News

August 2021

The Brown Institute announces its 2021-2022 Magic Grants

The Brown Institute for Media Innovation, a collaboration between Columbia Journalism School and Stanford University’s School of Engineering, is pleased to announce its 2021-2022 Magic Grant recipients.

June 2021

How Stanford students helped with a Pulitzer Prize-winning project

When then-Stanford student Jackie Botts got to help Reuters staff as part of her Stanford journalism class, little did she know it would culminate into Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage.

March 2021

Marion Lewenstein, Stanford professor of communication (teaching), emerita, has died at 93

During her Stanford career, pioneering journalist and journalism teacher Marion Lewenstein was awarded a Dinkelspiel Award for Outstanding Service to Undergraduate Education and served as academic secretary of the Faculty Senate.

December 2020

JSK and Big Local News award $191,500 worldwide to data journalism projects

These JSK-Big Local News Data Reporting Grants are being funded with support from the Google News Initiative.

August 2020

A new global COVID-19 map for journalists

Stanford University’s Big Local News and Pitch Interactive—with support from the Google News Initiative— have launched the COVID-19 Global Case Mapper, which makes it possible for journalists anywhere in the world to embed up-to-date visualizations of the pandemic on their sites for readers.

July 2020

Journalism professor Janine Zacharia reviews ‘Donald Trump and His Assault on Truth’

One of the most consequential unknowns is whether future presidents will believe they can lie with impunity, or if Donald Trump’s relentless mendacity will be an anomaly.

“Donald Trump and His Assault on Truth: The President’s Falsehoods, Misleading Claims and Flat-Out Lies” encapsulates the duplicity we’ve been subjected to these past 3½ years in a […]

April 2020

Big Local News, Pitch Interactive Launch COVID-19 Case Mapper

Stanford University’s Big Local News and Pitch Interactive—with support from the Google News Initiative—created the COVID-19 Case Mapper to make it possible for local journalists and others to easily embed up-to-date coronavirus map visualizations on their websites. The map offers state and county views, with a simple interface for embedding on a site.

March 2020

Journalists must understand provenance, motivation when reporting disinformation, Stanford researchers urge

Two Stanford scholars discuss strategies for reporters and editors to write about disinformation, leaked material and propaganda in a responsible and timely way.

Rebele Symposium: Meet the Press

The 2020 Rebele Symposium – held the day after Super Tuesday – focused on swing-state coverage of the presidential election and featured reporters from Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Florida.

February 2020

Stanford researchers discuss journalism and democracy in lead up to Super Tuesday

In a complex news environment, Stanford professors urge voters to be careful consumers of political information and to think hard about where information comes from and how it reaches them.