A slew of accusations has hit NGOs recently, especially those saving lives in the Mediterranean; "sea taxis", "the party is over", "stop the business of immigration", "stop invasion", "no to ethnic su...

Paywalls are the antithesis of social media. In a medium where free news feeds are the expectation, we have to encourage audiences who stumble upon our content to go the extra mile - to input informat...

It’s been a tough year for media start-ups. Several high-profile companies have failed, while many others are scrambling to cut costs, trim staff and pull back on their aspirations as they attempt t...

What's your podcast strategy? How publishers and independent creators are navigating media's fastest growing ecosystem. The current podcast industry had its big bang moment in 2014, the year that Ser...

Let’s save our children from misinformation and misleading content. How might we reshape media literacy - using visual tools, VR, AR, Voice Assistants - to interact with new generations, keep them ...

A deadly mix of corruption, state capture and organised crime has killed journalists Daphne Caruana Galizia in Malta, Jan Kuciak in Slovakia and Javier Ortega and Paul Rivas in Colombia. Three differe...

Our societies feel more fragmented than ever and it’s not just tabloids who seem to be stoking the flames of discord and division. In the wake of the Christchurch terror attack, the UK's head of cou...

The ethical and social impact of technology, and the role of journalists and media in it. The session will consider what the social impacts and ethical implications are of new technologies such as ar...

Data journalism might seem still a fancy, expensive business that only big national media outlets like The New York Times or The Economist can afford. But very often data at local level is widely avai...

Facing the challenges of a datafied society: how journalist, activists and hackers can make sense of datafication. The contemporary datafied society is hybrid in nature: information technology, polic...