We’ll go over a brief overview of the Brown Institute’s history and work, and give an outline of our Magic Grants program and policies. Open office hours will also be held through February and March (except February 8) in Gates 176, Fridays 1:30-4. Please email Ann Grimes to confirm or request an alternate time.
The Brown institute is offering a three-session workshop on Visual Literacy, 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 workshop you will
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
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 to its current configurations. With the popularization of cartography, anyone with a computer and an internet connection can make a map, yet
'Protecting High-Risk Users at The New York Times' Runa Sandvik joined The New York Times in 2016 to build a security program dedicated to the newsroom, putting the focus on
The Brown institute is offering a three-session workshop on Visual Literacy, designed for journalism students to build vocabularies and practical skills around visual design through lectures, discussions, and hands-on sessions.
The Columbia University Graduate Program in Music presents its annual conference on the topic: "Sound in Struggle: Audible Resistances." Join us for a day of panels on the place of music in political resistance. Alex E. Chávez, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame, will be delivering his keynote address "Sonic Bridges
The Art of Data conference is an annual gathering of researchers, practitioners, artists, and journalists, to discuss issues related to data, cities, and visualization. It is organized by the Columbia University Libraries in collaboration with the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at the Journalism School. The conference will take place on April 4th from 3pm
Join or Die: The Future of Computational Innovation and the End of the Academy as We Know It Academia presently faces an existential crisis. Tenure-track positions are shrinking. Adjunct positions are on the rise. Scientific and technical fields are losing talent to lucrative industry jobs, while humanities programs graduate a glut of doctorates whose career
Join us on Friday evening for our last Transparency Series seminar featuring Josh Haner, staff photographer and the senior editor for photo technology, in conversation with Meaghan Looram, the Director of Photography at The New York Times. They will discuss previous drone project they've worked on together, and the role of drones in Journalism. As
Drones can provide access to regions that are otherwise impossible to film. The artful, informative deployment of drone photography and its role in journalism is the subject of this Transparency Series event. On Saturday, we will get our hands dirty and take a field trip north of NYC and give students the chance to both
The Brown Institute for Media Innovation and the Delacorte Center for Magazine Journalism bring you this mini-conference of designers, illustrators, and visualizers to talk about the work they do, how
As part of the War On Crime Or War On The Poor? A Conference on Violence & Policing in the Philippines, Latin America, & the U.S. the Brown Institute for
Join award-winning tech reporter Cyrus Farivar for a book launch of Habeas Data: Privacy vs. the Rise of Surveillance Tech. Farivar will be joined by Alex Abdo, Litigation Director for the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, who will respond to the book and moderate conversation on the topic of data and privacy. You
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
At 4:00 p.m. on the second Thursday of each month in the Brown Institute for Media Innovation (2nd Floor, Pulitzer Hall), the Distinguished Lectures in Computational Innovation series will highlight programmers, data scientists, and other practitioners from the private sector who lead cutting-edge technology initiatives such as Python, C++, and the Open Source Initiative. This
The Brown Institute and Tow Center serve as a digital hub at the school, researching and building the future of journalism. Join us in the Brown Institute to meet with
The goal of this series is to introduce students interested in Computer Science, Engineering and Media to what's possible and probable when it comes to media innovation. Speakers from multiple
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 it. Journalists can help to change this. There is a climate story for every beat: Facebook’s new server farms are being built in the Arctic,
Photo by: Mark Mann/WWD Editor-in-Chief of WIRED magazine, Nick Thompson will discuss media trends with Brown Institute Director Maneesh Agrawala. RSVP: BIT.LY/BIMITHOMPSON
