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The Tow Center for Digital Journalism hosts a variety of diverse research projects that explore innovation at the intersection of journalism and technology.

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    Jan 29

    Want to keep up with news from the Tow Center community and be the first to know when we publish new research? Subscribe to our newsletter here.

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    Jun 21

    My job is to lead Twitter’s Curation team. “What is a Curation team?!” you ask? Well, fellow person on Twitter, let me explain:

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  3. Jun 20

    Of interest as the conversation about moderation heats up: 's upcoming Behind the Screen, a full ethnographic study of content moderators working to filter out the worst humanity has to offer from the internet's user-generated content pipeilnes

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    Jun 20

    This is an A+ helpful thread

    So many engagement + journalism resources popping the last few weeks, esp. within the larger context of news fatigue & rise of local news deserts. Listing several here + using these as a platform to think (dream?) of what might come next 🚀
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    Jun 19

    Excited to report that we'll be hiring a Data Viz intern for the fall, along with politics and sports interns. All internships are paid. Please share with all the aspiring data journalists in your life.

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    Jun 20

    Independence Public Media is hiring a Program Officer! Is it you or someone you know? Deadline to apply is July 17. Details here:

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    Jun 20

    I attended this session and am so pleased to see all the smart takeaways! We listened to academics and practitioners talk about engaged journalism. Here’s what we learned by

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  8. Jun 19

    A must-read from . Three former Facebook content moderators (viewed by the company "as a speed bump on the way to an AI-powered future") talk about their work and the conditions at their site in Tampa, FL.

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    Jun 18

    How can engaged journalism researchers and practitioners more effectively work together? Last month, and I asked that question to a roomful of scholars, funders, and practitioners. Here's what they came up with.

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  10. Jun 19

    How can researchers and journalism practitioners collaborate effectively? Build trust, establish clear expectations, make findings accessible, keep communication channels open. Tow Fellows and on engaged journalism and more:

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  11. Jun 17

    What names (other than Trump) drive eyeballs to political stories? : AOC.

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  12. Jun 17

    . on Google News: We prioritize authoritativeness over freshness when deciding which stories to surface.

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  13. Jun 17

    . on journalism's over-reliance on tech money: "It feels like if you want to get anything done, you have to go to a tech company."

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  14. Jun 17

    . on the importance of news organizations diversifying revenue streams: "We have to be everywhere."

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  15. Jun 17

    .: Despite a variety of experiments with AI and machine learning at , the front page is the result of only human editorial decisions.

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  16. Jun 17

    . says she tallied the stories she has written in her year at Yahoo! News, and 51% of them have the word Trump in the title. Only 15% are not about Trump at all.

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  17. Jun 17

    Onto a panel discussion on the findings with (CNN), (Google), (Yahoo! News), and (WSJ), moderated by Tow's director .

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  18. Jun 17

    3. How much further can pay models go? Do we need to bundle content or change pricing? 4. How should the industry respond to the move to more private networks and groups? 5. How can publishers make the most of the rise of voice and podcasts? (2/2)

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  19. Jun 17

    Emerging questions from : 1. Can we build on greater reliance on "reputable" news brands? Can we turn that into financial gain? 2. How should publishers respond to findings that people are worn out by news and find it depressing? (1/2)

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    Jun 17

    Topline level of trust in media in the U.S. is frightening: Post-Trump, trust on the left jumps from 35% (2015) to 53% now; on the right, it drops from 25% to 9%, the lowest level Reuters Institute found in the countries it surveyed.

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    Jun 17

    You should definitely follow and the stream at about the Reuters Digital News report, but if you don't have time I took a look at its main conclusions here:

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