Last year in Perugia, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) led an interactive panel on the use of sexual violence to silence women journalists. The discussion helped to scope the range of ways t...
Digitalization is not new, but especially for small media organizations, most of them regional ones, digital transformation is a long and stony path. It’s difficult on many levels: publishers who w...
Conversational interfaces (texting, WhatsApp, even Twitter DMs) are where news readers spend much of their day, but newsrooms have been slow to adapt news delivery and engagement for those spaces, pri...
In the past fifteen years, digital technologies—from the Internet to the Internet of things—have dramatically reshaped the operations of nearly every industry on earth and the exercising of indivi...
The business of investigative journalism: best practices for sustainable newsrooms
Making newsrooms sustainable is a challenge for everyone in the media today. No matter how brilliant one’s journalism, it won’t be sustainable unless it’s backed by a business plan that takes in...
Media capture constitutes one of the gravest and most intractable new threats to independent journalism around the world. In country after country, collusion between governments and wealthy media owne...
James Ball, author of Post-Truth: How Bullshit Conquered The World, commissioner of the London School of Economics' Truth, Trust and Technology report, and journalist covering online and Russian disin...
How we can fight the political undermining of the media and promote freedom of expression
Globally, media is in crisis: in addition to public mistrust and eroding revenue models, we are witnessing overt threats and attacks against media, often by government actors or vested interests. Th...
In the current news ecosystem, filter bubbles, echo chambers, misinformation and viralized fake news are rampant. We will address how artificial intelligence (AI) could, on the one hand, help journali...
How the bubble consumed the internet, a timeline of the collapse, key lessons, and the promising road ahead for great journalism. In this session Mario Vasilescu will: > Explain how the modern in...