Tow Center

@TowCenter

The Tow Center hosts a variety of diverse research projects that explore innovation at the intersection of journalism and technology. @[email protected]

New York, NY

towcenter.columbia.edu

Joined September 2011

Tow Center
@TowCenter
Jul 30
New from Tow: Using FOIA requests and hidden-camera videos, groups targeted universities, leading to the firing of faculty and staff... By @mirandacgreen
How a network of pink-slime sites and conservative activists went after campus DEI.
From cjr.org
Tow Center
@TowCenter
Jul 15
A Tow Center investigation analyzed three years of Restoration News coverage. What we found is a new kind of right-wing media that is openly funded by political donors, with a distribution network that reaches prominent politicians and the courts.
Inside Restoration News, a political nonprofit’s “newsroom.”
From cjr.org
Tow Center
@TowCenter
Jul 9
A Tow Center investigation analyzed three years of Restoration News coverage. What we found is a new kind of right-wing media that is openly funded by political donors, with a distribution network that reaches prominent politicians and the courts.
Inside Restoration News, a political nonprofit’s “newsroom.”
From cjr.org
Tow Center
@TowCenter
May 28
The importance of journalists becoming tool builders, Brown Institute for Media Innovation's Michael Krisch for our panel event launching our report on using AI to Map Local News in Charlotte, NC . @SarahStonbely tow.cjr.org/charlotte-2026/
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Tow Center
@TowCenter
May 28
The Tow Center used AI to generate a first-draft fleet of Python scrapers in just minutes. Now we are sharing the code. @tblysik @_cjrobinson
Scraper Factories
From cjr.org