Staff
Emily Bell
Founding Director and Leonard Tow Professor of Journalism
Staff
Dhrumil Mehta
Assistant Director
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Staff
Peter D. Brown
Research Director
Staff
Pri Bengani
Computational Journalism Fellow
Staff
Jueni Tran
Research Fellow
Staff
Klaudia Jazwinska
Research Lead, Platform and Publishers
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Staff
Sarah G. Gotfredsen
Steve Coll investigative Fellow
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Staff
Kathleen Johnston
Program Director
Staff
Hana Joy
Program Manager
Current Fellows
Sarah Stonbely
Research Fellow, Tow Center
Current Fellows
Andrea Wenzel
Assistant Professor, Temple University
Former Fellows
Christopher Ali
Associate Professor, Department of Media Studies, University of Virginia
Former Fellows
Abhay Aneja
PhD Candidate, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
Former Fellows
Victoria Baranetsky
General Counsel, The Center for Investigative Reporting
Former Fellows
A. J. Bauer
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
Former Fellows
Burcu Baykurt
Doctoral Candidate, Columbia University
Former Fellows
Charles Berret
Student, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM, Journalism
Former Fellows
Kaizar Campwala
Entrepreneur In Residence, Al Jazeera Media Network
Former Fellows
Heather Chaplin
founding director Journalism + Design, The New School. Associate professor
Former Fellows
Letrell Crittenden
Program Director and Assistant Professor of Communication, Thomas Jefferson University
Former Fellows
Samuel Danzon-Chambaud
Media Researcher with Dublin City University’s Institute for Future Media and Journalism
Former Fellows
Nicholas Diakopoulos
Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Computer Science, Northwestern University
Former Fellows
Sam Ford
Media executive and researcher working on media innovation, audience engagement, cultural intelligence, and storytelling experimentation
Former Fellows
Maxwell Foxman
Assistant Professor of Media Studies and Game Studies, University of Oregon | School of Journalism and Communication.
Former Fellows
Dr. Elizabeth A. Hansen
Senior Research Fellow
Former Fellows
Jeff Hemsley
Assistant Professor, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University
Former Fellows
Cameron Hickey
Project Director for algorithmic transparency, National Conference on Citizenship
Former Fellows
Julia Hirschberg
Percy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor and Chair of Computer Science, Columbia University
Former Fellows
Marguerite Y. Holloway
Associate Professor of Professional Practice in the Faculty of Journalism; Co-Director, MA Science Journalism Program, Graduate School of Journalism
Former Fellows
Sarah Ita Levitan
Post Doc, Columbia University
Former Fellows
Bernat Ivancsics
Ph.D. Candidate, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Former Fellows
Dennis Kinsey
Director of Public Diplomacy, Director of Newhouse School Doctoral Program, Professor of Public Relations, Syracuse University
Former Fellows
Magda Koniecza
Assistant Professor, Department of Journalism, Klein College, Temple University
Former Fellows
Yafit Lev-Aretz
Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Information Law Institute at NYU
Former Fellows
Michelle F. Levine
Adjunct Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science
Former Fellows
Seth C. Lewis
Shirley Papé Chair in Emerging Media, University of Oregon
Former Fellows
Joon Soo Lim
Knight News Innovation Fellow
Former Fellows
Regina Luttrell
Assistant Professor of Public Relations and Social Media, Syracuse University
Former Fellows
Stephen Masiclat
Professor and Director of New Media Management Graduate Program, Syracuse University
Former Fellows
Susan E McGregor
Associate Research Scholar in the Data Science Institute, Data Science Institute
Former Fellows
Irene McKisson
General Manager of Niche Audience Development, Arizona Daily Star
Former Fellows
Christoph Mergerson
Ph.D. candidate in Communication, Information, and Media in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University
Former Fellows
Jeremy Merrill
freelance data journalist
Former Fellows
Anthony Nadler
Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies, Ursinus College
Former Fellows
Efrat Nechushtai
Knight News Innovation Fellow
Former Fellows
Jacob Nelson
assistant professor, Arizona State University
Former Fellows
Sejin Paik
Ph.D. Student, Emerging Media Studies at Boston University’s College of Communication
Former Fellows
Becky Pallack
Product Manager, Arizona Daily Star
Former Fellows
Colin Porlezza
Senior Assistant Professor of Digital Journalism, Institute of Media and Journalism; Università della Svizzera italiana
Former Fellows
Damian Radcliffe
Carolyn S. Chambers Professor in Journalism, Professor of Practice, at the University of Oregon
Former Fellows
Adrian Blanco Ramos
2020 Knight Fellow
Former Fellows
Dr. Jeannine Relly
Associate Professor / Director of Global Initiatives, the University of Arizona/Center for Border and Global Journalism
Former Fellows
Sharon Ringel
Adjunct Associate Research Scholar in the Faculty of Journalism, Graduate School of Journalism
Former Fellows
Madelyn Sanfilippo
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Information Law Institute at NYU
Former Fellows
Kate Seabury
Director, Original Content Development, Audible
Former Fellows
Michael Shapiro
Professor of Journalism, Graduate School of Journalism
Former Fellows
Felix M. Simon
Leverhulme Doctoral Scholar, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
Former Fellows
Jenny Stromer-Galley
Professor in the School of Information Studies and Director for the Center for Computational and Data, School for Information Studies, Syracuse University
Former Fellows
Doron Taussig
Journalism and politics at Ursinus College
Former Fellows
Danielle Lee Tomson
Student, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM, Journalism
Former Fellows
Duy Linh Tu
Associate Professor of Professional Practice in the Faculty of Journalism, Graduate School of Journalism
Former Fellows
Allissa V. Richardson
Assistant Professor, University of Southern California
Former Fellows
Hilde Van den Bulck
professor of Communication Studies and Head of the Department of Communication at Drexel University
Former Fellows
Qun Wang
Assistant Professor, Fordham University
Former Fellows
Elizabeth Anne Watkins
Research Assistant, Tow Center for Digital Journalism
Former Fellows
Sarah Wiley
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Minnesota
Former Fellows
Miya Williams Fayne
Assistant Professor, California State University, Fullerton
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Former Fellows
Angela Mary Woodall
Ph.D. Student, Columbia University
Former Fellows
Emilie Yu Marine Xie
Ph.D. candidate, Columbia University
Former Fellows
Natacha Yazbeck
Ph.D., Associate Director of the Center on Digital Culture and Society and postdoctoral fellow, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Former Fellows
Rodrigo Zamith
Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Former Fellows
Kathy Zhang
Research Affiliate, Center for Sustainable Urban Development at Columbia University
Former Fellows
Shira Zilberstein
Doctoral Student, Harvard University
Former Fellows
Javier Sauras
2020 Knight Fellow
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Former Fellows
Jonathan Albright
Director, Digital Forensics Initiative
Former Fellows
Mia Shuang Li
Adjunct Associate Research Scholar, Graduate School of Journalism
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Former Fellows
Jon Keegan
Senior Research Fellow
Former Fellows
Gabby Miller
Senior Reporting Fellow
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Former Fellows
Nushin Rashidian
Lead Research Fellow, Platforms and Publishers
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Former Fellows
Georgios Tsiveriotis
Senior Research Fellow
Former Fellows
Sara Rafsky
Senior Research Fellow
Former Fellows
Ishaan A Jhaveri
Research Fellow
Former Fellows
Joel Simon
Research Fellow
Former Fellows
Jem Bartholomew
Reporting Fellow
Former Fellows
Sara Sheridan
Editor and Researcher
Former Fellows
Aaron Brezel
Adjunct Research Scholar