In response to disruptions from COVID19, we have moved our Magic Grant and Climate + Resilience deadlines to May 15, 2020 — we thought you could use a little more time in preparing your applications. This will not, however, change when funds are available to you. If you have any questions, reach out the browninstitute@columbia.edu
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Announcing 2020 Magic Grant Information Sessions
The Brown Institute is pleased to announce Magic Grant Information Sessions taking place at Columbia Journalism School and Stanford Engineering School leading up to the deadline for the 2020 Magic Grant Call for Proposals. If you’re interested in learning more about our Magic Grant offerings, come to one of our upcoming information session where you
Voces Silenciadas, the Podcast of Democracy Fighters, Launches
Today, the Democracy Fighters Magic Grant is proud to announce the launch of Voces Silenciadas (Silenced Voices, in English), the projects podcast. The project can be listened to on the Democracy Fighters website or on Spotify. Each episode of this non-fiction documentary tells the story of a journalist killed in Mexico. Through their life stories, the
Vox’s ‘Today, Explained’ host Sean Rameswaram Visits Stanford
In a packed Cypress Auditorium on Tuesday, February 18, Vox’s ‘Today, Explained’ host Sean Rameswaram sat down with Maneesh Agrawala, Director of the Brown Institute, to discuss his daily podcast and how Vox focuses on connecting with audiences in new, uplifting ways. In their conversation, Rameswaram also discussed the daily podcast ecosystem and the state
Introducing mapping local news project with The Lenfest Institute for Journalism
Major advances in computation have made mapping local news easier. What can we learn from analyzing where stories fall on a map? Last fall, the Brown Institute and The Lenfest Institute for Journalism’s Lenfest Local Lab came together to try to answer some shared questions about the relationship between geography, quality and experience in local
News Products – A New Course Offering at CJS
For Spring 2020, the Brown Institute is excited to announce a new course on News Products which will be open to all MS, MA, and Dual-Degree students! The course will be led by Julia Beizer, Chief Product Officer at Bloomberg and Dalit Shalom, Senior Product Designer at NYT and is a mix of lecture and
Datashare wins best open source project at #OSSPARIS19
The Brown Institute is pleased to announce that Datashare, a Magic Grant project by ICIJ, has been announced as the winner of the best open source project at the Paris Open Source Summit taking place December 10-11, 2019. DataShare allows for valuable knowledge about people and companies to be “sieved” into indexes and shared securely
Actually, it’s about Ethics, AI, and Journalism
We live in a data society. Journalists are becoming data analysts and data curators, and computation is an essential tool for reporting. Data and computation reshape the way a reporter sees the world and composes a story. They also control the operation of the information ecosystem she sends her journalism into, influencing where it finds
Hansen and Institute Alumni Receive Grant to Support New Curricula on Technology Design
Award from the Public Interest Technology University Network is part of $3 million “Network Challenge” to grow the field of public interest technology. Three Columbia professors working at the intersection of human-computer interaction (HCI) have received a grant from the Public Interest Technology University Network (PITUN) to support creation of new curricula on designing computational technology that