It is with profound sorrow that we say goodbye to Marco Antonio Castro Cosío, a visionary collaborator and a cherished friend of our research institute. In the realms of art,
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Join us on April 21 for ‘Computing &’
The Vagelos Computational Science Center (CSC) at Barnard College in partnership with The Brown Institute at Columbia Journalism School welcome you to Computing &, a series of panels exploring the
Missing Them Exhibits at Photoville
To mark the 3rd anniversary of COVID in New York City, the MISSING THEM project is partnering with Photoville to bring stories and obits from our project to community spaces
After six months, Data Fixers achieves 100 mentions and new cross-border investigations
Data Fixers, a data-driven journalistic project sponsored by The Brown Institute for Media Innovation, has recently published two major investigative projects and garnered 100 citations and publications in media outlets
Institute Fellows making waves with Atlos Project
The Brown Institute is pleased to announce that 2022-2023 fellows Noah Schechter and Miles McCain have received top innovation awards from both the Westly Foundation and IE University’s Tech4Democracy initiative
Topography Seed Grant Presents at Transmediale
Over the first week of February, the Topography project, a seed grant supported in part by the Brown Institute, exhibited Missile Command, an excerpt from the larger multi-format project. Missile Command
‘Documenting COVID-19’ Project Wins First Place in National Headliners Awards
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
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
‘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