RoughCut, a 2016-17 Magic Grant led by MacKenzie Leake, has been featured in Wired, as an editing tool that will “turn us all into filmmakers”. Now years in development, RoughCut seeks to develop a system to support the process of making a rough cut, a primary task in editing a video. Video production is a
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Closing Reception of Knowing Together
We are approaching the closing date for our Creative Technologist Rosalie Yu‘s recent project Knowing Together, a set of seven resin sculptures suspended in acrylic domes using unconventional capture and printing techniques. These sculptures render 3D models produced through collaborative photogrammetry by a group of 35 participants during a workshop commissioned by EdLab, the R&D unit at
Transparency Series on Data Visualization – February 15/16
Join us for the kick of our Spring 2019 Transparency Series sessions at Columbia Journalism School. For our first installment, we will be looking at Data Visualization. On Friday, February 15, we are joined by Jeremy White, New York Times, to hear about his work and their process for finding and telling stories through data.
2019-20 Magic Grant Proposals Due Monday, April 8!
2019-20 Magic Grant funding proposals are due Monday, April 8! Apply at: brown.submittable.com. The Brown Institute for Media Innovation is a bi-coastal research effort located within two premier universities: Columbia Journalism School and Stanford’s School of Engineering. Our mission is to develop new tools and modes of expression, and to create stories that escape the
Announcing New Fellowship Opportunities
The Brown Institute at Columbia University sponsors a variety of fellowship opportunities available to students, alumni, faculty, and professionals. Some of our fellowships are targeted, addressing a particular contemporary challenge facing journalism, while others are intended as a professional sabbatical. Some are task-oriented, while others are intended to retrain and retool. Below you’ll find an
Magic Grant Office Hours at Columbia
The Brown Institute at Columbia is hosting office hours starting on January 31, 2019 to discuss our magic grant opportunities. These one-on-one sessions allow you to sit down with a member of the Brown Institute staff to discuss: The types of projects we’re interested in supporting The various types of support we offer to grantees
Mapping and Visual Language Workshops
Mapping Module News unfolds in places and every newsworthy event is shaped by the details of location. Those details might include the specifics of a neighborhood as it is today or of the history leading to its current configurations. With the popularization of cartography, anyone with a computer and an internet connection can make a
Tonight at Brown at Columbia! Washington Post & NPR Discuss Voice Interfaces for Journalism
Tonight’s the night! We have our second Transparency Series event, this time on Voice User Interfaces (VUIs). VUIs also go by the more familiar names “personal assistants” or “smart speakers” — Think Siri, Alexa, Cortana or Google Assistant. This should be an exciting event! Voice platforms are still young enough that journalists can have a
‘Hacking Voter Suppression’ Project Begins
For the 2018-19 Magic Grant Season, the Brown Institute at Columbia is funding Hacking Voter Suppression, a project by Columbia Journalism School Professor June Cross and Charlotte Braithwaite, a Theater Director and Assistant Professor of Music and Theater Arts at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The project seeks to explore how foreign interference, gerrymandering, and