6, 2015

Tow Tea: What’s Your Angle?

In journalism, as in academic research, the main goal is to tackle important issues and trends. But developing a unique angle on these topics depends on having a complete understanding of a subject, especially for widely covered stories. As a group of experts at the Tow Tea on…

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Sep 22, 2015

Tow Tea: Perspectives on International Reporting

International reporting presents constantly changing landscapes for work as stories come up in different countries and regions of the world. On Thursday, September 17th, the Tow Center hosted Buzzfeed’s Miriam Elder and VICE’s Beth Morrissey for…

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Apr 23, 2015

Privacy and Publication: The Ethics of Open Data, Algorithms and the Internet

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On Thursday, April 16th at 5:00 pm, Professor of Computer Science Steven Bellovin and Assistant Professor of…