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Introducing the Brown Institute Innovation Challenge in Journalism, Media, and Technology
Announcing Brown’s Innovation Challenge @Columbia! [Register for the PITCH PRACTICE SESSION, February 17 12:30-2:00 pm EST] [Applications are due February 25] We are pleased to announce a competition for Columbia
The Brown Institute’s 2021 Annual Magic Grant Showcase!
Maneesh Agrawala and Mark Hansen cordially invite you to the 2021 Magic Grant Showcase, highlighting projects from the Brown Institute for Media Innovation! Join us for a virtual reception starting at
The Lumen Prize awards Ziv Schneider’s “Sylvia” with the Still Image award
“Sylvia”, a Virtual Influencer designed by the Brown Institute’s Creative Technologist Ziv Schneider, has won the 2021 Lumen Prize for Art and Technology in the Still Image category. The Lumen
Announcing the Computation+Journalism Conference for 2021
C+J 2021 —A virtual gathering. From the outset, 2020 looked like it would be a year of data and computation in journalism. Think of the events that were planned —
The Launch of the ‘Documenting COVID-19’ Public Records Repository
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended American life and forced state and local governments to enact important policy decisions with incomplete or uncertain information. To help explain these decisions to the public,
The Brown Institute is Proud to Announce Its 2020-2021 Magic Grants
The Brown Institute for Media Innovation, a collaboration between Stanford University’s School of Engineering and Columbia Journalism School, is pleased to announce its 2020-2021 Magic Grant recipients. Every year, the
Who’s in Charge?
This post is part of a series of profiles of our current 2019-20 Magic Grants. It gives us an opportunity to brag about the great work being done by our
Life on the Screen
This post is part of a series of profiles of our current 2019-20 Magic Grants. It gives us an opportunity to brag about the great work being done by our