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By : mkrisch October 9, 2024

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

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By : mkrisch July 11, 2024July 11, 2024

Announcing the Launch of Climate Central’s Report: “Urban Heat Hot Spots in 65 Cities”

We are excited to announce a significant contribution to Climate Central’s groundbreaking report, Urban Heat Hot Spots in 65 Cities. This comprehensive analysis sheds light on how urban heat islands

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2024-25 Magic Grantees Read More
By : mkrisch May 23, 2024October 14, 2024

THE BROWN INSTITUTE ANNOUNCES ITS 2024-2025 MAGIC GRANT RECIPIENTS

As a collaboration between Columbia Journalism School and Stanford University’s School of Engineering, the Brown Institute for Media Innovation awards its “Magic Grants” to projects that work between the two

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By : mkrisch May 7, 2024May 23, 2024

Brown Institute Awarded Collaboratory Grant

The Brown Institute, in partnership with the Vagelos Computational Science Center, is excited to announce a significant new development at Barnard College—a pioneering course entitled “Writing with/on Computing,” slated to

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By : mkrisch February 21, 2024

Join us for an Open Source AI Hackathon

Catalyzing New Forms of Journalism and Civic Information Join Hacks/Hackers and the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Columbia University for a weekend of building with open source AI for

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2023-24 Grant Cohort at Beach Read More
By : mkrisch February 1, 2024May 6, 2024

Announcing the 2024-2025 “Magic Grant” Funding Opportunity

The David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation is proud to announce the 2024-2025 Magic Grant Call for Proposals. Each year, the Brown Institute awards close to $1M

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Historic Salt Lake Valley Air Quality Photo Read More
By : mkrisch January 23, 2024January 29, 2024

“Reaching for Air” goes live!

The Salt Lake Tribune, in collaboration with KUER, has launched an innovative interactive series titled “Reaching for Air”, accessible at reachingforair.sltrib.com. This three-part series, the work of journalists Saige Miller

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By : mkrisch January 1, 2024February 1, 2024

Announcing the 2024 Startup Columbia Venture Challenge

The submissions for the 2024 Startup Columbia Venture Challenge are due February 9th! For the past three years, Brown has sponsored a “Media Track” for this competition. It is designed

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By : mkrisch November 8, 2023November 13, 2023

Defensores de la Democracia wins Council of Europe’s Democracy Innovation Award

We are thrilled to announce that the DDLD Living Archive – Defensores de la Democracia (DDLD), a 2018-2019 Magic Grant, has been awarded the prestigious Council of Europe’s Democracy Innovation

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