The David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation is a joint effort between Stanford’s School of Engineering and Columbia Journalism School. Each year, the Brown Institute awards close to $1M in grants to help you “follow your passion and experiment with new approaches to storytelling,” to paraphrase Helen Gurley Brown. Proposals are due April 10, 2023!
Supporting Communities through “Equitable Data”
US Chief Data Scientist Denice Ross and Deputy US Chief Data Scientist Dominique Duval-Diop visit the Brown Institute on March 30. Public Talk: 11-12:30 ET [RSVP Here] Lunch with Students:
Missing Them Exhibits at Photoville
To mark the 3rd anniversary of COVID in New York City, the MISSING THEM project is partnering with Photoville to bring stories and obits from our project to community spaces
Announcing the 2023 Brown Institute Innovation Challenge
Applications due March 8! Register here! The Brown Institute, in partnership with the Columbia Venture Competition at Columbia Entrepreneurship, are pleased to announce a competition for Columbia students, alumni and
After six months, Data Fixers achieves 100 mentions and new cross-border investigations
Data Fixers, a data-driven journalistic project sponsored by The Brown Institute for Media Innovation, has recently published two major investigative projects and garnered 100 citations and publications in media outlets
Announcing Lectures in Data Visualization
The Brown Institute at Columbia Journalism School, in partnership with the Data Science Institute and the Department of Computer Science, is excited to present a lecture series that delves into
Julia Angwin Joins the Brown Institute as an Entrepreneur in Residence
The Brown Institute is delighted to welcome Julia Angwin as a 2023 Entrepreneur in Residence! Since 2021 the institute has been welcoming established founders to work with our students and
Kinfolk at MoMA!
Kinfolk will be one of 12 participants in the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibit, Architecture Now: New York, New Publics! On view February 19 through July 29, 2023, the show will examine new takes
Institute Fellows making waves with Atlos Project
The Brown Institute is pleased to announce that 2022-2023 fellows Noah Schechter and Miles McCain have received top innovation awards from both the Westly Foundation and IE University’s Tech4Democracy initiative
Brown Institute Office Hours
The Brown Institute staff hold office hours each week to help CJS students, faculty and staff. They have very different backgrounds, but they can each help you explore the ways