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Updates Regarding the Timing of 2020 Grant and Fellowship Applications in Response to COVID-19
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
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
Selfie or Bust: An Introduction to Immersive Storytelling Technology
By Alex Calderwood. Over the weekend, The Brown Institute’s Creative Technologist Ziv Schneider hosted a two-day Immersive Storytelling workshop, introducing a room full of journalists and new media artists to
Coming Together: Insights on Prototyping from our Winter All-Hands
One of the brilliant aspects of the Brown Institute’s design is our quarterly “all hands” meetings. Every few months, the Magic Grantees, fellows and staff from the Stanford and Columbia
Momentum Builds for 2019 Magic Grant ‘Trump Town’
Who exactly is running the federal government? To answer this question, ProPublica launched Trump Town, the only public collection of data on the Trump administration’s current and former appointees. Since
A technology of trust in a trustless information economy: Insights into The News Provenance Project
By Bernat Ivancsics and Bhaskar Ghosh Yesterday, The New York Times’ R&D team, in collaboration with IBM Garage, released the initial findings of The News Provenance Project (NPP), which began
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
Solutions Journalism for Maternal Health Reporting
Nigeria’s estimated 58,000 maternal deaths account for a staggering 19% of the world’s annual total — a statistic from a country that represents just 2.6% of the world’s population. Mobile