2018 Call for Proposals

The Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University develops research with the world’s leading thinkers in journalism innovation, to serve as a resource for the profession as a whole. The Tow Center, with generous funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, is excited to present our 2018 Call for Proposals for new research projects around journalism technology, innovation, systems and business models. We welcome proposals from academia and practice that tackle the most pressing research questions in the current news environment.

UPDATED DEADLINE IS APRIL 10, and details/application form is available at bit.ly/TowCFP2018. Please direct any questions to towcenter@columbia.edu.

Upcoming Events

Digital Literacy in Context: Negotiating Systemic Bias in Teaching
April 12 | Columbia University
With the Center for Teaching and Learning and Columbia Libraries. RSVP here.

Public Record under Threat: News and the Archive in the Digital Distributed Age
April 13 | Stanford University
With the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Stanford University. RSVP here.

Networked Press Freedom: What does journalistic autonomy mean anymore?
May 4 | Columbia Journalism School
With the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. RSVP here.

New Publications from the Tow Center

Understanding the General Data Protection Regulation: A Primer for Global Publishers by Susan McGregor and Hugo Zylberberg
Walking in Another’s Virtual Shoes: Do 360-Degree Video News Stories Generate Empathy in Views? by Dan Archer
Managing a 21st-Century Newsroom Workforce: A Case Study of NYC Media by Matthew Weber and Allie Kosterich
Mistrust and local news in urban and suburban Philly by Andrea Wenzel, Anthony Nadler, Melissa Valle, and Marc Lamont Hill
Collaboration and the creation of a new journalism commons by Carlos Martinez de la Serna
Innovation from a ‘Rural Journalism Lab’ pt1 pt2 p3 by Sam Ford, Andrea Wenzel with Lee Bratcher and Dustin Bratcher
Muck: A build tool for data journalists by George King
The new ‘billion-dollar problem’ for platforms and publishers by George Civeris
RIP Facebook Live: As subsidies end, so does publisher participation by Pete Brown

News from the Tow Community

Facebook gave data about 57bn friendships to academic (The Guardian), research from Tow Research Director Jonathan Albright
Local news is in trouble. Can new publications turn it around? (Curbed), research from Tow Fellows Jesse Holcomb, Christopher Ali, Damian Radcliffe
Facebook and Google Must Ban Ads From Dark Money Groups (Wired), op-ed from Tow Fellow Anthony Nadler
🎥 The Ethics of Social Platforms and Content Moderation pt1 and pt2, video from February 23 Policy Exchange Forum co-hosted by the Tow Center and the Annenberg Innovation Lab
🔊 Facebook and Google: platforms or publishers?, audio from panel discussion at The Financial Times' Future of News conference with Emily Bell, director of the Tow Center, Campbell Brown, head of news partnerships at Facebook, Jason Kint, chief executive of Digital Content Next and Richard Gingras, vice president of news at Google

Email us: towcenter@columbia.edu

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