Areas Of Research

• Economic Models of Journalism

  Leaders from disparate backgrounds explore and debate new business models for media ownership, including nonprofit and hybrid models. A recent conference focused on the potential to improve news organizations' capacity to expand watchdog and accountability coverage through support from the nonprofit sector.

• Computational Journalism

  New Report Published! Computational Journalism has the potential to strengthen investigative reporting by harnessing public data and documents for analysis. Journalists and computer scientists are working together to develop free and open-source reporting tools for accountability reporting.

• Investigative Reporting and Accountability Coverage

  Journalists have historically held institutions accountable through the daily monitoring of beat reporting and deep digging of investigative reporting. Center faculty are exploring ways to preserve and protect this critical function of journalism.