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By Bernat Ivancsics and Bhaskar Ghosh Yesterday, The New York Times’ R&D team, in collaboration with IBM Garage, released the initial findings of The News Provenance Project (NPP), which began in July. The project is an attempt to curb the growing threat of misinformation by making the sources and origin (i.e. provenance) of journalistic content

Nigeria’s estimated 58,000 maternal deaths account for a staggering 19% of the world’s annual total — a statistic from a country that represents just 2.6% of the world’s population. Mobile blood banks, free health care for mothers and newborns in some Nigerian states, and community health care centers in underserved regions have led to noticeable

As we move into 2020, we thought we would take a moment to reflect on both our struggles and success of 2019. From our new staff additions Ziv Schneider and Alex Calderwood, to project launches (below), to new partnerships, Brown has had a big year! Premiers and Launches This year we saw yet another batch

Alberto Cairo is an associate professor and Knight Chair of Visual Journalism at the University of Miami. He recorded this interview with Alex Calderwood before delivering a lecture about his recently released book How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information. What spurred you to write this book? Have you been thinking about it for

We are pleased to announce that the team behind 1000 Cut Journey, which was awarded our 2018-19 Flagship Magic Grant, has partnered with acclaimed visual studio iNK Stories, to expand their Virtual Reality (VR) experience. The project is a bi-coastal initiative between Professor Courtney Cogburn’s research group at the Columbia University School of Social Work

Medium’s Chief Architect Xiao Ma spoke at Stanford on Nov. 5th asking the question: How does technology reshape content discovery and delivery? He unpacked Medium’s on-point recommendation system, a hybrid model that joins collaborative filtering (“How can we recommend content based on your previous history and people similar to you?”) and content-based filtering (“I don’t

Eve Weston, CEO and founder of Los-Angeles based VR studio Exelauno told Stanford  students that she has developed a way to talk about VR — what she calls a “taxonomy” for VR. This taxonomy unpacks the emotional intensity of the VR experience into its key parts: Narrative (1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person?) Visual Options (Embodied

Rethinking Audio: Michael Mellody and Liz Gannes, Google News The rise of virtual assistants increasingly allows us to be informed, enlightened and entertained when our hands and eyes are busy. Demand is high: home assistants commanded a 40 percent year over year growth. Increasingly, people want news through these mediums, throughout the day – especially