Programme 2023

wednesday 19

10:30 - 11:30
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

2023 European year of skills: a question of method

12:00 - 13:00
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Google News Initiative: new tools to find and verify news stories

14:00 - 14:50
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

AI and disinformation

15:00 - 16:00
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

How to navigate in the disinformation tempest

16:00 - 17:30
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

Rural development: the RuralCiak Award

16:15 - 17:00
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Righting the world: the life, trial and legacy of Aaron Swartz

17:15 - 18:15
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Cyberwar between Russia and Ukraine

18:00 - 19:00
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

How the media treats the climate crisis: the influence of polluting companies

19:30 - 20:30
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

The final trip (towards the end of life)

thursday 20

09:30 - 09:55
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Safety culture 101: for newsrooms and journalists

10:00 - 10:50
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

Collaborative investigations: risk and rewards

10:00 - 10:50
Sala Brugnoli, Palazzo Cesaroni

Counting the dead: lessons from the pandemic for confronting climate change

10:00 - 10:50
Sala delle Colonne, Palazzo Graziani

Towards an early warning system for online violence: how to monitor digital attacks on women journalists and prevent escalation

10:00 - 10:50
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Is messaging the future of news?

10:00 - 18:30
Hotel La Rosetta

Journalist safety clinics

10:00 - 10:25
Sala Priori, Hotel Brufani

Audience user needs at the heart of your editorial strategy

11:00 - 11:50
Sala Priori, Hotel Brufani

Interactive self-care for women and non-binary journalists

11:00 - 11:50
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Blended funding: a useful innovation to fund independent journalism?

11:00 - 11:50
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

Investigating the crimes of war

11:00 - 11:50
Sala della Vaccara, Palazzo dei Priori

The growth of hybrid media in authoritarian countries

11:00 - 11:25
Sala Brugnoli, Palazzo Cesaroni

How we built it: the story of a for-profit, values-driven network with diversified revenues

11:00 - 11:50
Auditorium San Francesco al Prato

Lawfare: weaponisation of the law against journalists, and fighting back

11:00 - 11:50
Sala delle Colonne, Palazzo Graziani

Generative AI in the newsroom

11:30 - 11:55
Sala Brugnoli, Palazzo Cesaroni

The New European: will print kill digital?

12:00 - 12:50
Sala della Vaccara, Palazzo dei Priori

How to truly monetise independent journalism’s value for society?

12:00 - 12:50
Auditorium San Francesco al Prato

Getting ahead of the bad guys: what journalists need to know to keep up with organized crime’s 2023 playbook

12:00 - 12:50
Sala delle Colonne, Palazzo Graziani

How to support the Ukrainian media system in the long run

12:00 - 12:50
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

Transparency journalism: is it the key to public trust?

12:00 - 13:00
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

How I broke the story: sharing gender reporting best practice

12:00 - 12:50
Sala Priori, Hotel Brufani

Innovations in data journalism: liberating data, wrangling big data, visual storytelling and more

12:00 - 12:50
Sala Brugnoli, Palazzo Cesaroni

The Audio Renaissance: the audience in waiting

14:00 - 14:50
Sala della Vaccara, Palazzo dei Priori

Membership models: all you need to know about running a member-centric newsroom

14:00 - 14:50
Sala delle Colonne, Palazzo Graziani

Investigating social media companies from the inside and out

14:00 - 14:50
Sala Priori, Hotel Brufani

Tracking sanctions: experiences from the blurry field of sanctions against Russia

14:00 - 14:50
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Documenting and memorializing war crimes in real-time

14:00 - 14:50
Sala Brugnoli, Palazzo Cesaroni

The Council for European Public Space presents new perspectives for a European public sphere: A European Perspective (EBU) and Displ.eu

14:00 - 14:50
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

Gender, leadership and surviving authoritarian regimes and cultures: women leading independent Arab media speak up

