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January 2021
The Brown Institute Virtual Mixer
The Brown Institute offers grants, fellowships and unique internships. Our granting program, the so-called Magic Grants, have supported numerous alumni from the school — read about our current cohort here. You'll see powerful investigative projects (one appearing on the front page of the New York Times this weekend) as well as grants that support new technologies for reporting or telling a story. We support great journalism and great tech and the mixture of the two. Our internships are equally unique…
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Immersive Journalism, with Francesca Panetta
Francesca Panetta is an immersive artist, director and journalist. She uses emerging technologies to innovate new forms of storytelling that have social impact. She was XR Creative Director at MIT’s Center for Advanced Virtuality where she made flagship work such as In Event of Moon Disaster. Before that she worked at the Guardian for over a decade pioneering new forms of journalism, including setting up and running the in-house virtual reality studio. Her works have won critical acclaim - receiving…
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