Learn. Build. Critique.
Outreach to newsrooms. Public-facing tutorials. Research and experimentation. Explorations of AI’s ability to disrupt the news ecosystem, and to enhance or diminish audience trust. Training students and mid-career journalists on how to use AI ethically and responsibly. Building new tools to augment reporting and scholarship. Collaborating with other major players in AI, including departments across Columbia University.
Columbia Journalism School is pioneering AI's integration into journalism through hands-on learning, in-depth research and industry collaboration.
By prioritizing ethics, transparency and trust, CJS equips journalists to responsibly navigate this new landscape. From AI-powered investigative tools to innovative storytelling, this initiative emphasizes practical education that empowers journalists to leverage technology while safeguarding integrity.
CJS fosters an environment where students and professionals collaborate on AI-driven projects to reshape how news is produced and consumed, focusing on accessibility, sustainability and reporting rigor.
“Journalists both report on, as well as with, AI. Generative AI has found its way into newsrooms small and large.”
Moving to fulfill that vision, Columbia Journalism School is producing thoughtful scholarship, timely journalism and practical workshops to help students and news professionals adapt to the rapidly changing technological environment.
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Plus, more news from the community
Professor Jonathan Soma, John S. and James L. Knight Professor of Professional Practice in Data Journalism, made a chat bot and broke down its capabilities in The Markup.
Join Columbia Journalism School's Office of Alumni and Development for a Series on AI and Journalism with expert faculty.
The Tow Center for Digital Journalism released a report on the pitfalls of eight AI search engines, citing work by Klaudia Jaźwińska and Aisvarya Chandrasekar.
Explore the Initiative With Professor Jonathan Soma:
Through the “Platforms and Publishers” project, an ongoing, multi-year study into the relationship between large-scale technology companies and journalism, Tow tracks the role of AI companies and their growing influence in the news industry. Tow is also the home of the Computer Science + Journalism Dual Masters degree program, where students are working on theses building AI-driven processes to assist newsrooms with tasks like data collection. Tow Center fellows and staff regularly publish articles about AI in the news industry in Columbia Journalism Review and the Tow Center Newsletter.
Jonathan Soma, Knight professor of practice and director of the school’s Data Degree Program, is researching the practical limitations of AI, including hallucinations, implications for fact-checking, and the role of trust and understanding by reporters. He trains his students to use AI to augment their journalism and is building tools to help with copy-editing and giving feedback on stories and programs such as Python. Professor Soma also publishes open-source guides, presents tutorials and gives talks – often to under-resourced newsrooms – to allow journalists to experience AI tools first-hand.
Finally, the newly relaunched Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security is exploring the thorny ethical questions that arise with the growing use of AI in newsrooms, and its rapid spread throughout society. The school’s required ethics course is being revamped to include the complex issues that arise from AI -- transparency with news consumers, newsroom standards for using the tools, and the growth of disinformation. Directed by Margaret Sullivan, the center will also be offering expertise and thought-leadership on AI to professional journalists, as well as to our students, in webinars and symposia and in published critiques.
CJS AI News
Read about the center's research into issues with AI-driven search tools.
J-School faculty are exploring AI's impact, weighing its benefits and risks for the industry.
Leading figures in the media industry met at Columbia Journalism School for a two-day event.
Watch the stream: join a sweeping exploration of AI and ethics in today’s journalism with leading industry thinkers and news practitioners.
Columbia Journalism Graduates Receive Industry Promotions and Take Home Top Awards.
As a collaboration between Columbia Journalism School and Stanford University’s School of Engineering, the Brown Institute for Media Innovation awa
Challenging the poor understanding of the effects of AI on the news industry and our information environment.