15:00 - 15:50
Sala della Vaccara, Palazzo dei Priori

Solutions journalism: a means to achieve equity and inclusion

15:00 - 15:50
Sala delle Colonne, Palazzo Graziani

Documenting Ukraine’s war from afar: how to use open-source intelligence to combat propaganda and expose wrongdoing

15:00 - 15:50
Sala Priori, Hotel Brufani

Find your brand voice on TikTok

15:00 - 15:50
Auditorium San Francesco al Prato

To go public or not go public? Behind a whistleblower’s personal decision process

15:00 - 15:50
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Telling the stories of refugees and migrants: ethical and emotional challenges

15:00 - 15:50
Sala Brugnoli, Palazzo Cesaroni

Supporting small newsrooms learn and experiment with AI

15:00 - 15:25
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

I wish I had known then…

15:35 - 16:00
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

Yemen: from the forgotten to the untold war

16:00 - 16:50
Sala Brugnoli, Palazzo Cesaroni

Two to tango: a closer look at the relationship between independent investigative teams and legacy media

16:00 - 16:50
Sala delle Colonne, Palazzo Graziani

Climate journalism that works: what newsrooms need to know to have an impact

16:00 - 16:50
Sala Priori, Hotel Brufani

The Gazprom lobby: tracking the European energy dependency of Russia

16:00 - 16:50
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

How impactful journalism supports a successful business model

16:00 - 16:50
Auditorium San Francesco al Prato

How the far right is going global

16:00 - 16:50
Sala della Vaccara, Palazzo dei Priori

Remember Aleppo!

17:00 - 17:50
Sala delle Colonne, Palazzo Graziani

Suspicion machines: investigating fraud prediction algorithms

17:00 - 17:50
Auditorium San Francesco al Prato

The Kyiv Independent: a Ukrainian media startup’s unprecedented success during war

17:00 - 17:50
Sala della Vaccara, Palazzo dei Priori

Data journalism: skills, tools and trends

17:00 - 18:00
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

Legal threats hampering media freedom

17:00 - 17:50
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Reporting on solutions to the world’s most pressing problems

17:00 - 18:00
Sala Brugnoli, Palazzo Cesaroni

How including the missing perspectives of women of all colours in news can revitalise the news industry

18:15 - 19:30
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

The Putin method and repression of dissent in Russia

18:15 - 19:15
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Transgender people in the media: the case of Valentina Petrillo

19:30 - 20:30
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Israel-Palestine: history at a reckoning

21:00 - 22:00
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

Migrants at home

friday 21

06:00 - 07:30
Reception, Hotel Brufani

Sunrise film walk

10:00 - 10:50
Sala Brugnoli, Palazzo Cesaroni

Constructive female founders

10:00 - 10:50
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

The rise of populism and autocratism: how should journalists respond?

10:00 - 10:50
Sala delle Colonne, Palazzo Graziani

TikTok and the news: how can publishers join the party?

10:00 - 10:50
Sala Priori, Hotel Brufani

Satellite imagery for crisis reporting

10:00 - 18:30
Hotel La Rosetta

Journalist safety clinics

10:00 - 10:50
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Where are the working-class journalists?

10:00 - 10:50
Sala della Vaccara, Palazzo dei Priori

Decolonizing journalism: global coverage from a local perspective

11:00 - 11:50
Auditorium San Francesco al Prato

Radical sharing: 15 years of cross-border collaborative journalism

11:00 - 11:50
Sala della Vaccara, Palazzo dei Priori

Climate reporting literacy: what journalists need to learn and communities want to know

11:00 - 11:50
Sala Brugnoli, Palazzo Cesaroni

How elevating diverse voices and perspectives drives impact in global development and human rights reporting

11:00 - 11:50
Sala Priori, Hotel Brufani

YouTube News Shorts workshop

11:00 - 11:50
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Ambitious data journalism under pressure: doing big work in small newsrooms

