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ON THE TOW BLOG NewsLynx - Launching, Installing and Lynxing at SRCCON Michael Keller and Brian Abelson "Two weeks ago we did our first NewsLynx install party at the SRCCON conference in Minneapolis and it went great! We had about a half dozen folks get the Core API service up and running and we got some starting contributions on other install techniques using tools like Docker. We also brainstormed potential future ideas such as organizational level dashboards with week-on-week or month-on-month comparisons. Over-sized post-its were sketched upon and many sharpies used." Read the blog post here Computer Security Tools for Journalists Lacking in a Post-Snowden World Jennifer Langston "A new study by University of Washington and Columbia University researchers that will be presented next month at the 24th USENIX Security Symposium probed the computer security habits of 15 journalists across two continents and found a number of security weaknesses in their technological tools and ad-hoc workarounds." Read the blog post here TOW CENTER REPORTS The Traffic Factories Caitlin Petre NewsLynx: A Tool for Newsroom Impact Measurement Michael Keller and Brian Abelson Digital News Report 2015 Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism TOW CENTER IN THE NEWS Emily Bell: News groups should use tech for ‘good’ journalism Journalism.co.uk Websites can create outrageous lies just for clicks, but why and how is this legal? The Independent The future of news: Stop the presses! Financial Times 'Like' on Facebook Follow on Twitter Share on Tumblr Watch Tow Events Tow Center Website