The Tow Center for Digital Journalism

Chat apps and news: Evolution or Revolution?

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

Tow Tea: New Beats in Digital Media

Tow Tea New Beats and Covering Diverse Beats in Digital Media

Thursday, September 25th, 2014
4:00 pm — 6:00 pm
The Brown Institute for Media Innovation

A Guide to the Business of Podcasting: The Executive Summary

With this report, I have aimed to explain why podcasts matter to digital journalism: as our world shifts to mobile consumption, podcasts represent a mobile-first content that engages with audiences in ways that no other…

Algorithmic Defamation: The Case of the Shameless Autocomplete

In Germany, a man recently won a legal battle with Google over the fact that when you searched for his name, the autocomplete suggestions connected him to “scientology” and “fraud,” — two things that he felt had defamatory…

New Tow Center Research Project Explores Use of User Generated Content by Television News

We are excited to announce a new Tow Center research project which will explore the use of User-Generated Content (UGC) by television news. While news organization have…

Journalism After Snowden Lecture Series

Journalism After Snowden Lecture Series

Presented by: Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Information Society Project at Yale Law School

Tow Tea Takeaway: On Collaborative Projects in Technology and Journalism

On Mar. 13, Larry Birnbaum of Northwestern University and Narrative science discussed student projects in technology, media, and journalism developed at Northwestern over the past few years in a Tow tea…

Sensor Journalism Callout: Get A Project Funded

If you’ve got a journalism project using sensors or drones, but need help to make it real, we want to hear from you.

As part of the Tow Center’s year of Sensor Journalism work, we’re collaborating on proof-of-concept…

Innovation Showcase / Bill Wheeler and Ayman Oghanna

Zero Hour: the Covert Struggle for Control of Tripoli and the Future of Libya

I was MS ‘07/MA ’11. Along with my collaborator, Ayman Oghanna (MS ‘08), I traveled…