• Transparency Series Workshop – Climate Change

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

    On Saturday of our exploration into the climate change beat, we will survey the current landscape of reporting on climate change, and look to the tools, data and resources that exist for reporters trying to write about the topic. In three consecutive sessions, students will be paired with PhD students in Columbia's Environmental Science program

  • Magic Grant Information Session & Mixer (Columbia)

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

    Are you passionate about the role that emerging technologies can play in the future of media? Do you have a story that can only be told using technology outside the scope of traditional media? A Brown Institute Magic Grant might be for you. Established in 2012 as a collaboration between Columbia University’s Journalism School and

  • Visual Language Workshop

    601A in Pulitzer Hall, Columbia University 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    The Brown institute at Columbia will be offering a three-session workshop on Visual Language, designed for journalism students to build vocabularies and practical skills around visual design through lectures, discussions, and hands-on sessions. You will walk away with a basic understanding of design principles and an overview of the graphics editor Adobe Illustrator. In the

  • “Muddied Waters: Online rumors, conspiracy theories and disinformation in the context of crisis response”

    Brown Institute at Stanford 355 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA

    Kate Starbird  Assistant Professor, Human Centered Design & Engineering University of Washington (RSVP) Social media are now an established feature of crisis response. People—including emergency responders, members of the affected community, and remote onlookers—are repeatedly turning to platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat to seek and share information about crisis events. However, there remain significant

  • Magic Grant Information Session (Stanford)

    Brown Institute at Stanford 355 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA

    Want to learn more about our Magic Grants? Come to one of our upcoming information session where you can find out: What kind of projects we funded in the past. What kind of projects we didn't fund in the past. How our staff can help you develop your proposal. What our eligibility guidelines are. How to apply.

  • Magic Grant Information Session & Mixer (Columbia)

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

    Are you passionate about the role that emerging technologies can play in the future of media? Do you have a story that can only be told using technology outside the scope of traditional media? A Brown Institute Magic Grant might be for you. Established in 2012 as a collaboration between Columbia University’s Journalism School and

  • Visual Language Workshop: Part II

    601A in Pulitzer Hall, Columbia University 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    The Brown institute at Columbia will be offering a three-session workshop on Visual Language, designed for journalism students to build vocabularies and practical skills around visual design through lectures, discussions,

  • Transparency Series Discussion – Networks

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

    Join us for an evening discussion between Kevin Connor, LittleSis and Frederik Obermaier, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist from Suddeutsche Zeitung. They will discuss networks and the role they can play in journalistic

  • Transparency Series Workshop – Networks

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

    Graph databases are optimized for working with complex and connected data. Social media data is a great example of a complex dataset where the connections in the data are often as important as the discrete data points, making it a great use case for applying network analysis using a graph database. In this hands-on workshop

  • Visual Language Workshop: Part III

    601A in Pulitzer Hall, Columbia University 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

    The Brown institute at Columbia will be offering a three-session workshop on Visual Language, designed for journalism students to build vocabularies and practical skills around visual design through lectures, discussions, and hands-on sessions. You will walk away with a basic understanding of design principles and an overview of the graphics editor Adobe Illustrator. In the

  • Magic Grant Information Session (Stanford)

    Brown Institute at Stanford 355 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA

    Want to learn more about our Magic Grants? Come to one of our upcoming information sessions where you can find out: What kind of projects we funded in the past. What kind of projects we didn't fund in the  past. How our staff can help you develop your proposal. What our eligibility guidelines are. How

  • Base Camp 2018

    Brown Institute at Stanford 355 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA

    The Brown Institute for Media Innovation invites you to apply to the Media Innovation Base Camp taking place on March 3-4, 2018 at Stanford University. The Media Innovation Base Camp offers a great starting point for entrepreneurial students who want to explore the interplay between story and technology. All travel and lodging expenses will be covered

  • Magic Grant Information Session & Mixer (Columbia)

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

    Are you passionate about the role that emerging technologies can play in the future of media? Do you have a story that can only be told using technology outside the scope of traditional media? A Brown Institute Magic Grant might be for you. Established in 2012 as a collaboration between Columbia University’s Journalism School and Stanford’s School of

  • Transparency Series Seminar: Augmented Reality

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

    This is perhaps our most experimental event in terms of “distance” from journalistic practice. Augmented reality (AR) provides a view of an event or phenomenon that is enhanced, “augmented,” with computer-generated elements, perhaps responding to sensor input (sound, video of the event, GPS coordinates) or triggers computed through computer vision tools operating on the scene.

  • Transparency Series Workshop: Augmented Reality

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

    The storytelling capacity with AR is enormous, although the toolsets are still a bit hard to use. Join members from Etsy and the New York Times to get up-and-running with augmented reality, and spend the day building a story prototype utilizing the technology. Apply for the workshop

  • Public Record Under Threat: News and the Archive in the Age of Digital Distribution

    Oberndorf Event Center / 641 Knight Way 641 Knight Way, Stanford, CA, United States

    Join Columbia University's Tow Center for Digital Journalismand the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Stanford University on April 13 for an afternoon conference on: Public Record Under Threat: News and the Archive in the Age of Digital Distribution. Panels will feature journalists, technologists, librarians, and engineers who will discuss how they are preserving the

  • Alternative Capturing Techniques for 3D Storytelling

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

    The Brown Institute is pleased to announce another training session related to Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) -- this one is brought to you by our own Rosalie Yu. Alternative Capturing Techniques for 3D Storytelling What can our phone cameras capture besides 2D images? How can you reconstruct a world in 3D using these

  • Innovation has nothing to do with tech: Optimizing for Trust in Journalism

    Brown Institute at Stanford 355 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA

    RSVP HERE What would a news organization look like if it was optimized for user trust? Getting there will take innovation, but not primarily the kind that involves new tech. Jay Rosen will spell out what he means by "optimizing for trust," and suggest the kind of innovation required, much of which involves new forms