Tow Center for Digital Journalism

Today the Tow Center and ⁦ are launching an international survey of journalists and news workers to help assess the impact of COVID19. Your insight and experiences are invaluable in understanding the crisis:

What is Needed to Keep Journalism Viable? | Nieman Reports COVID-19 has caused dozens of news outlets to collapse around the world. That’s why ICFJ and the Tow Center have launched a global survey today to track and assess the impacts of the pandemic on journalism worldwide

The Tow Center is conducting a project to track newsroom lay-offs and cutbacks during the COVID-19 pandemic.

If you have been affected or know of a newsroom that has, please add to our form.

We are extremely grateful for any contributions.

COVID-19 newsroom cutbacks tracker The Tow Center for Digital Journalism, based at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, is conducting a project to track newsrooms lay-offs and cutbacks during the period of the COVID-19 /Coronavirus pandemic. Examples of the types of action we are tracking include, but are not limited....

Conservative Newswork: A Report on the Values and Practices of Online Journalists on the Right Executive Summary Through much of the 20th century, the US news diet was dominated by journalism outlets that professed to operate according to principles of objectivity and nonpartisan balance. Today, news outlets that openly proclaim a political perspective—conservative, progressive, centrist, o...

CJR and the Tow Center will be holding a day-long conference on December 10 to explore how disinformation will affect the 2020 election—and what we can do about it

Disinfo 2020: Prepping the Press A day-long conference from Columbia Journalism School exploring how disinformation will affect the 2020 election—and what we can do about it

TONIGHT: Join the Tow Center for Digital Journalism and the Knight First Amendment Institute as we host an evening event dedicated to exploring the ways in which the current legal environment may be hampering essential journalistic work. There are still a few spots left (ticket link in comments!), and a live-stream of the event will begin at 6:30pm here:

Data Journalism and The Law Presented by Victoria Baranetsky, general counsel at The Center for Investigative Reporting and author of the Tow Center's recent report Data Journalism and ...

YOU'RE INVITED:

Local News After Analog
Wednesday, October 10
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Columbia Journalism School

The Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School, is pleased to present the report launch of "Digital Adaptation in Local News," a research project led by Tow fellow Jesse Holcomb.

A quarter century after the birth of the World Wide Web, local news in the United States still struggles to fully inhabit the medium. But as digital platforms replace legacy ones, publishers will have to adapt. New research on the digital footprint of more than 2,000 local news outlets provides an early marker for where the industry stands today, and signposts for where it is headed.

Following the report launch, a panel of practitioners and experts will discuss what local news engagement looks like in a world where print and even broadcast are increasingly marginal.

Panelists:
- Esfand Pourmand, Senior Vice President, Revenue at Hearst
- Jim Schachter, Vice President for News, WNYC
- Jennifer Choi, Director of Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY

Details/RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/local-news-after-analog-tickets-50662663390

On October 11, the Tow Center will host LaBot Workshop: A presentation about LaBot, a news chatbot created by Chilean journalists Andrea Insunza, Francisca Skoknic, both Columbia alumni, and Paula Molina, Harvard Nieman Fellow.

This workshop is open to students of Columbia Journalism School and Columbia University only. Please use your Columbia email to RSVP.

LaBot Workshop On October 11, the Tow Center for Digital Journalism will host LaBot Workshop- a presentation about LaBot, a news chatbot created by Chilean journalists Andrea Insunza, Francisca Skoknic, both Columbia alumni, and Paula Molina, Harvard Nieman Fellow. The activity is part of the series “The future ...

Can You Spot the Deceptive Facebook Post? Facebook has been plagued with disinformation posts placed by foreign operatives. Can you tell the difference between a real post and one designed to fool you?

Interested in delving into the most pressing and complex challenges in digital journalism?

Come work with the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School!

Open positions for a fall 2018 start:

Computational Journalism Fellow - academicjobs.columbia.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=66778

Research Director - academicjobs.columbia.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=66670

Senior Research Scholar, Local News - academicjobs.columbia.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=66672

Please direct any questions to [email protected].