11:00 - 11:50
Sala delle Colonne, Palazzo Graziani

Ukraine Europe: towards a common defence and security policy

11:00 - 11:50
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

A new class of media CEOs

12:00 - 12:50
Sala Brugnoli, Palazzo Cesaroni

Why trust is urgent: the toxic cocktail of disinfo and hate

12:00 - 12:50
Auditorium San Francesco al Prato

Covering Mariupol

12:00 - 12:25
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

The value of independent journalism in a polarized world

12:00 - 12:50
Sala della Vaccara, Palazzo dei Priori

Hard access stories: why audio journalism is the solution

12:00 - 12:50
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Underreporting and misreporting of queer lives in the Global South media

12:00 - 12:50
Sala Priori, Hotel Brufani

Staying sane and healthy as a journalist in an always-on culture

12:15 - 13:15
Sala delle Colonne, Palazzo Graziani

Stories on Umbria International Journalism Award 

12:35 - 13:00
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

Artist on the frontlines: a conversation with artist and writer Molly Crabapple

14:00 - 14:50
Sala Brugnoli, Palazzo Cesaroni

Is anyone listening? Solutions and strategies to support the mental health of journalists under online attack

14:00 - 14:50
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Funding with purpose: a dialogue with funders on how to provide meaningful support

14:00 - 14:50
Sala della Vaccara, Palazzo dei Priori

How today’s media can prepare for the crises of tomorrow!

14:00 - 14:50
Sala delle Colonne, Palazzo Graziani

How do you measure the social value of your journalism?

14:00 - 14:50
Sala Priori, Hotel Brufani

The power of editorial cartoons

14:00 - 14:50
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

AI journalism: the next generation?

15:00 - 15:50
Sala Brugnoli, Palazzo Cesaroni

Collaborative investigations: how cross-border collaborations deliver powerful impact

15:00 - 15:50
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

News media bargaining codes: successes and shortcomings

15:00 - 15:50
Auditorium San Francesco al Prato

Fighting gendered disinformation: how women journalists stand up to dictators, shadowy foreign agents and digital conspiracy networks

15:00 - 15:25
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Turkey at the crossroads: democracy or an Erdogan fiefdom?

15:00 - 15:50
Sala delle Colonne, Palazzo Graziani

Innovation and sustainability as fundamental elements for the competitiveness of companies

15:00 - 15:50
Sala della Vaccara, Palazzo dei Priori

Future-oriented newsrooms: who, when, how?

15:00 - 15:50
Sala Priori, Hotel Brufani

A newsletter for every neighborhood

15:30 - 15:55
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

What it’s like to investigate your country’s military during war

16:00 - 16:50
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

What’s next for the business of news?

16:00 - 16:50
Sala della Vaccara, Palazzo dei Priori

Building a viable newsroom in exile: successes and challenges of Russian independent media

16:00 - 16:50
Auditorium San Francesco al Prato

Media freedom, democracy and the rule of law in Hong Kong: the case of Jimmy Lai and Apple Daily

16:00 - 16:50
Sala delle Colonne, Palazzo Graziani

The state of gender journalism around the world: challenges, approaches and opportunities

16:00 - 16:50
Sala Brugnoli, Palazzo Cesaroni

Disinformation, censorship and the eternal search for truth

16:00 - 16:50
Sala Priori, Hotel Brufani

Mobile journalism masterclass: how mobile journalists tell big stories with small cameras

16:00 - 16:50
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Wounded witness: the challenge of vicarious trauma and moral injury

17:00 - 17:50
Sala della Vaccara, Palazzo dei Priori

From drowning to surfing: how journalism can help audiences avoid information overload

17:00 - 18:00
Sala delle Colonne, Palazzo Graziani

Using environmental open-source data

17:00 - 17:50
Auditorium San Francesco al Prato

What happens to journalism now that Twitter is dying and Facebook doesn't care about the media any more?

