AuthorMark Hansen

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 Aspen Institute and the Asia Society on climate change. There’s a story behind every ingredient that goes into our meals—each plant or animal we consume

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 be applied to journalism. For practitioners in media, Blockchain is in vogue today as a potential solution to the industry’s every-day problems and tasks, such

At the end of September, the Brown Institute, along with the Heyman Center, SIPA, and the Libraries, are honored to announce a week of events featuring Cory Doctorow, blogger, journalist and science fiction writer. The week includes an intimate conversation with Dennis Tenen about science fiction and contemporary authorship, a talk about digital copyright and

The “Charleston Reconstructed” team is in Charleston interviewing community members and mapping Confederate monuments through photogrammetry with a drone. The team consists of Columbia Documentary Journalism student Robert Tokanel, Stanford Computer Scientist Kyle Qian, and Stanford undergraduates Khoi Le and Hope Schroeder. The team is looking to “digitally transform public spaces” in Charleston using augmented

In June, the Brown Institute and the UN-DESA’s Statistics Division announced a call for projects pairing journalistic outlets and official statistics offices to better inform the public. In some ways, it was our approach to combatting misinformation — figure out ways to provide “facts where opinions are formed,” to quote the OECD. We had an

On September 6, from 9am-5pm, the Brown Institute is proud to host a day devoted to public data. It is designed for students in journalism, statistics and data science — essentially anyone who has an interest in understanding their neighborhoods, their cities, their state and even the nation through data. Throughout the day, students will

The Brown Institute for Media Innovation, a collaboration between Columbia Journalism School and the Stanford University’s School of Engineering, is pleased to announce its 2018-2019 Magic Grants. Each year, the Brown Institute awards close to $1M in funding to foster new tools and modes of expression, and to create stories that escape the bounds of