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Brown Institute Welcomes Technology Journalist Kara Swisher

McCaw Hall, Arrillaga Alumni Center 326 Galvez Street, Stanford, CA, United States

Brown welcomes technology journalist Kara Swisher, co-founder of Recode and a contributing writer to The New York Times Opinion Section. She previously wrote for The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, and served as co-executive editor of All Things Digital. Kara will discuss the state of the technology industry and will share her perspective on media trends with Brown Director Maneesh Agrawala. Thursday, May 2, 20196:30 pmMcCaw

A Science-Media Meetup for Climate Stories With Impact

Brown Institute at Pulitzer Hall (Journalism School) at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

The climate crisis poses a unique challenge to journalism. It touches every part of society, from politics and business to sports and culture, yet in many situations, we barely mention

Lanzamiento de Democracy Fighters

Casa Refugio Citlaltepetl Citlaltépetl 25, Hipódromo Condesa, Ciudad de México, Mexico City, Mexico

El Brown Institute for Media Innovation, el Comité de Protección a Periodistas, Artículo 19, y Casa Refugio Citlaltépetl cordialmente te invitan al lanzamiento de Democracy Fighters, un archivo viviente. Esta

How Charts Lie – A Talk by Alberto Cairo

Lecture Hall, Pulitzer Hall 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at? Charts, infographics, and diagrams are ubiquitous. They are useful

Brown Speaker Series featuring Sean Rameswaram, Host of Vox’s Today, Explained

Cypress Auditorium, Allen Extension 420 Via Palou Mall, Stanford, CA, United States

The Brown Institute is excited to welcome Sean Rameswaram, host of Today, Explained, Vox’s daily explainer podcast. As advertised by Vox, Today, Explained is your all killer, no filler, Monday to Friday news. Sean, a veteran of the podcast space, will discuss Vox’s novel approach to their daily show and will join Brown Institute Director

The Green New Deal: Shaping A Public Imagination with Kim Stanley Robinson

Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

Can climate fiction help overcome political friction? When climate change is the focus of both fiction and nonfiction, dystopia tends to rule. It’s not hard to see why, given that 30 years of efforts to push past fossil fuels have barely shifted the global energy mix and impacts on humans and nature mount as vulnerable

Local Time: A Challenge for Visualization with Johanna Drucker, UCLA

Zoom Meeting

Each year, the Brown Institute sponsors talks that explore the intersection between media and technology. This year we have three virtual presentations lined up, each challenging us to think about data and computation in new ways. Each talk is by researchers outside of journalism, and yet we have a great deal to learn from their

Data Feminism with Catherine D’Ignazio, MIT and Lauren Klein, Emory University

Zoom Meeting

Each year, the Brown Institute sponsors talks that explore the intersection between media and technology. This year we have three virtual presentations lined up, each challenging us to think about data and computation in new ways. Each talk is by researchers outside of journalism, and yet we have a great deal to learn from their

Anger + Hope – The founding of NPR and lessons for the future of public media

Virtual

RSVP here - Streaming at ohyay.co/s/npr Bill Siemering is a radio visionary. Sixty years ago, Siemering was hired to transform WBFO from a student-run college radio club into a professional station. Because of the experiments in radio that he led at WBFO throughout the 1960s, Siemering was invited to serve on the first board of

Women in Mathematics and Statistics

Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

Finding Strength in the Numbers: Growing Up Stories The Columbia-Barnard Mathematics Departments and the Columbia Statistics Department are proud to invite you to our inaugural Women in Mathematics and Statistics (WiMS) presentation Finding Strength in the Numbers: Growing Up Stories. Our speakers will share their STEM journey and how they are making their mark in