Tow Center for Digital Journalism - Columbia Journalism Review

The Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism is a research center exploring the ways in which technology is changing journalism, its practice and its consumption — as we seek new ways to judge the reliability, standards, and credibility of information online.

Platform Timeline

For more on the key developments of tech platforms affecting publishers, see the Tow Center's Platform Timeline .

Tow Reports

a Tuesday, February 6th, 2024

Felix M. Simon

a Tuesday, November 21st, 2023

Andrea Wenzel

a Thursday, May 11th, 2023

Victoria Baranetsky

a Thursday, April 20th, 2023

Damian Radcliffe with Nick Mathews

a Tuesday, February 7th, 2023

From ‘News Deserts’ to ‘Information Oceans’?

Sarah Stonbely

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Plotting with Podcasts

Stuart Anderson-Davis

How ChatGPT Search (Mis)represents Publisher Content

Klaudia Jaźwińska and Aisvarya Chandrasekar

From ‘Mitigating Risks’ to Ensuring ‘Industry Leadership’

Kaylee Williams

Courier Newsroom Spent Big on a Meta Ad Blitz in October

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Deconstructing stories: What you need to engage with automated news

Samuel Danzon-Chambaud

Q&A: The Backfire Effect—Is Fact-Checking Doing More Harm Than Good?

Stuart Anderson-Davis

Fossil fuel interests are working to kill solar in one Ohio county. The hometown newspaper is helping.

Miranda Green, Floodlight, Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, Priyanjana Bengani, Tow Center for Digital Journalism, photography by Sarahbeth Maney, ProPublica

Op-ed: A new, collaborative model for mapping the US local news landscape

Sarah Stonbely

AI companies have a news problem. Journalists have the skills they need to fix it.

Anika Collier Navaroli

Star Spangled Media petitioned lawmakers for press status. A leaky ad portal suggests ties to dark-money group.

Pete Brown

One super-PAC’s curious reliance on a short-lived, lavishly funded quasi–news site

Pete Brown

The nonprofits and PACs that spent $14 million on the Metric Media network in 2021–22

Priyanjana Bengani

Russian disinformation networks ramp up attacks on European elections

Priyanjana Bengani and Jasper Jackson

Meta Is Getting Rid of CrowdTangle—and Its Replacement Isn’t as Transparent or Accessible

Sarah Grevy Gotfredsen and Kaitlyn Dowling

Op-Ed: AI can’t anthropomorphize its way to empathy

Anika Collier Navaroli

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