The Brown Institute at Columbia University sponsors a variety of fellowship opportunities available to students, alumni, faculty, and professionals. Some of our fellowships are targeted, addressing a particular contemporary challenge
Magic Grant Office Hours at Columbia
The Brown Institute at Columbia is hosting office hours starting on January 31, 2019 to discuss our magic grant opportunities. These one-on-one sessions allow you to sit down with a
Mapping and Visual Language Workshops
Mapping Module 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
Distributed Media Labs, with Dave Gehring and Sam Parnell
Dave Gehring and Sam Parnell, CEO and CTO of Distributed Media Labs, explain how they hope to give publishers the opportunity to grow audience and deepen engagement across the open
Jeff Larson introduces The Markup
Jeff Larson, Managing Editor of The Markup, explains how this new nonprofit news start-up plans to investigate how powerful institutions are using technology in ways that impact people and society.
Tonight at Brown at Columbia! Washington Post & NPR Discuss Voice Interfaces for Journalism
Tonight’s the night! We have our second Transparency Series event, this time on Voice User Interfaces (VUIs). VUIs also go by the more familiar names “personal assistants” or “smart speakers”
The NYT’s Kevin Quealy on Innovating with Data & Graphics
Kevin Quealy discusses how The New York Times thinks about data visualization and graphics. Quealy is the Deputy Editor at The Upshot, the Times’s site on politics, economics, and everyday life.
‘Hacking Voter Suppression’ Project Begins
For the 2018-19 Magic Grant Season, the Brown Institute at Columbia is funding Hacking Voter Suppression, a project by Columbia Journalism School Professor June Cross and Charlotte Braithwaite, a Theater
Twitch 4 News? The Washington Post’s Phoebe Connelly tells us more
Washington Post Deputy Video Editor Phoebe Connelly joined Twitch’s Cody Conners to explain how the paper is using the live- streaming platform for news. Testing the concept of a “Post