Programme 2025

wednesday 9

09:30 - 10:30
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

L’Umbria è facile: la Regione a portata di mano

10:30 - 12:00
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Podcast, libri e musei: i giovani al centro della cultura

12:00 - 13:30
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Umbria gets connected: digital communications thanks to the Policy of Cohesion

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

Strengthening work policies: the strategy of the FSE+ programme of the Umbria Regional Council

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

Google Maps for journalists

17:00 - 18:30
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Decentralising media support for the world's majority

thursday 10

08:50 - 09:20
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Safety fundamentals for journalists and editors

09:00 - 13:30
#Spazio

Management and culture clinics

09:30 - 10:20
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Journalists as founders: reinventing journalism for the next era

09:30 - 10:20
Sala Brugnoli, Palazzo Cesaroni

15 years of news product management: what worked, what didn’t?

09:30 - 10:20
Teatro del Pavone

Voices across borders: journalism in exile amid rising autocracies

09:30 - 10:20
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

Leading by example: transforming newsroom leadership for climate crisis reporting

09:30 - 10:20
Teatro della Sapienza

Where's the money?

09:30 - 10:20
Sala delle Colonne, Palazzo Graziani

What journalism needs to change to meet the needs of the Global South

10:30 - 11:20
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

Journalists under fire

10:30 - 11:20
Sala del Dottorato

The power of editorial cartoons

10:30 - 11:20
Teatro della Sapienza

Going direct to consumer: redefining media in the age of constant disruption

10:30 - 11:20
Sala delle Colonne, Palazzo Graziani

Justice as a process: rethinking human rights journalism in a polarised world

10:30 - 11:20
Teatro del Pavone

Why I told this story: reporting on gender for impact and to effect change

10:30 - 11:20
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

The future of local news: decline, resilience and the path forward

10:30 - 11:20
Auditorium San Francesco al Prato

The evolution of the censorship narrative: challenges and threats facing fact-checkers in recent years

11:30 - 12:20
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

How to find and execute the scoops that can rock the world

11:30 - 12:20
Sala delle Colonne, Palazzo Graziani

European Press Prize insights: laureate talks and 2025 shortlist

11:30 - 12:20
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Press Forward and how philanthropy is trying to save local news

11:30 - 12:20
Sala del Dottorato

Mastering mobile journalism: record, edit, and deliver video packages with your smartphone

11:30 - 12:20
Teatro del Pavone

Who owns the news and why does it matter?

11:30 - 12:20
Auditorium San Francesco al Prato

Captured: how Silicon Valley's AI emperors are reshaping reality

11:30 - 12:20
Sala Brugnoli, Palazzo Cesaroni

Journalism’s public value: balancing individual metrics and societal impact

11:30 - 12:20
Teatro della Sapienza

Western journalism and its discontents in the MENA region

12:35 - 13:00
Sala Brugnoli, Palazzo Cesaroni

Fireside chat with Rana Sabbagh

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

Trump and the press: what to expect in the second term

12:35 - 13:00
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Wayfinder Media Trends Report: navigating tomorrow

12:35 - 13:00
Teatro della Sapienza

Going undercover

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

Rebuilding my life: a conversation with photojournalist Christina Assi

12:35 - 13:00
Sala del Dottorato

Running a feminist grassroots journalism network in India

12:35 - 13:00
Teatro del Pavone

Journalism is not a crime: Jason Rezaian and Cecilia Sala in conversation

14:00 - 18:30
#Spazio

Safety clinics for journalists and editors

14:00 - 14:50
Teatro del Pavone

Addressing Ukraine fatigue in the media: keeping the story alive

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

New here? Lessons from newsroom leaders joining product teams

14:00 - 14:50
Teatro della Sapienza

In an age of AI, voice is the ultimate currency

14:00 - 14:50
Auditorium San Francesco al Prato

Journalism as an effective tool in upholding human rights standards

14:00 - 14:50
Sala del Dottorato

Climate change and the Amazon: the run-up to COP 30 Belém—and beyond—while amplifying local voices

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

AI tools for journalists 

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

Democracy defenders: a conversation with funders investing in independent journalism

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

Digital content creators and journalists: shaping the future of news together

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

From funding crisis to opportunity: ideas and solutions in a post-USAID landscape

15:00 - 15:50
Teatro della Sapienza

Covering Sudan: navigating conflict, risk, and the humanitarian crisis

15:00 - 15:50
Sala del Dottorato

Journalism safety 360: ensuring journalist security in a hostile world

15:00 - 15:50
Teatro del Pavone

Comment is free, facts are sacred/wasted

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

Communicating health at school: presentation of the project "Head, hands, heart, I save you!"

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

Rebuilding trust in the news ecosystem

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

What we can learn from the media's treatment of Gisele Pelicot?

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

The Muskification of American media

16:00 - 16:50
Sala del Dottorato

How to generate impact from your stories

16:00 - 16:50
Teatro della Sapienza

The case for emergency visas for journalists in exile

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

How to build a journalism fund

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

How can we make climate training effective and engaging for a sceptical newsroom?

