The Brown Institute, a collaboration between Columbia Journalism School and Stanford Engineering, awards annual “Magic Grants” to projects across both campuses that blend journalistic insight with technical innovation – from
“This Call May Be Recorded” Heads to the 2025 Tribeca Festival
We’re thrilled to share that This Call May Be Recorded—developed with support from a Brown Institute Magic Grant—has been named an official selection in the 2025 Tribeca Festival’s Audio Storytelling
Announcing the 2025-26 Magic Grant Call for Proposals
The David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation is excited to announce its 2025–2026 “Magic Grant” funding cycle, awarding up to $1M in total grants. We encourage bold,
Winner of the first Marco Cosio Fellowship Announced!
Late last year we announced the first fellowship competition in honor of the late Marco Castro Cosio, an artist, technologist, organizer, convener, educator, and a beloved member of the Brown
Now Accepting Applications: 2025 Startup Columbia Venture Competition
Startup Columbia is a series of campus-wide startup competitions offering non-dilutive cash prizes to the winning teams. For the past four years, the Brown Institute at Columbia has sponsored a
Announcing Points Unknown
Points Unknown, a workshop designed for journalism students, is a four-week series that introduces students to spatial investigative and visualization techniques. News unfolds in places and every newsworthy event is
Announcing the Inaugural Marco Castro Cosio Media Art and Technology Fellowship
In honor of the late Marco Castro Cosio, an artist, technologist, organizer, convener, educator, and a beloved fellow of the Brown Institute, we are proud to announce the launch of
Announcing Data Visualization Workshop with The Pudding
Graphical (or pictorial) presentations of data have become an almost essential part of journalistic practice. Data visualization helps us see patterns in data and is an important tool for finding
Campaign Finance Made Easy: Announcing ‘DataTalk’
DataTalk is an experimental system that makes it easier to follow the money flowing through national campaigns for the Nov. 5 U.S. election. It allows for natural-language queries of large