Tory Lysik

Tory Lysik is a Media Research Fellow and Journalist Fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, reporting on AI, misinformation, higher education, and politics. 

Before coming to Tow, Tory was a data journalist at Axios, where she developed interactive data visualizations and reported data-driven stories for national audiences. Before that, she worked at Vox as a politics and policy reporter in Washington, D.C., and specialized in statistical analysis of criminal justice and legal proceedings through a Poynter Institute Fellowship at D.C. Witness. Her work has appeared in The Marshall Project, Slate, the Associated Press, and other publications.

At Columbia University, Tory served as a teaching assistant for the geospatial data analysis and mapping techniques course in the M.S. data journalism program. She holds an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia Journalism School and attended the Lede Program, where she specialized in interactive and graphic journalism. She earned dual B.A. degrees in Political Science and Journalism from the University of Colorado Boulder.

Tory is a mentor and awards judge for the Data Visualization Society and a mentor for Investigative Reporters and Editors.