On October 8, The Brown Institute at Stanford welcomed Wired magazine Editor-in-Chief Nicholas Thompson who joined Stanford Brown Director, Maneesh Agrawala, for an in-depth conversation about the state of the media and technology. The two discussed the trajectory of Thompson’s journalistic career – from The Washington Monthly, to The New Yorker.com, The Atavist, to Wired and
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Stanford Welcomes Neil Chase, CEO of CalMatters.org
How to Create a Culture of Innovation – especially in a legacy media company? That was the question Neil Chase, CEO of the nonprofit news site CalMatters.org, addressed at Stanford on October 1. Formerly Editor-in-Chief of The San Jose Mercury News, Chase spoke about the local newspaper as an essential utility whose various core functions have
Frameworks for Predicting the Next Big Trends in Tech
Industry-shifting opportunities come along about every five-to-ten years. In this Sept. 24th conversation at Stanford, Ceci Stallsmith, Slack’s Director of Platform Marketing, outlined her methodology for detecting platform shifts before it’s too late to jump on a trend. Given that the media industry is incredibly trend-driven and that the impact of innovation seems
Brown Institute Welcomes Technology Journalist Kara Swisher
On May 2, Brown welcomed technology journalist Kara Swisher, co-founder of Recode and a contributing writer to The New York Times Opinion Section. She previously wrote for The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, and served as executive editor of All Things Digital. Swisher discussed the state of the technology industry and shared her perspectives on media trends
Nicholas Diakopoulos @ Stanford: “Automating the News: How Algorithms are Rewriting the News”
From hidden connections in big data to bots spreading fake news, journalism is increasingly computer generated. Nicholas Diakopoulos, an Assistant Professor at Northwestern University’s School of Communication, and an expert in computer science and media, discussed the present and future of journalism in a world in which news is created by algorithms. Here’s more from The Stanford
“More Than Just a Pretty Picture” – MIT’s Felice Frankel on “Image and Meaning”
On January 30, the Brown Institute at Stanford welcomed Felice Frankel, celebrated science photographer and MIT research scientist. Frankel offered an afternoon masterclass on “Image and Meaning” and in an evening talk discussed her new book “Picturing Science and Engineering” (MIT Press). During the well-attended “Image and Meaning” masterclass, Frankel outlined was for students, faculty
J. Nathan Matias: Innovating in the Public Square
J. Nathan Matias, associate research scholar at Princeton University in psychology, the Center for Information Technology Policy, and sociology, also is the founder of CivilServant, a nonprofit that organizes citizen behavioral science and behavioral consumer protection research for the internet. In this talk, Matias discusses how CivilServant has worked with communities of tens of millions of people on Reddit and Twitter
Slack’s Ceci Stallsmith on “Tech Trends for Media”
Ceci Stallsmith, Slack’s Director of Platform Marketing, says that spotting trends and frameworks are “calculated art, not science.” In 2012, three years before she joined Slack, it was just one of many messaging apps vying for a place in the sun. “Smartphones had become mainstream. It was the moment when business apps took off on iOS
Matter’s Corey Ford kicks off Stanford’s Media Innovation Seminar Series
Corey Ford, Managing Partner of Matter.vc, joined the Brown Institute at Stanford on Tuesday Sept. 25, 2018 to kick off the Institute’s fall Media Innovation seminar. Ford discussed key shifts in the media landscape since founding Matter in 2012. “We are at a pretty interesting time,” said Ford, who pointed out that media institutions are