Tuesday, 21 April 2015

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UPCOMING EVENTS
The Tow Responsive Cities Initiative

On Tuesday, April 28th, at 6:30 pmSusan Crawford will be presenting a new white paper titled The Tow Responsive Cities Initiative: What a University Could Do To Help. The event will include a panel discussion. The Responsive Cities Initiative comprised a series of workshops in the fall of 2014 focused on the question: What can a university center do to help cities use technology to make lives better for their citizens? Come hear leading thinkers chart the course - combining fiber optics, big data, policy-making, local journalism, and effective governance.

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Tow Tea: Curating Digital Photography

On Thursday, April 30th at 4:00 pm, the Tow Center will be co-presenting an event with the Magnum Foundation.  Susan Meiselas, photographer and Director of the Magnum Foundation will be in conversation with Yukiko Yamagata, associate director of the Open Society Foundations Documentary Photography Project and curator of Moving Walls.  

How has the immediacy of digital communications changed the act of bearing witness?  In this era where our screens and our psyches are saturated by images, can photographic narratives on social justice issues still elicit an emotional response from a viewer?

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The Traffic Factories

On Thursday, May 7, at 6:00 pm, the Tow Center will host a panel discussion about Tow Fellow Caitlin Petre's new report, The Traffic Factories. Petre's work explores how analytics shape the culture, internal dynamics, and daily work of the newsroom.  How can publications foster a culture around metrics that aligns with their mission and values?  Petre explores this question through ethnographic research about three different media organizations: Chartbeat, Gawker Media, and The New York Times.

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Columbia Journalism School Showcase

On Tuesday, May 12, at 6:00 pm, the Tow Center for Digital Journalism and the Brown Institute for Media Innovation will host the Columbia Journalism School Showcase. The Showcase is an open house event where industry partners, university collaborators, and the public are invited to the J-School to see and experience the original and innovative journalism being created by Columbia Journalism School students.

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CALL FOR RESEARCH APPLICATIONS
Call for Research Applications - Spring 2015

In January 2015, the Tow Center was awarded $3 million in new funding from the Knight Foundation to expand research in the following four areas: Computation, Algorithms and Automated Journalism; Data, Metrics and Impact; Audiences and Engagement; and Experimental Journalism, Models and Practice. We are pleased to announce a call for applications for research fellowships and project proposals.

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RECENT EVENTS
Privacy & Publication: The Ethics of Open Data, Algorithms and the Internet

On Thursday, April 16th at 5:00 pm, Professor of Computer Science Steven Bellovin and Assistant Professor of JournalismSusan McGregor hosted a discussion regarding Privacy & Publication. Digital journalism today operates in a global sphere not limited by the geographic boundaries or transmission speed of traditional print publishing, changing the impact of what happens when we hit "publish." Bellovin and McGregor discussed how these factors interact with social and ethical issues in an era of universal access to online publishing.

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TOW CENTER REPORTS
Learning Security: Information-Security Education for Journalists 
Chris Walker and Carol Waters

Lies, Damn Lies and Viral Content: How News Websites Spread (And Debunk) Online Rumors, Unverified Claims, and Misinformation
Craig Silverman

Play the News: Fun and Games in Digital Journalism
Maxwell Foxman
TOW CENTER IN THE NEWS
New Verification Handbook for investigations
Journalism.co.uk

How citizens and investigative journalists handle privacy protection
Pew Research

Newsroom: Game on
Storybench
 
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