17:00 - 17:50
Sala Brugnoli, Palazzo Cesaroni

Fighting misinformation online: pre-bunking workshop

17:00 - 17:50
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Now it's our turn to take charge: the new generation in media and business

17:00 - 17:50
Sala Priori, Hotel Brufani

Empowering local journalists

17:00 - 17:50
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

Freedom of the press in Europe: protecting a fundamental right

18:15 - 19:15
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

Fighting climate crisis: civil disobedience as the last resort?

18:15 - 19:15
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

The microchip war: Taiwan caught between USA and China

19:30 - 20:30
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Scientific sources: how to identify them

19:30 - 20:30
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

Who protected Matteo Messina Denaro? The mafia past and present

21:00 - 22:00
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

The world in crisis

saturday 22

06:00 - 07:30
Reception, Hotel Brufani

Sunrise film walk

10:00 - 10:50
Sala della Vaccara, Palazzo dei Priori

Media as an extractive practice: tackling the Western media’s effect on Global South journalism

10:00 - 10:50
Sala Priori, Hotel Brufani

Story design sprint: design thinking and journalism with a cross-border and cross-discipline approach

10:00 - 10:50
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

Follow the oil: tracking flows of fossil fuels in wartime Russia

10:00 - 10:50
Sala Brugnoli, Palazzo Cesaroni

Latin America: how to cover a region that is always in crisis

10:00 - 10:50
Sala delle Colonne, Palazzo Graziani

Google News Initiative: new tools to find and verify news stories

10:00 - 10:50
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Building communities around critical beats: the role of local journalists across the globe

11:00 - 11:50
Sala Brugnoli, Palazzo Cesaroni

Shifting journalism narratives: how solutions journalism is changing the African storytelling narrative in four countries

11:00 - 11:50
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Investing in the future of independent journalism and civic media

11:00 - 11:25
Sala Priori, Hotel Brufani

So you're a journalist who wants to build a startup?

11:00 - 11:50
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

Making newsrooms inclusive and safe for all genders: a leadership conversation

11:00 - 11:50
Sala delle Colonne, Palazzo Graziani

Digital investigations: pushing the boundaries of newsrooms

11:00 - 11:50
Sala della Vaccara, Palazzo dei Priori

Online abuse: when newsrooms fight back

11:00 - 11:50
Auditorium San Francesco al Prato

The elephant in the room: could AI give technology giants more control over the news?

11:30 - 11:55
Sala Priori, Hotel Brufani

How to build and optimize your personal brand on LinkedIn

12:00 - 12:50
Sala della Vaccara, Palazzo dei Priori

Can governments save independent journalism? Will they? Should they?

12:00 - 13:00
Sala delle Colonne, Palazzo Graziani

Environmental investigations: forensic work with geospatial data

12:00 - 12:25
Auditorium San Francesco al Prato

Russian journalism in a time of war: reporting from exile

12:00 - 12:50
Sala Brugnoli, Palazzo Cesaroni

Data journalism and the war in Ukraine

12:00 - 12:50
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

TikTok: killing video as we know it or curing news avoidance?

12:00 - 12:50
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

How journalism’s growing infrastructure support system is catalyzing digital newsrooms

12:00 - 12:50
Sala Priori, Hotel Brufani

Top tips on self-care for journalists

12:35 - 13:00
Auditorium San Francesco al Prato

In conversation with Carlos Dada, Press Freedom Hero

13:00 - 13:45
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

#IStandWithEvan: Free Evan Gershkovich

14:00 - 14:50
Sala Priori, Hotel Brufani

How to deeply listen

14:00 - 14:50
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

From Bojana Jovanovic to Roberto Saviano, SLAPPs against the media are on the rise in Europe

14:00 - 14:50
Sala delle Colonne, Palazzo Graziani

Investigating media manipulation

14:00 - 14:50
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Exiled media is not just a trend

14:00 - 14:50
Sala della Vaccara, Palazzo dei Priori

Climate impacts every story: why are we still covering it as a niche topic?

