Columbia J-School 'Magic Grant' Recipients Highlight Journalism as Storytelling

On the Stanford side, one of the four ventures chosen is Gistraker, a Web application that looks at possible media bias by generating visual summaries of how different outlets are covering the same story. Meanwhile, at Columbia, where four projects were also selected, a student in the documentary film program is going use the money to expand his look at how the drag renaissance in Bushwick, Brooklyn is making clever use of social media.