Tow Center for Digital Journalism - page 2 - Columbia Journalism Review

Thursday, May 14th, 2026

AI Agents Are Coming for News. Can Publishers Reclaim Control?

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Aisvarya Chandrasekar and Klaudia Jaźwińska

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A Battle over Donations in French Journalism

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Why Economists and Doctors Are Monitoring Local News

The Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism is a research center exploring the ways in which technology is changing journalism, its practice and its consumption — as we seek new ways to judge the reliability, standards, and credibility of information online.

Platform Timeline

For more on the key developments of tech platforms affecting publishers, see the Tow Center's Platform Timeline .

Tow Reports

a Thursday, May 15th, 2025

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Felix M. Simon

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Andrea Wenzel

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Victoria Baranetsky

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AI Agents Are Coming for News. Can Publishers Reclaim Control?

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