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
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1000 Cut Journey Announces New Partnership with iNK Stories
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
Announcing Fall Programming Lineup at Columbia
We’re excited to announce our Fall programming lineup at the Brown Institute at Columbia! We have a diverse set of journalists, designers, and technology experts coming to our space to lecture, teach, and engage. Can’t wait for you to join us! A Science-Media Meetup for Climate Stories With Impact For Climate week, the Brown
Open Source Investigation
This post contains reports from two Columbia Journalism School students who attended Bellingcat’s five day Open Source / Digital Research Training Workshop, hosted by Graphika, Inc. The workshop taught students how to conduct investigations into online information sources such as social media feeds, satellite imagery, and user-generated videos. Bellingcat, founded by Eliot Higgins, is known for