For the 2018-19 Magic Grant Season, the Brown Institute at Columbia is funding Hacking Voter Suppression, a project by Columbia Journalism School Professor June Cross and Charlotte Braithwaite, a Theater Director and Assistant Professor of Music and Theater Arts at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The project seeks to explore how foreign interference, gerrymandering, and
NYT & FiveThirtyEight Talk Election Polls at Brown
On October 12 & 13, the Brown Institute kicked off its 2018-2019 Transparency Series with a deep dive into polling and election polls. The event commenced with a seminar by Amanda Cox, editor of The Upshot at The New York Times. In response to polling results from the 2016 election combined with a lack of
To teach people about climate change, feed them journalism
We are pleased to initiate a new series of articles from the Brown Institute at the Columbia Journalism Review. Our first offering is about a dinner we hosted with the Aspen Institute and the Asia Society on climate change. There’s a story behind every ingredient that goes into our meals—each plant or animal we consume
Upcoming event on the Blockchain in Journalism
The Brown Institute and the Tow Center have collaborated on an event for students, reporters, editors, scholars, and entrepreneurs about the current state of blockchain technology and how it can be applied to journalism. For practitioners in media, Blockchain is in vogue today as a potential solution to the industry’s every-day problems and tasks, such
Slack’s Ceci Stallsmith on “Tech Trends for Media”
Ceci Stallsmith, Slack’s Director of Platform Marketing, says that spotting trends and frameworks are “calculated art, not science.” In 2012, three years before she joined Slack, it was just one of many messaging apps vying for a place in the sun. “Smartphones had become mainstream. It was the moment when business apps took off on iOS
Watch Beyond “I agree”: Cory Doctorow with Jad Abumrad
Beyond “I agree”: A democratic technology, without Big Tech A lecture and conversation with Jad Abumrad, host of WNYC’s Radiolab September 27, 2018 – 5:00-6:30pm The Lecture Hall in Pulitzer Hall The techlash marks the end of complacency over Big Tech: in a single instant, states have gone from being completely blase about the risks
Matter’s Corey Ford kicks off Stanford’s Media Innovation Seminar Series
Corey Ford, Managing Partner of Matter.vc, joined the Brown Institute at Stanford on Tuesday Sept. 25, 2018 to kick off the Institute’s fall Media Innovation seminar. Ford discussed key shifts in the media landscape since founding Matter in 2012. “We are at a pretty interesting time,” said Ford, who pointed out that media institutions are
Transparency Event on Political Polling – 10/12 and 13
We at the Brown Institute are pleased to announce our Transparency Series for the Fall of 2018. Each event consists of a talk, usually on a Friday night, and a day-long workshop on the accompanying Saturday. The talk on Friday is open to the public and the Saturday workshop is restricted to a group of
Office Hours announced for CJS Students
The Brown Institute is pleased to announce appointment-based office hours for students needing help in all things digital. This includes (but is not limited to) students seeking assistance with data, data visualization, mapping, augmented reality, virtual reality, 360-degree video and the Adobe Creative Suite. Please book office hours at brwn.co/office-hours or by using the tool