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

Journalism in the age of AI: agents, answers and accuracy

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

A new season for journalism in Syria?

16:00 - 16:50
Teatro del Pavone

At the cutting edge of local news: hear from the innovators making things work

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

CIR Open-Source Film Awards ceremony

17:00 - 18:00
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Journalism or public interest information? The funder's next frontier

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

Press under pressure: global challenges for journalism in the Trump era and beyond

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

From fake to faith: regaining trust in journalism in Africa

17:00 - 17:25
Sala del Dottorato

Netanyahu׳s domestic war on the Israeli media

17:00 - 17:50
Teatro della Sapienza

Battling disinformation in the shadow of hybrid warfare: lessons from Romania and Moldova

17:00 - 17:50
Teatro del Pavone

All journalists are content creators: it’s time for us to embrace that

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

Who speaks for Tech? Bias, power, and the global reporting divide

18:00 - 20:00
Auditorium San Francesco al Prato

No Other Land

friday 11

06:00 - 08:00
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Sunrise smartphone photography walk

09:00 - 13:30
#Spazio

Safety clinics for journalists and editors

09:30 - 10:20
Teatro del Pavone

Justice for Gazan journalists

09:30 - 10:20
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

Reporting on the four biggest killers: exposing the corporate playbook of Big Food, tobacco, fossil fuels, and alcohol

09:30 - 10:20
Teatro della Sapienza

Climate in context: covering the climate crisis in a fractured world

09:30 - 10:20
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Pinpoint for journalists

09:30 - 10:20
Sala delle Colonne, Palazzo Graziani

The impact/activism question, as seen from different parts of the globe

09:30 - 10:20
Sala del Dottorato

Developing a community-focused ethic of news technology

10:30 - 11:20
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Closing the gap: aligning local news with community needs

10:30 - 11:20
Teatro del Pavone

Investigating and reporting on AI ‘nudifying’ sites and non-consensual intimate imagery

10:30 - 11:20
Auditorium San Francesco al Prato

Lessons from feminist investigative journalists around the world

10:30 - 11:20
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

International justice at the crossroads: what role for the media?

10:30 - 11:20
Sala Brugnoli, Palazzo Cesaroni

How to grow thriving media businesses in the toughest circumstances

10:30 - 11:20
Sala delle Colonne, Palazzo Graziani

Using Telegram in online investigations

10:30 - 11:20
Teatro della Sapienza

When anything can happen: lessons in planning for the unknown from a wartime newsroom

11:30 - 11:55
Sala del Dottorato

Designing the newsroom of 2025: rethinking structure, culture and leadership

11:30 - 12:20
Sala delle Colonne, Palazzo Graziani

Tools for open-source researchers: building a collaborative toolkit that actually works

11:30 - 12:20
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Philanthropic support for journalism that aligns with foundation program and priority areas

11:30 - 12:20
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

Local Call: independent journalism in Israel after 7 October 2023

11:30 - 12:20
Sala Brugnoli, Palazzo Cesaroni

After the hype: what are the key trends in journalism and AI?

11:30 - 12:20
Auditorium San Francesco al Prato

Broken trust: time to abandon a manipulated metric

11:30 - 12:20
Teatro del Pavone

Open season on the oppressed: can diversity survive?

11:30 - 12:20
Teatro della Sapienza

Going independent: how journalists are building audiences and growing businesses across the world

12:05 - 12:30
Sala del Dottorato

How to make climate science shine on social media

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

The global assault on press freedom: what we should know, what can be done?

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

Quite normal men: the Pelicot trial and its consequences

12:35 - 13:00
Teatro del Pavone

Poetry and war

12:35 - 13:00
Sala Brugnoli, Palazzo Cesaroni

Child slavery in global supply chains: an investigation from the mines of India

12:35 - 13:00
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

How AI is revolutionising fact-checking around the world

12:35 - 13:00
Teatro della Sapienza

Who is mainstream media now?

12:35 - 13:00
Sala delle Colonne, Palazzo Graziani

There’s nothing virtual about this! The psychological toll of online harassment

12:40 - 13:05
Sala del Dottorato

Networked journalism: how collaborative networks are reshaping global news media

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

Bridging ethics: lessons for mainstream and humanitarian journalism in crisis reporting

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

Unplugging to reconnect: creating premium offline experiences to recharge membership

14:00 - 14:50
Auditorium San Francesco al Prato

Impact investing: a new frontier for journalism funding?

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

Detecting AI deception in the real world: lessons learned from the experts

14:00 - 14:50
Teatro della Sapienza

Can AI improve the safety of journalists?

14:00 - 14:50
Teatro del Pavone

Preserving truth: the role of journalism in Syria's past and future

14:00 - 18:30
#Spazio

Management and culture clinics

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

When removing bylines isn’t enough: how can journalists safely investigate tech in 2025?

