Research Reports
Lead editor for the Harvard Kennedy Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy + Lenfest Institute for Journalism research report based on a gathering of the foremost thinkers in the fields surrounding the future of local news:
Business Models for Local News: A Field Scan
By Elizabeth Hansen, Emily Roseman, Matthew Spector, and Joseph Lichterman, September 2018
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Lead editor and contributing writer for the Tow Center for Digital Journalism’s 24,000-word capstone research report on the intersection between social platforms and news publishers, based on 2+ years of interviews and data analysis:
Friend and Foe: The Platform Press at the Heart of Journalism
By Nushin Rashidian, Pete Brown, and Elizabeth Hansen—with Emily Bell, Jonathan Albright, and Abigail Hartstone, June 2018
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Lead editor over the course of five months on a 55,000-word report investigating the use of sensors and drones in journalism.
Sensors and Journalism
By Fergus Pitt, May 2014
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A selection of reports, which were edited, copyedited and produced for online/print distribution for the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University:
The Partnership Press: Lessons for Platform-Publisher Collaborations as Facebook and News Outlets Team to Fight Misinformation
By Mike Ananny, April 2018
Managing a 21st-Century Newsroom Workforce: A Case Study of NYC News Media
By Matthew S. Weber and Allie Kosterich, March 2018
Understanding the General Data Protection Regulation: A Primer for Global Publishers
By Susan McGregor and Hugo Zylberberg, March 2018
Guide to Audience Revenue and Engagement
By Elizabeth Hansen and Emily Goligoski, February 2018
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A selection of reports, copyedited and produced for online/print distribution for the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University:
Pushed Beyond Breaking: US Newsrooms Use Mobile Alerts to Define Their Brand
By Pete Brown, November 2017
Computational Campaign Coverage
By Andreas Graefe, July 2017
The Case for Media Impact
By Lindsay Green-Barber and Fergus Pitt, June 2017
Curious Communities: Online Engagement Meets Old-School, Face-to-Face Outreach
By Andrea Wenzel, May 2017
Life at Small-Market Newspapers
By Christopher Ali and Damian Radcliffe, May 2017
The Curious Journalist’s Guide to Data
By Jonathan Stray, May 2016
Guide to Automated Journalism
By Andreas Graefe, January 2016
Guide to Podcasting
By Vanessa Quirk, December 2015
Guide to Crowdsourcing
By Mimi Onuoha, Jeanne Pinder and Jan Schaffer, November 2015
Guide to Chat Apps
By Trushar Barot, November 2015
Virtual Reality Journalism
By Taylor Owen and Fergus Pitt, November 2015
The Traffic Factories: Metrics at Chartbeat, Gawker Media, and The New York Times
By Caitlin Petre, May 2015
Lies, Damn Lies and Viral Content
By Craig Silverman, February 2015