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By : mkrisch April 5, 2022

MuckRock and the Documenting COVID-19 project are releasing new searchable CDC death data at the county level

Over the past two years, 165,000 more Americans have died of natural causes, such as diabetes and hypertensive heart disease, than historical norms would lead researchers to expect. A smaller

By : mkrisch March 30, 2022March 31, 2022

Last Minute Resources for Magic Grant Applicants

Magic Grant applications are due April 8! Are you interested in applying but still have lingering questions about an idea or some part of the application? Meet with members of the Brown

By : mkrisch March 22, 2022

‘Uncounted’ shortlisted for best data project by the Sigma Awards

Uncounted, an ongoing investigation into uncounted and undercounted COVID-19 and other deaths due to death certificate errors, has been shortlisted as one of the best data projects by the international

By : Mark Hansen March 19, 2022May 5, 2022

Announcing the Computation+Journalism Conference, June 9/10/11 2022

Conference Site The Computation+Journalism conference is returning to Columbia University in June of 2022! It will be a hybrid event, taking place both in-person in Pulitzer Hall as well as

By : Mark Hansen March 8, 2022

Brown’s Local News Lab is hiring a Software Engineer (Backend or Machine Learning)

The Local News Lab is a small team working to build open-source data products to help support local and community newsrooms and their businesses. Our core product is an article recommendation

We Are Hiring, Creative Technologists Apply!

The Brown Institute at Columbia Journalism School is seeking an Associate Research Scholar — someone with a history of “creative research” that expands on traditional forms of journalism and media production, but who also wants to support and inspire new entrepreneurs working at the intersection of tech and media. The person will be hired as an “Impact Fellow” of the …