On October 8, The Brown Institute at Stanford welcomed Wired magazine Editor-in-Chief Nicholas Thompson who joined Stanford Brown Director, Maneesh Agrawala, for an in-depth conversation about the state of the media and technology. The two discussed the trajectory of Thompson’s journalistic career – from The Washington Monthly, to The New Yorker.com, The Atavist, to Wired and
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Stanford Welcomes Neil Chase, CEO of CalMatters.org
How to Create a Culture of Innovation – especially in a legacy media company? That was the question Neil Chase, CEO of the nonprofit news site CalMatters.org, addressed at Stanford on October 1. Formerly Editor-in-Chief of The San Jose Mercury News, Chase spoke about the local newspaper as an essential utility whose various core functions have
2018-2019 SPEAKER SERIES: FELICE FRANKEL
SCIENCE PHOTOGRAPHER & MIT RESEARCH SCIENTIST On January 30, the Brown Institute welcomes celebrated science photographer and MIT Research Scientist Felice Frankel. She will offer a masterclass on “Image and Meaning” and discuss her new book “Picturing Science and Engineering” (MIT Press) in which she offers a guide for creating science images that are both
Podcast Icon Dan Carlin visits Brown at Stanford
The first speaker in Media Innovators Speakers series at Stanford University for the 2017-2018 Academic Year, Dan Carlin, is widely known for his long time, highly popular podcasts, Hardcore History and Common Sense. In his visit to the Brown Institute at Stanford on October 11, 2017, he also shared with the audience how he went from being a local
Stanford kicks off 2016-2017 Speaker Series
Dan Carlin coming October 11, Richard Gingras on November 14 Podcast legend Dan Carlin will visit the Brown Institute at Stanford on October 11 at 6:30 PM, in the first of the 2016-2017 Media Innovators Speaker Series. The host of the hugely popular Hardcore History and Common Sense podcasts will discuss the state of platform,