Have journalists ever been under pressure from so many directions and how can they combat those pressures? This session looks at the power of propaganda machines to influence, or try to influence, the...

Electionland was a unique collaborative project to track and cover voting problems during the 2016 US elections across the whole country and in real-time. It was also the largest social newsgathering ...

More than 200 million people got online for the first time in 2016. But in many cases, the type of internet that they accessed was already controlled and censored by their governments or internet serv...

WordPress empowers more than 27% of the web. From the tiniest personal blog to the largest media website, its development is fully executed by a community effort. The software is released under the Ge...

Two Italians referred to as the “Occhionero brothers” have been arrested and accused of using malware, codenamed "EyePyramid", and a carefully-prepared spear-phishing scheme to spy on high-profile...

Ever since Wikileaks captured the headlines and the imagination of journalists all over the world with its shocking Collateral Murder video, large leaks of data, often obtained through hacking, have b...

ijf17talk by Adam Mosseri. Moderator Jeff Jarvis. Adam Mosseri, VP of News Feed at Facebook, will share how his team thinks about improving News Feed so people see personally relevant stories every t...

Who has the best food system in the world? How can we minimize the environmental impact of agriculture? Why are some countries simultaneously experiencing undernutrition and obesity, and how effective...

Following the disappearance, torture and murder of Italian Cambridge University PhD student Giulio Regeni in Cairo in January 2016, the Italian weekly L'Espresso created the web platform RegeniLeaks�...

From conflicts in the Middle East to the drama of the smuggling of migrants and the war in Syria, it is especially in times of crisis scenarios that the work of foreign correspondents is so crucial. P...