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
Rethinking Tech, Ethics, and Democracy with MIT Tech Review’s Gideon Lichfield
In this conversation, Gideon Lichfield, Editor-in-Chief is the MIT Technology Review, explores issues raised in the Review’s fall issue: “Technology is threatening our democracy: How do we save it?” Lichfield
Whither VR? Kate Parsons and Ben Vance
Video artist Kate Parsons and VR veteran Ben Vance talk about innovations in VR and their work with FLOAT, a collaborative entity that focuses on the intersection of art, interactivity,
NYT & FiveThirtyEight Talk Election Polls at Brown
On October 12 & 13, the Brown Institute kicked off its 2018-2019 Transparency Series with a deep dive into polling and election polls. The event commenced with a seminar by
To teach people about climate change, feed them journalism
We are pleased to initiate a new series of articles from the Brown Institute at the Columbia Journalism Review. Our first offering is about a dinner we hosted with the
Upcoming event on the Blockchain in Journalism
The Brown Institute and the Tow Center have collaborated on an event for students, reporters, editors, scholars, and entrepreneurs about the current state of blockchain technology and how it can