The Brown Institute serves as a digital hub at the school, researching and building the future of journalism. Join us in the Brown Institute to meet with our researchers and staff, and learn more about the various opportunities and offerings afforded to students during their time at the Journalism School as well as upon graduation.
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
Points Unknown, a workshop series designed for journalism students, is an eight-week series to introduce students to spatial investigative and visualization techniques. News unfolds in places and every newsworthy event is shaped by the details of location. Those details might include the specifics of a neighborhood as it is today or of the history leading
Points Unknown, a workshop series designed for journalism students, is an eight-week series to introduce students to spatial investigative and visualization techniques. News unfolds in places and every newsworthy event is shaped by the details of location. Those details might include the specifics of a neighborhood as it is today or of the history leading
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
Points Unknown, a workshop series designed for journalism students, is an eight-week series to introduce students to spatial investigative and visualization techniques. News unfolds in places and every newsworthy event is shaped by the details of location. Those details might include the specifics of a neighborhood as it is today or of the history leading
Points Unknown, a workshop series designed for journalism students, is an eight-week series to introduce students to spatial investigative and visualization techniques. News unfolds in places and every newsworthy event is shaped by the details of location. Those details might include the specifics of a neighborhood as it is today or of the history leading
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
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
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
The crime beat has long been leveraged by American newsrooms to drive traffic, generate revenue, and fulfill the duty of informing the public. While the familiar narrative of perpetrators committing crimes consistently captures the public’s attention, these stories rarely produce the safer communities promised by being better-informed citizens, especially for the individuals and communities historically
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.
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
The 2024 Startup Columbia Venture Challenge is open for submissions! For the past three years, Brown has sponsored a "Media Track" for this competition. This is designed for students, recent alumni and faculty who are interested in starting a new venture. These might be for-profit or non-profit and should involve journalism, media and technology in
2024 will be a landmark election year in at least two ways. First, more than a quarter of the countries in the world, representing a third of global population, and comprising several of the largest democracies, including Indonesia, India, and the United States, will cast ballots. Second, this will be the first large election cycle
Kevin Guyan will join CJS for a talk on "Queer Data". Guyan, soon to be a Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, has written extensively on data collection and LGBTQ communities. The first step in so many reporting projects is a data set, and even our own US Census Bureau has proposed asking questions about Sexual Orientation and Gender
The 2024 Startup Columbia Venture Challenge is open for submissions! For the past three years, Brown has sponsored a "Media Track" for this competition. This is designed for students, recent alumni and faculty who are interested in starting a new venture. These might be for-profit or non-profit and should involve journalism, media and technology in
The David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute at Columbia Journalism School and the School of Engineering at Stanford are delighted to announce its 2023-2024 Magic Grant program. Applications are due March 29, 2024! To provide more information about our grants and the application process, the Brown Institute is hosting Magic Grant Information Sessions on the
Join us for this special panel which will focus on global reporting on human rights, as defined by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, within the evolving landscape of AI and the challenges and opportunities it presents. Delving into the influence of AI in international media and how the technology can be leveraged for human
Do you have a computing idea you would like to try, perhaps related to some data you’re looking at? Or some documents or a web site? Do you have an idea to engage audiences around some AI application? What about tools for local newsrooms?
The second Wednesday of every month, join us at the Brown Institute from 6-9pm for a dine-and-design event — open time to explore, to ask questions, to socialize with other students and practicing journalists, all interested in generative AI. A light dinner will be served.
