Measuring Crime: Behind the Statistics

Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

Abstract: In 1915, the Chicago City Council asked statistician Edith Abbott to report “upon the frequency of murder, assault, burglary, robbery, theft and like crimes in Chicago." Her report, drawing

Brown Institute Welcomes Technology Journalist Kara Swisher

McCaw Hall, Arrillaga Alumni Center 326 Galvez Street, Stanford, CA, United States

Brown welcomes technology journalist Kara Swisher, co-founder of Recode and a contributing writer to The New York Times Opinion Section. She previously wrote for The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, and served as co-executive editor of All Things Digital.

A Science-Media Meetup for Climate Stories With Impact

Brown Institute at Pulitzer Hall (Journalism School) at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

The climate crisis poses a unique challenge to journalism. It touches every part of society, from politics and business to sports and culture, yet in many situations, we barely mention

Lanzamiento de Democracy Fighters

Casa Refugio Citlaltepetl Citlaltépetl 25, Hipódromo Condesa, Ciudad de México, Mexico City, Mexico

El Brown Institute for Media Innovation, el Comité de Protección a Periodistas, Artículo 19, y Casa Refugio Citlaltépetl cordialmente te invitan al lanzamiento de Democracy Fighters, un archivo viviente. Esta

How Charts Lie – A Talk by Alberto Cairo

Lecture Hall, Pulitzer Hall 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at? Charts, infographics, and diagrams are ubiquitous. They are useful because they can reveal patterns and trends hidden behind the numbers we encounter in our lives. Good charts make us smarter—if we know how to

Brown Speaker Series featuring Sean Rameswaram, Host of Vox’s Today, Explained

Cypress Auditorium, Allen Extension 420 Via Palou Mall, Stanford, CA, United States

The Brown Institute is excited to welcome Sean Rameswaram, host of Today, Explained, Vox’s daily explainer podcast. As advertised by Vox, Today, Explained is your all killer, no filler, Monday to Friday news. Sean, a veteran of the podcast space, will discuss Vox’s novel approach to their daily show and will join Brown Institute Director

The Green New Deal: Shaping A Public Imagination with Kim Stanley Robinson

Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

Can climate fiction help overcome political friction? When climate change is the focus of both fiction and nonfiction, dystopia tends to rule. It’s not hard to see why, given that 30 years of efforts to push past fossil fuels have barely shifted the global energy mix and impacts on humans and nature mount as vulnerable

Local Time: A Challenge for Visualization with Johanna Drucker, UCLA

Zoom Meeting

Each year, the Brown Institute sponsors talks that explore the intersection between media and technology. This year we have three virtual presentations lined up, each challenging us to think about data and computation in new ways. Each talk is by researchers outside of journalism, and yet we have a great deal to learn from their

Data Feminism with Catherine D’Ignazio, MIT and Lauren Klein, Emory University

Zoom Meeting

Each year, the Brown Institute sponsors talks that explore the intersection between media and technology. This year we have three virtual presentations lined up, each challenging us to think about data and computation in new ways. Each talk is by researchers outside of journalism, and yet we have a great deal to learn from their

Anger + Hope – The founding of NPR and lessons for the future of public media

Virtual

RSVP here - Streaming at ohyay.co/s/npr Bill Siemering is a radio visionary. Sixty years ago, Siemering was hired to transform WBFO from a student-run college radio club into a professional station. Because of the experiments in radio that he led at WBFO throughout the 1960s, Siemering was invited to serve on the first board of

Women in Mathematics and Statistics

Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

Finding Strength in the Numbers: Growing Up Stories The Columbia-Barnard Mathematics Departments and the Columbia Statistics Department are proud to invite you to our inaugural Women in Mathematics and Statistics (WiMS) presentation Finding Strength in the Numbers: Growing Up Stories. Our speakers will share their STEM journey and how they are making their mark in

Rethinking Crime Reporting

Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

The crime beat has long been leveraged by American newsrooms to drive traffic, generate revenue, and fulfill the duty of informing the public. While the familiar narrative of perpetrators committing

Exploring AI Threats to Electoral Integrity

Livestream and SIPA

2024 will be a landmark election year in at least two ways. First, more than a quarter of the countries in the world, representing a third of global population, and

Queer Data: Who Counts?

Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

Kevin Guyan will join CJS for a talk on "Queer Data". Guyan, soon to be a Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, has written extensively on data collection and LGBTQ communities. The first step

Human Rights Reporting: A Focus on Journalism and AI

Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

Join us for this special panel which will focus on global reporting on human rights, as defined by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, within the evolving landscape of AI

AI, Creativity, Media, and Our Shared Commons (Postponed until the Fall!)

Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

In just 2023, new advances in generative AI uprooted our collective understanding of the knowledge and cultural commons we share online. It challenged assumptions of creativity and copyright ownership, data

Abortion in Data and in Reporting

Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

Inspired by Barnard College’s launch of Trigger Planting 2.0, an exhibition that explores the impact of the 2022 Dobbs vs. Jackson Supreme Court decision on abortion access, this event convenes