On January 31st, 2017, The Brown Institute at Columbia Journalism School will welcome Dick Penny, director of the Watershed in Bristol. The Watershed offers lively public programs in film, media, the arts and
Brown Institute Converges for Base Camp at Stanford
The Brown Institute was founded on the promise that by bringing together students from our two campuses, Stanford and Columbia, we might be able to change the world, but we’d
Visual Genome: Connecting Language and Vision Using Crowdsourced Dense Image Annotations
An overview of the data needed to move from perceptual awareness to cognitive understanding of images. We present a dataset of images densely annotated with numerous region descriptions, objects, attributes,
Ellen Weinstein on Illustration
The Brown Institute is delighted to welcome back Ellen Weinstein, a well-known illustrator whose work has appeared in outlets like The New York Times, The Village Voice, Nautilus and The
Brown Welcomes BBC News to Stanford
The Brown Institute is excited to host BBC News Executives Gavin Allen, Morwen Williams, Trushar Barot and Ros Atkins to campus this week. On Tuesday, the BBC team met with reporters
Fall Speaker Series at Stanford, Pondering the Locus of Media
In November, Brown@Stanford hosted the first two speakers in its year-long series that examines how innovation is alterating the face of public media and platforms. On November 1, Internet Archive’s
Transparency Series on Illustration – Dec 2 & 3
Illustration is the next topic in our Transparency Series! Journalistic outlets like The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Atlantic and Nautilus use illustration as an important part of
Brown Brings Journalism Collaboration to MozFest
Elections, hacks, leaks and a potentially compromised position of net neutrality mean that digital rights will be a major battleground of the next decade, and maybe decades to come. As government
Transparency Series: Virtual Reality
The next Transparency Series event is on the use of Virtual Reality (VR) in journalism. With the recent explosion of VR – specifically 360-degree video– journalistic outlets are hungry for quality