In 2015, the Brown Institute funded the Nueva Nación team in Panama to create the country’s first truly accessible public data platform, El Tabulario, and now they’re finally ready to
The Stanford Daily: Innovative Media Organizations Recognized
The Stanford Daily highlighted the latest round of Magic Grant recipients in a front-page article on Tuesday. Their article described the 11 projects that Brown has chosen to fund this
Enigma/Brown Institute Fellowship Announced
The Brown Institute for Media Innovation and Enigma, a data start-up known for its civic-minded projects, named Rashida Kamal as the 2017 Data Journalism Fellow. The fellowship gives recipients the choice
2017-18 Magic Grants Announced
The Brown Institute for Media Innovation, a collaboration between Columbia Journalism School and Stanford University’s School of Engineering, has awarded its 2017-18 Magic Grants to 11 teams of innovators todevelop
Data Viz @ Brown – Manuel Lima, Mona Chalabi, Kenan Davis
On Friday May 5 and Saturday May 6, the Brown Institute will host its final Transparency Series events — this time we’re presenting data visualization! Join Manuel Lima on May
Research Speed Dating
The Brown Institute and the Institute for Data Sciences and Engineering hosted a Speed Dating event to promote inter-disciplinary collaboration. On the east side of the table we have architecture,
Media Mashed
Paul “DJ Spooky” Miller mashed up media and music in a free-flowing performance/talk at Stanford April 13. Miller explored the intersection of hip hop and high tech, arguing that new forms
DJ Spooky heading to Stanford as Brown Innovator-in-Residence
Brown@Stanford welcomes Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky, for a week-long residence, starting April 10. Together with Stanford Vice Provost for Teaching & Learning, the Stanford Institute for Diversity in
Transparency 2.0: Experiments in Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Over the weekend, the Brown Institute hosted an experiment in interdisciplinary collaboration. On Saturday, March 25, we gathered 24 journalism students and 7 PhD students from Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Sciences