The Brown Institute is pleased to announce that our Impact Grant ‘Documenting COVID-19‘ has won first place in the 2022 National Headliners Awards for their “Uncounted: The hidden death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic” investigation. This ongoing collaboration with MuckRock and USA Today found that death certificates, long prone to error, have gotten worse during
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They are not alone: lessons for the search of disappeared people in Mexico
Our 2021 – 2022 Magic Grant No están solas: Bridging the search for the disappeared in Mexico has published the first in a series of articles documenting their findings. This piece details the team’s process in interviewing “buscadoras” – groups of women who travel Mexico’s countryside searching for their disappeared family members. As Mónica Trigos
‘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 competition Sigma Awards. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the Documenting COVID-19 project, a magic grant led by Derek Kravitz in partnership with MuckRock, have
Entrepreneurship Resources for the Upcoming Innovation Challenge
Interested in applying to the Brown Institute Innovation Challenge in Journalism, Media, and Technology? We have a variety of resources to get you ready for the competition. If you have any questions about the competition, please reach out to Christopher McGarry (cm3014@columbia.edu) or the Brown Institute staff (browninstitute@columbia.edu). Pitch Practice Workshops Thu, Feb 17th from
COVID-19′s hidden cost: Georgia taxpayers pay more for public-debt financing
Our 2020 – 2021 Magic Grant Covid Financial Crisis has published its third article on the financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Georgia’s economy. This time, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution team analyzed how the pandemic has increased the financial cost of borrowing money for cities, counties, school districts, and hospitals, creating a sort of “COVID
‘We’re Not Alone’: Families Share How They’re Coping With Grief in COVID’s Long Wake
Missing Them, a 2021-22 Magic Grant and collaboration between the Brown Institute for Media Innovation, THE CITY, and the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, reached back to more than 1,000 people who submitted stories to their online obituaries page and interviewed dozens of them on what’s helping them cope with losing loved ones.
When Denver Lost Its Mind Over Youth Crime
The 2020-21 Magic Grant Wolf Pack has published its second piece — a long-read analyzing the media coverage of Denver’s so-called “summer of violence”. The article documents how the city’s local media stoked fear over a crime wave that wasn’t, and in the process supercharged the states criminal justice system with disastrous consequences for its
Magic Grant ‘Documenting COVID-19’ Receives 2021 Sunshine Award from the Society of Professional Journalists
The Brown Institute is pleased to announce our Magic Grant project ‘Documenting COVID-19‘ has received the 2021 Sunshine Award from the Society of Professional Journalists. This is the project’s fourth major prize, following similar awards from The First Amendment Coalition, the Brechner Center for Freedom of Information, and the Los Angeles Press Club’s Charles Rappleye
Big Local News project leads to front page stories at EdSource and the New York Times
The Big Local News project, in partnership with OpenNews, The New York Times, EdSource, the Colorado News Collaborative, and Tom Dee from the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University, recently shared the fruits of their labor — the collection and analysis of school enrollment loss at the school and grade level due to Covid-19. Major