The next Transparency Series event is on the use of Virtual Reality (VR) in journalism. With the recent explosion of VR – specifically 360-degree video– journalistic outlets are hungry for quality
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Election Hackathon with Journalism, Political Science and Data Science
Interested in politics, social media, and big data? The Brown Institute for Media Innovation, the Data Science Institute, and the Departments of Political Science and Statistics are sponsoring a Hackathon on October
Introducing the 2016-2017 Base Camps
The Brown Institute for Media Innovation at the Columbia Journalism School and the School of Engineering at Stanford University invite you to apply to the Media Innovation Base Camps taking
Media Innovation Showcase Draws Crowd at Stanford
More than 200 people turned out for the first annual Brown Institute Media Innovation Showcase last night at Stanford University. The event recognized the innovative work of 12 Magic Grant
Photoville opening – “Women on the Outside”
Lisa Riordan Seville and Zara Katz, fellows of our Photography Expanded program, and photographer Zora J. Murff are exhibiting an installation of photography, video and, yes, data visualization, at the Photoville festival
Transparency Series on Polling
The Brown Institute began it’s 2016-2017 Transparency Series with a day-long workshop on opinion polls. Harry Enten and Neil Paine from FiveThirtyEight introduced 25 students to the complexities of modern polling. Many organizations conduct
#Rio2016 meets #NYCML16 at the Brown Institute
The Brown Institute was delighted to host a portion of the New York Media Lab Summit 2016. The day-long event featured talks, demonstrations and workshops, and was billed as a
Joanna Coles visits Brown
On September 15, the Brown Institute welcomed Joanna Coles, Hearst’s first Chief Content Officer. Coles spoke to about 100 students on the lawn outside the Mathematics Building on the Columbia
Brown to host first Media Innovation Showcase
The Brown Institute will be hosting its first ever Media Innovation Showcase on September 29. We’ll be celebrating another year of stellar Magic Grant projects with presentations, demos, food and