• Generative AI Dine + Design

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

    In the last year, new generative AI platforms have made headlines. Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Bard, LLaMA and claude have been compared on their abilities to perform knowledge and reasoning tasks (answering questions, solving problems with external tools), language manipulation (generating summaries, translating text, “reversioning” stories), and common data analyses (structuring data, tagging

  • Using FOIA

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

    A Talk and demo of MuckRock, a website empowering citizens and journalists to write, file and track public records requests online, and its new FOIA Logs tool

  • Generative AI Dine + Design

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

    In the last year, new generative AI platforms have made headlines. Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Bard, LLaMA and claude have been compared on their abilities to perform knowledge and reasoning tasks (answering questions, solving problems with external tools), language manipulation (generating summaries, translating text, “reversioning” stories), and common data analyses (structuring data, tagging

  • Data Visualization Workshop with The Pudding

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

    Graphical (or pictorial) presentations of data have become an almost essential part of journalistic practice. Data visualization helps us see patterns in data and is an important tool for finding stories. Over the past decade, major outlets including The New York Times, Washington Post, and Reuters are publishing data visualizations that push the idea of

  • Generative AI Dine + Design

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

    In the last year, new generative AI platforms have made headlines. Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Bard, LLaMA and claude have been compared on their abilities to perform knowledge and reasoning tasks (answering questions, solving problems with external tools), language manipulation (generating summaries, translating text, “reversioning” stories), and common data analyses (structuring data, tagging

  • News Products and Entrepreneurship Weekend!

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

    Register to attend! Join the Brown Institute for a unique opportunity to learn about the latest trends in news product development! Our weekend-long event, taking place November 11 and 12, is led by industry leaders Dalit Shalom, Lead Product Designer at the New York Times, and Justin Hendrix, CEO and Editor of Tech Policy Press.

  • Generative AI Dine + Design

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

    In the last year, new generative AI platforms have made headlines. Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Bard, LLaMA and claude have been compared on their abilities to perform knowledge

  • Open Source AI Hackathon

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

    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

  • Creative Commons Open Licensing Workshop (Postponed until the Fall!)

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

    Curious how open licensing media content can better spread news? Join the Brown Institute for Media Innovation and Creative Commons for a practical workshop on Creative Commons licensing. Creative Commons

  • Data Visualization Workshop with The Pudding

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

    Graphical (or pictorial) presentations of data have become an almost essential part of journalistic practice. Data visualization helps us see patterns in data and is an important tool for finding stories. Over the past decade, major outlets including The New York Times, Washington Post, and Reuters have been publishing data visualizations that push the idea

  • AI Club at CJS

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

    Welcome to the Columbia Journalism School AI Club! We meet every other Monday in the Brown Institute (1st floor Pulitzer Hall). Sign up to Join For Session I - Analyzing Data With AI, the Tow Center’s Prof. Dhrumil Mehta and the Brown Institute’s Michael Krisch will introduce their respective centers. Then we’ll spend a bit

  • AI Club at CJS

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

    Welcome to the Columbia Journalism School AI Club! We meet every other Monday in the Brown Institute (1st floor Pulitzer Hall). Sign up to Join

  • AI Club at CJS

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

    Welcome to the Columbia Journalism School AI Club! For this session, we will walk through the various approaches to using NotebookLM -- followed by our session in two weeks which

  • AI Club at CJS

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

    Welcome to the Columbia Journalism School AI Club! We meet every other Monday in the Brown Institute (1st floor Pulitzer Hall). Sign up to Join

  • Data Visualization Workshop with The Pudding

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

    Graphical (or pictorial) presentations of data have become an almost essential part of journalistic practice. Data visualization helps us see patterns in data and is an important tool for finding

  • Decentralized Futures Hackathon

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

    What might creative infrastructure look like if it were designed not by centralized, algorithmic platforms, but by the communities who use it? The Decentralized Futures Hackathon is part of an art-driven series of experiments to reimagine creative infrastructure. Over the course of one day, participants will prototype new ways of working that expand both self-reliance

  • AI Club at CJS

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

    Welcome to the Columbia Journalism School AI Club! We meet every other Monday in the Brown Institute (1st floor Pulitzer Hall). Sign up to Join

  • AI Club at CJS

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

    Welcome to the Columbia Journalism School AI Club! We meet every other Monday in the Brown Institute (1st floor Pulitzer Hall). Sign up to Join

  • Learn how to Create News Content for Social Media – Workshop

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

    What should journalism look like in a social media-dominated world? Join us for a two day hands-on workshop, brought to you by the Brown Institute for Media Innovation and the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, in which you’ll build essential skills and create your own TikTok-style video! Friday will kick off with pizza and a

  • AI Club at CJS

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

    Welcome to the Columbia Journalism School AI Club! We meet every other Monday in the Brown Institute (1st floor Pulitzer Hall). This week, we'll explore text embeddings (aka semantic maps). Imagine a government agency suddenly releases a large trove of pdf documents. There's no way you can reasonably read millions of documents all at once