14:00 - 14:50
Sala Brugnoli, Palazzo Cesaroni

Putting communities first: planning local news

15:00 - 15:50
Sala Brugnoli, Palazzo Cesaroni

What donors need to hear from the Global South

15:00 - 15:50
Auditorium San Francesco al Prato

Declining trust in media: a journalist safety issue

15:00 - 15:50
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Young people and the news: where is the disconnect and how can we fix it?

15:00 - 15:50
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

New voices in journalism: YouTube creator panel

15:00 - 15:50
Sala Priori, Hotel Brufani

How do we make reporting on Indigenous Peoples issues safe and meaningful?

15:00 - 15:50
Sala delle Colonne, Palazzo Graziani

Journalism GPT: it’s time to get serious about AI and automation in the newsroom

15:00 - 15:50
Sala della Vaccara, Palazzo dei Priori

Know your audience: diversity as an actual path toward representation

16:00 - 16:50
Sala della Vaccara, Palazzo dei Priori

Nonprofit news: is journalism ready for charity?

16:00 - 16:50
Sala delle Colonne, Palazzo Graziani

Holding power accountable: first you need to find the right data

16:00 - 16:50
Auditorium San Francesco al Prato

Journalism at war in Ukraine

16:00 - 16:50
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

On non-news efforts building large audiences: how we do it and why the news industry should pay attention

16:00 - 16:50
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

Reporting on remote killing: unique challenges and source protection

16:00 - 16:50
Sala Priori, Hotel Brufani

Finding new voices and telling new stories in audio

16:00 - 16:50
Sala Brugnoli, Palazzo Cesaroni

New storytelling formats for decolonised journalism: when innovation and inclusion come together

17:00 - 17:50
Sala Brugnoli, Palazzo Cesaroni

The importance of community networks for climate journalism

17:00 - 17:50
Sala della Vaccara, Palazzo dei Priori

The African Renaissance: how Africans are disrupting and redefining journalism

17:00 - 17:50
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Truth decay: science misinformation and journalistic responses

17:00 - 17:30
Sala delle Colonne, Palazzo Graziani

The privilege of speaking English: the obstacles faced by second-language English journalists

17:00 - 18:00
Auditorium San Francesco al Prato

Endangered: journalism in jeopardy

17:00 - 18:00
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

Ukraine: the path towards Europe and resisting invasion

18:15 - 19:15
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

Looking beyond

18:15 - 19:15
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

The denial of rights in Italy

19:30 - 20:30
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Afghanistan and Iran: women, life, liberty!

19:30 - 20:30
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

The pandemic: what has been learnt and how to prepare for the future

21:00 - 22:00
Auditorium San Francesco al Prato

Words on trial. In conversation with Corrado Formigli and Roberto Saviano

22:30 - 00:00
Auditorium San Francesco al Prato

Propaganda Live

sunday 23

10:00 - 11:00
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

Don't call them accidents: workplace injuries and deaths

10:00 - 13:00
Sala Priori, Hotel Brufani

Public communication workshop

10:45 - 11:45
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Supremacists, negationists, conspiracy theorists: the Republican Party heading for 2024

11:30 - 12:30
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

Omissis - Graziella De Palo: an Italian story

12:00 - 13:00
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

The Mediterranean: frontline of migrant deaths

15:00 - 16:00
Sala Priori, Hotel Brufani

The regional prevention plan: conveying awareness of the importance of prevention for effective journalism

15:30 - 16:30
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Tehran, Damascus, Kabul: how the EU can support the battle for women's freedom

15:30 - 16:30
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

Physics and philosophy at school: enjoy!

16:45 - 17:45
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

China: internal repression and new world (dis)order

17:00 - 18:00
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

How women writers have changed the world

18:00 - 19:00
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Pope Francis: an evaluation

18:15 - 19:15
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

I'll be your memory

19:15 - 20:15
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Might isn't right: defending democracy from billionaires and technopopulists

19:30 - 20:30
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

Forrest: daily talk show detox

21:00 - 22:00
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

Women in the Italian Resistance