REIMAGINING JOURNALISM
Artificial intelligence is changing what journalism is. People are changing how they get information. Machines are reading the news for them. Facts travel independently from the stories they came from. Whether we like it or not.
Journalism needs to be ready for this world.
The Tow-Knight Center is focused on how the industry needs to evolve to meet this moment, to embrace new audience needs and adapt to new technologies in how information is produced, distributed, and consumed.
We are based at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York, where we explore that frontier: building prototypes, running experiments, convening the industry, and writing about what we're finding — so journalists can understand the possible futures of the fast-evolving information environment, and help shape them. Join us on this journey.
Try Our Tools
Hands-on lessons and interactive demos that teach AI concepts — how to think about how AI is changing your workflow and how to explore with it in an auditable way. 20-30 minutes each. No coding required.
The Lab →Visit the Library
A directory of AI training programs, tools, guides, and case studies for journalists. There are countless trainings out there — here's our selection of ones worth your time, chosen with journalism professionals in mind.
The Library →Take Our Survey
Help us understand how newsrooms are actually using AI. We built a survey chatbot to explore the future of audience feedback, and get your own. Contribute to research with a 10-minute conversation — not a form.
The Survey →WHAT’S CHANGING
Four structural shifts reshaping public information
THE AUDIENCE IS BECOMING MACHINES
AI systems are increasingly the first consumer of news — ingesting, disaggregating, and remixing it before any human sees it. What does journalism look like when your reader is an algorithm?
Read more →THE ARTICLE IS DISSOLVING
Information is becoming liquid — flowing through systems rather than sitting in containers. The story, the broadcast, the homepage: these formats are losing their structural role.
Read more →ATTENTION IS GIVING WAY TO INTENTION
The old economy was built on capturing eyeballs. The emerging one is organized around fulfilling what people actually need. That changes the business model and the moral logic of our entire system.
Read more →SCARCITY IS SHIFTING TO ABUNDANCE
The gathering, processing, and distribution of information are all becoming abundant. The constraint is no longer the supply of information but the architecture for making it useful.
Read more →Explore Our Programs
Events, convenings, workshops, and trainings where we bring together journalists, technologists, and researchers to work on the hardest questions about AI and public information.
See Programs →Get Involved
We're always looking for newsrooms and technologist to partner and collaborate with as we explore the frontiers of journalistic innovation.
Work with us →From (Re)Structured News
We write weekly about what we’re learning, with an eye toward helping people in and around the news industry understand the rapidly evolving information landscape. Subscribe for big picture thoughts and experiments about the future of journalism.
Millions of Mediocre Minions
AI doesn't just save time — it multiplies capacity. The new competitive advantage isn't talent alone, it's mindset and imagination.
Read →Process Over Persona
Why encoding real editorial processes matters more than telling AI to "be an editor."
Read →Mission Control
Journalism is only one part of a healthy information ecosystem. We care about all of it.
Read →FEATURED POSTS
Help us understand how newsrooms are using AI
We're running an ongoing conversational survey to learn what's actually happening in newsrooms, exploring how AI can help us capture what journalism professionals are experiencing and how they feel when it comes to AI. Try it out and help shape our research — it takes less than 10 minutes.