Category Archives: Journalism

BuzzMachine→ What ‘Press’?

2024-08-13 Margaret Sullivan — whom I greatly respect and with whom I almost always agree — wrote a Guardian column asserting that “Kamala Harris must speak to the press.” Go read it first.  I disagree. That resulted in a thread on th …›

First Draft→ Australian election misinformation playbook

2022-03-13 The challenge of monitoring, understanding, defining and responding to mis- and disinformation is exacerbated during election campaigns. This report outlines tactics used by agents of disinformation to undermine elections as observed by First Draft’s …›

Tow Center→ Journalism Educator’s Symposium 2017

2017-08-09 The Tow Center is pleased to announce that on Tuesday, September 19th, we will be hosting our Journalism Educator’s Symposium – an event designed to help build a community of interest and exchange around new approaches and best practices to …›

Tow Center→ On the Design of Hyperlocal Communications

2017-01-23 At a time when the accuracy of news sources is in question, and politicians want to restrict access to information, hyperlocal communications have more potential than ever. You Are Here is a project that essentially consists of a Wifi signal that broad …›

Tow Center→ New Ideas for Automation in the Newsroom

2017-01-23   How can automation help reduce the cost of story discovery in a newsroom? As a Tow fellow in 2015, I had the opportunity to explore this question by building a tool, available online at campaign-finance.org, that automates some of the explorator …›

Tow Center→ Help Support and #FreeThePress in 2017

2017-01-20 In December 2016, the Committee to Protect Journalists counted 259 journalists imprisoned worldwide, more than at any time since the group began its annual imprisoned census in 1990. On January 25th and 26th, we hope you will join our effort to offer m …›