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Tow Center for Digital JournalismThe Tow Center for Digital Journalism/Columbia Journalism School presents the first Tow Research conference, Quantifying Journalism: Metrics, Data and Computation, on May 30, 2014. Quantifying Journalism: Data, Metrics, and Computation will bring together academics, practitioners and technologists to explore three critical questions at the heart of the data journalism conversation:

Beyond Clickbait: How are news organizations actually using analytics, and what does It mean for content?

Data: What is (and isn’t) it good for?

Robot Reporters:  What new journalistic data gathering tools, such as drones and sensors are on the horizon?

The first Tow research conference Quantifying Journalism: Data, Metrics, and Computation is Friday, May 30, 2014 at Columbia Journalism School. Space is still available.

The day-long conference will include panel discussions, lectures, lightning talks, and the launch of three Tow Center reports. All sessions will be broadcast live starting at 9am (EST) here: http://cuj.tw/1g8MvZU 

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Download a PDF of the Conference Program

The program includes:

PANEL | Beyond Clickbait: How are news organizations actually using analytics, and what does It mean for content?

  • Caitlin Petre, Tow Fellow
  • James Robinson, Director of News Analytics, The New York Times
  • Tony Haile, CEO, Chartbeat
  • Daniel Mintz, Director of Business Intelligence, Upworthy

 

TOW REPORT LAUNCH | The Art and Science of Data Journalism

  • Alexander Howard, Tow Fellow

 

PANEL | Data: What is (and isn’t) it good for?

  • Jonathan Stray, Tow Fellow
  • Amanda Cox, Graphics Editor, The New York Times
  • Dan Gardner, Author and Journalist
  • Jen Lowe, Data Scientist, datatelling
  • Mark Hansen, Director, David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation & Professor of Journalism, Columbia University

 Reports from Tow Fellows ongoing Tow Research Projects

  • Andy Carvin | Broken News
  • Brian Abelson and Michael Keller | NewsLynx
  • Nicholas Diakopoulos | Data Journalism: Algorithmic Accountability
  • Susan E. McGregor | Journalism Security

 

TALK | The State of Data on Journalism

  • Jesse Holcomb, Senior Researcher, Pew Research Center

 

TOW REPORT LAUNCH | Amateur Footage: A Global Study of User-Generated Content in TV and Online News Output

  • Claire Wardle, Tow Fellow
  • Sam Dubberley, Tow Fellow

 

PANEL | Robot Reporters: What new journalistic data gathering tools, such as drones and sensors are on the horizon? and REPORT LAUNCH | Sensors and Journalism

  • Fergus Pitt, Tow Fellow
  • Scott Klein, Assistant Managing Editor, ProPublica
  • Shannon Dosemagen, Co-founder and Executive Director, Public Lab
  • Joe Procopio, VP of Product, Automated Insights
  • Nabiha Syed, Associate, Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz

Download a PDF of the Conference Program

 

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