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SUMMARY:Info Session: Brown Institute Venture Challenge Competition
DESCRIPTION:The Brown Institute at Columbia Journalism School\, in partnership with the Spring ’23 Columbia Venture Competition and Columbia Entrepreneurship\, Innovation\, and Design are pleased to announce a competition for Columbia students\, alumni\, and their collaborators.  \nNow in its second year\, this Journalism Challenge rewards new entrepreneurial ventures in journalism\, media and technology. Perhaps you want to create new kinds of journalism or new kinds of content\, design new forms of participation\, contribute to our understanding of media and society\, or experiment with entirely new ways to communicate. \nJoin us for this info session designed for the Spring ’23 Brown Institute Innovation Challenge in Journalism\, Media\, and Technology where you will hear from the Brown Institute and Columbia Entrepreneurship teams\, hear from past winners\, and meet Justin Hendrix who will facilitate the summer fellowship program at the Brown Institute. \nRegister Here \n\nAbout Summer Delaney — Winner of the 2022 Brown Institute Innovation Challenge \nSummer will be sharing her best tips for competing in the Innovation Challenge. Summer is an award-winning journalist\, content strategist\, and member of the creator community. She is the founder and CEO of CollabWORK\, the first community-empowered hiring platform that leverages online communities and advanced AI algorithms to match talent with top creative jobs. \nOver the past decade\, Summer has grown digital communities and produced award-winning content at CNN\, Yahoo News with Katie Couric\, CBS Interactive and Tribune Media where her videos have received over 500 million views. She has also worked as a consultant and a program manager at Amazon Studios\, News Corp\, Protégé and Wilde. Summer was honored by the New York State Broadcasters Association during the Excellence in Broadcasting Awards for “Outstanding Social Media Personality.” Her work also contributed to Tribune Media winning several digital innovation awards from the Local Media Association\, including best social media strategy and best new digital initiative. \nSummer received her BS from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and her MBA from Columbia Business School. \nAbout CollabWORK \nCollabWORK is revolutionizing the $140B staffing and talent search industry by leveraging online communities and advanced AI algorithms to match talent with top jobs. Unlocking the power of endorsement at scale through access to curated and exclusive networks\, our subscription-based product distributes creative\, media\, and communications jobs to vetted professional communities of qualified candidates. Our proprietary referral and AI-vetting approach alleviates expensive and arduous recruiting processes for companies\, providing the highest quality talent at unparalleled speed and cost efficiency (on average\, referred candidates are hired 55% faster than candidates sourced via traditional job sites). \nAbout Justin Hendrix – CEO and Editor\, Tech Policy Press. Justin will lead the summer program \nJustin is the Founder\, CEO\, and Editor of the Tech Policy Press\, a not-for-profit media and community venture that seeks to advance and influence the public discourse on the relationship between technology and democracy. Justin also currently holds an appointment at New York University as an adjunct Instructor of Integrated Digital Media at the Tandon School of Engineering. \nPrior to his current positions\, Justin was the Executive Director of the New York City Media Lab which connects companies seeking to advance digital media technologies with university capabilities in order to drive entrepreneurship and innovation. Launched by the New York City Economic Development Corporation\, NYU\, and Columbia University\, NYC Media Lab is a public-private partnership encompassing all the universities of NYC and corporate members such as Viacom\, ESPN\, Bloomberg\, MLB Advanced Media\, The Weather Company\, Singtel\, Hearst\, Verizon\, Weather Company\, NBCUniversal and more. The Lab’s goal is to generate fresh thinking that creates value through research\, prototyping\, knowledge transfer\, talent development\, and entrepreneurship.
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SUMMARY:Brown Institute Mixer and Infosession
DESCRIPTION:Drop by and learn about the Brown Institute’s Magic Grants and other programs! \nThe David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation is a joint effort between Stanford’s School of Engineering and Columbia Journalism School. Each year\, the Brown Institute awards close to $1M in grants to help you “follow your passion and experiment with new approaches to storytelling\,” to paraphrase Helen Gurley Brown. \nOur “Magic Grants” are a unique blend of technology and media. Grantees develop new ways to find and tell stories — producing platforms that extend our creativity\, or creating powerful new works of journalism. \n\nA Magic Grant can mean financial support for you and your team for up to a year (fellowships at Columbia\, research positions at Stanford)\nA Magic Grant can provide funding for your project — for production\, prototyping\, or purchasing services\, software or equipment\nA Magic Grant offers access to mentorship and our extensive alumni network\n\nThe Magic Grant program provides year-long funding awards of up to $150\,000 ($300\,000 for teams with members of both the Columbia and Stanford communities and their collaborators). In addition to funding\, grantees have access to a distinguished advisory and mentoring group and an extensive and inspiring alumni network. \nThis information session is an introduction to the Brown Institute. We’ll cover Magic Grants as well as the other programs we are offering this year. \nRegister to Attend
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/brown-institute-mixer-and-infosession/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Info Sessions
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SUMMARY:Brown Institute Mixer and Infosession
DESCRIPTION:Drop by and learn about the Brown Institute’s Magic Grants and other programs! \nThe David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation is a joint effort between Stanford’s School of Engineering and Columbia Journalism School. Each year\, the Brown Institute awards close to $1M in grants to help you “follow your passion and experiment with new approaches to storytelling\,” to paraphrase Helen Gurley Brown. \nOur “Magic Grants” are a unique blend of technology and media. Grantees develop new ways to find and tell stories — producing platforms that extend our creativity\, or creating powerful new works of journalism. \n\nA Magic Grant can mean financial support for you and your team for up to a year (fellowships at Columbia\, research positions at Stanford)\nA Magic Grant can provide funding for your project — for production\, prototyping\, or purchasing services\, software or equipment\nA Magic Grant offers access to mentorship and our extensive alumni network\n\nThe Magic Grant program provides year-long funding awards of up to $150\,000 ($300\,000 for teams with members of both the Columbia and Stanford communities and their collaborators). In addition to funding\, grantees have access to a distinguished advisory and mentoring group and an extensive and inspiring alumni network. \nThis information session is an introduction to the Brown Institute. We’ll cover Magic Grants as well as the other programs we are offering this year.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/brown-institute-mixer-and-infosession-2/
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