Transparency Series Workshop – Drone Photography

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

Following on the heels of a seminar by Missy Higgins on Friday night, on Saturday, we will get our hands dirty and take a field trip north of NYC and

NYC Media Lab Combine Infosession

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

Are you building a startup? Join NYC Media Lab’s Combine accelerator program to help take your idea to the next level and bring your startup to market. Join us for an Information Session for the Combine Accelerator to learn more about the opportunities available to journalism students. If accepted in the accelerator, participating teams will

Richard Gingras: Trust, Media, and the Evolution of Democracy

Packard 101, Stanford University 350 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, United States

The Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Stanford University welcomes our second Media Innovator Series Speaker for 2017-2018, Vice-President of News at Google, Richard Gingras, in a talk entitled "Trust,

Reboot: Informing the Electorate

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

Reboot Democracy brings together innovators in the technological and political spheres, helps them connect with each other, and supports their development of tools that will revolutionize our democratic system. This month we’re teaming up with Harmony Labs and the Brown Institute for Media Innovation for our next event focused on Informing the Electorate. Teams will

Are Troll Armies Killing Free Speech?

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

In his essay for the Knight Institute's Emerging Threats series, Columbia Law School's Tim Wu observes that some of the forces undermining contemporary political discourse — such as “troll armies,” “flooding,” and propaganda robots —

Transparency Series Seminar – Climate Change

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

Food production. Transportation. Energy usage. Critical infrastructure. Climate change is affecting almost every aspect of our lives. But reporting on climate is challenging, and many journalists feel uncomfortable engaging the topic outside an environmental beat. The subject can be technical, supported by data and models, some of which do not agree. Join us for a

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)

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, 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

Transparency Series Discussion – Networks

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 reporting and communication. Data journalists often find that the complexity or the relationships between the various entities they are investigating force them out of simple

Transparency Series Workshop – Networks

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

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

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)

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