Associate Professor in Data Journalism @columbiajourn; Deputy Director @towcenter; Visiting Associate Professor in Public Policy @Kennedy_School
Joined March 2013
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Dhrumil Mehta retweeted
Mar 25
Those "BREAKING" news alerts on your timeline might be connected to Polymarket.
Read my new story from the @TowCenter on the betting market's affiliation to innocuously named accounts like @NewsWire_US and @rawsalerts
cjr.org/tow_center/polymarke…
ALT Bar chart showing network of Polymarket-affiliated news accounts, which get over 3x the impressions that Polymarket's official account recieves
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Dhrumil Mehta retweeted
28 Aug 2025
When we asked seven different AI models to identify the location, date and source of photos taken by photojournalists, they collectively only answered 14 out of 280 queries completely correctly.
@Aisvarya17 @klaudiajaz @CJR @columbiajourn
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Dhrumil Mehta retweeted
5 Mar 2025
Just a reminder that all the data FiveThirtyEight collected—polls, election results, and much more—is available for download (for now) on our GitHub page. github.com/fivethirtyeight
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Dhrumil Mehta retweeted
5 Mar 2025
damn. end of an era. ABC completely fumbled a real jewel.
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Dhrumil Mehta retweeted
8 Nov 2024
🚨This is an invaluable resource for many a journalist and researcher - utterly non partisan but a source for transparency about money in politics now under financial threat
8 Nov 2024
SCOOP: OpenSecrets, the nonpartisan money-in-politics research nonprofit, laid off 10 employees yesterday due to financial difficulties. Much of the research team were among the casualties, which constituted around a third of the group’s total headcount. politico.com/newsletters/pla…
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5 Nov 2024
Students in the Data Journalism MS program @columbiajourn worked with @TowCenter to track a big October digital ad spend by Courier Newsroom, an organization that blurs the line between political campaigning and local journalism.
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5 Nov 2024
Some of the ads (like the ones shown here) were explicitly political ads aiming to mobilize votes for Democratic candidates.
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5 Nov 2024
This comes as initiatives are looking to revive struggling local newsrooms. “What could that $6 million have done if it was dedicated to local quality journalism?” wondered Anna Brugmann of Rebuild Local News.
You can read the story here on CJR! cjr.org/tow_center/courier-n…
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Dhrumil Mehta retweeted
5 Nov 2024
Courier Newsroom spent big on a Meta ad blitz in October. Combined, the progressive “newsroom”’s over $6 million ad spend on Meta was second only to the Trump and Harris official campaigns. From @TowCenter cjr.org/tow_center/courier-n…
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Dhrumil Mehta retweeted
23 Sep 2024
Today is the final day to register for our AI and the Newsroom conference!
RSVP on Eventbrite:
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12 Sep 2024
Join us for a sweeping exploration of AI and ethics in today’s journalism, including discussions from leading industry thinkers and news practitioners, hands-on workshops, and new research. @columbiajourn
Reserve your spot:
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Dhrumil Mehta retweeted
12 Sep 2024
Join us for a sweeping exploration of AI and ethics in today’s journalism, including discussions from leading industry thinkers and news practitioners, hands-on workshops, and new research. @columbiajourn
Reserve your spot:
eventbrite.com/e/ai-and-the-…
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8 Jul 2024
𝗗𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝗶𝘁 𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗹 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗙𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝘀!
The Data Journalism Teachers' Club's first✏️online hands-on course design workshop✏️ with Dr. @anitasundrani is on Wednesday.
🛠️Sign up below to build with us!🛠️
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8 Jul 2024
This summer Dr. @anitasundrani will lead us through a "Backwards Design" approach to designing classes!
Part 1 : July 10 - Effective Assessments
Part 2: Aug 14 - Building a Better Syllabus
Part 3: Sept (TBD) - Aligning your teaching with your new syllabus
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8 Jul 2024
Haven't heard of us? Join the Data Journalism Teachers' Club or check out our past events 📆 and blogposts 🖊️at datajournalismteachers.club!
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Dhrumil Mehta retweeted
2 May 2024
There is more to say, but for now let me tell you how proud I am of our @columbiajourn students, whom I've watched report non-stop for days, sleep on floors, support one another & give their all to bearing witness under dire conditions: pulitzer.org/news/statement-… @PulitzerPrizes
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Dhrumil Mehta retweeted
26 Apr 2024
Dismayed at the dis- and misinformation swirling around the protests @columbia , #cjsStabile students @columbiajourn are exposing falsehoods in a new @X account called @CJS_FACTCHECK.
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Dhrumil Mehta retweeted
23 Apr 2024
My @columbiajourn students are out reporting non-stop: working sources they've built over months, navigating the campus unlike any outsider, and adding much-needed context, humanity and depth to coverage.
If you're an editor looking to commission them, get in touch.
22 Apr 2024
Hi, newsrooms: If you are relying on Columbia-affiliated journalists, namely student professionals in various programs at @columbiajourn, for exclusive, inside-campus coverage of protests and events, it is common (industry) courtesy and standard to compensate them for their work.
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16 Apr 2024
There's a lot of speculation about the uses of AI in elections, but I'm always keeping an eye out for actual documented uses. So excited to follow this project. I know I'll be checking this feed regularly throughout the year.
16 Apr 2024
I'm VERY excited to launch a new project today! @restofworld's AI Elections Tracker will track incidents of AI being used around elections globally - for campaigning, misinformation, and memes. Check out our entries so far - restofworld.org/2024/electio…
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8 Mar 2024
Tshirts for the #nicarscavengerhunt have arrived!!!! Come find me before or after #NICAR24 lightning talks if you ordered one! ⚡️
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