Mark Hansen named East Coast director of Brown Institute
Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and Stanford University’s School of Engineering today announced that Mark Hansen has been named East Coast director of the David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation. Hansen will join Stanford engineering professor Bernd Girod, who was the founding director of the Institute and will now serve as West Coast director. Hansen’s appointment is the latest in a series of moves on the part of Columbia Journalism School to expand its digital offerings.

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