14:00 - 14:45
Sala del Dottorato

News and democracy: how to strengthen the bond in trying times

15:00 - 15:50
Teatro della Sapienza

Best practices in reporting gender-related crimes: centering survivors and ethical storytelling

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

Telling big tales on big tech with big data

15:00 - 15:50
Sala del Dottorato

How to work with editors and ship at pace

15:00 - 15:50
Teatro del Pavone

Silencing the press: the global spread of foreign agent laws and their impact on journalism

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

What is the impact of journalism and how to measure it?

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

Behind the scenes: how AI is reshaping local news 

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

Bringing readers back: real world tactics for combatting news fatigue

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

Who should be supporting journalism? Why?

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

Power and control: how media and tech counter authoritarianism

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

Closing the AI adoption gap

16:00 - 16:50
Teatro del Pavone

Platforms and disinformation: European rules on digital media

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

ICFJ presents: The News Creator Award for Excellence in Independent Video Journalism

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

How to save journalism from big tech

16:00 - 16:50
Teatro della Sapienza

The #GazaProject: collaborative investigations without access

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

Journalism plus imagination

16:00 - 16:50
Sala del Dottorato

How to promote well-being in your organization

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

What do journalism funders want—and why are they so focused on business model?

17:00 - 17:50
Teatro del Pavone

Navigating organizational operations in wartime: insights from Ukrainian media leaders

17:00 - 17:50
Sala del Dottorato

Finding people who don’t want to be found: how to remotely investigate and identify perpetrators of human rights violations and crimes

17:00 - 17:25
Auditorium San Francesco al Prato

Resilience and representation: leading local newsrooms in a divided America

17:00 - 17:50
Teatro della Sapienza

Journalism that stands up: press freedom in Latin America

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

Free expression and the future of information regulation online

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

Leading the AI-driven newsroom: strategies for embracing innovation responsibly

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

New angles: creating a richer, more inclusive news story

17:35 - 18:00
Auditorium San Francesco al Prato

The mafia boss, the president, and me: an investigation by Can Dundar

18:15 - 20:15
Auditorium San Francesco al Prato

A State of Passion

saturday 12

06:00 - 08:00
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Sunrise smartphone videography walk

09:00 - 13:30
#Spazio

Management and culture clinics

09:30 - 10:20
Sala del Dottorato

In conversation with Forensic Architecture

09:30 - 10:20
Sala Brugnoli, Palazzo Cesaroni

Earth shorts: the role of journalists and social media content creators in redefining environmental journalism

09:30 - 10:20
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

News or noise? The competing visions for journalism in an AI-mediated society

09:30 - 10:20
Teatro del Pavone

When governments fund journalism: walking the independence tightrope

09:30 - 10:20
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

How to Stop a Nuclear War — with film director Paul Jay

09:30 - 10:20
Teatro della Sapienza

Lessons from writing a book about mental health for journalists

09:30 - 10:20
Sala delle Colonne, Palazzo Graziani

Can fact-checkers accurately forecast false claims that may cause harm, and defend wider freedom of speech?

10:30 - 11:20
Sala delle Colonne, Palazzo Graziani

Investigating the truth: preparing for a toxic future as a donor and journalist

10:30 - 11:20
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Building AI for newsrooms: AI agents, RAG, everything you need to know

10:30 - 11:20
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

Censorship and self-censorship in media during wars

10:30 - 11:20
Auditorium San Francesco al Prato

Am I Black enough for you?: reimagining coverage of race and identity in a global era of backlash

10:30 - 11:20
Teatro del Pavone

Journalism under pressure: freedom of the press in Georgia

10:30 - 10:55
Sala Brugnoli, Palazzo Cesaroni

Breaking the silence: the journalists working in secret to tell the stories of Afghanistan’s women and girls. An interview with Zahra Joya

10:30 - 11:20
Sala del Dottorato

Going solo: creator journalist workshop

10:30 - 11:20
Teatro della Sapienza

Bricks and mortar: the new wave of houses of journalism

11:30 - 12:20
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

Journalism intermediaries: in the way or here to stay?

11:30 - 11:55
Sala del Dottorato

Disrupted politics, resilient media: sustainable journalism in a polarized world

11:30 - 12:20
Sala Brugnoli, Palazzo Cesaroni

Shaping the future: product strategy for purposeful AI adoption in newsrooms

11:30 - 12:20
Teatro del Pavone

Espionage, abuse of AI and torture in broad daylight: groundbreaking investigations that can change the world

11:30 - 12:20
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Author talks: so you think you have a book in you?

11:30 - 12:20
Auditorium San Francesco al Prato

Enemy of the people? The role of the media in an era of rising authoritarianism

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

Stories on Umbria International Journalism Award

12:05 - 13:00
Sala del Dottorato

From data to impact: visualising open source investigations

12:35 - 13:00
Teatro della Sapienza

What is journalism for? A conversation with Jon Allsop and Joel Simon

12:35 - 13:00
Teatro del Pavone

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama

12:35 - 13:15
Auditorium San Francesco al Prato

In conversation with Diane Foley

12:35 - 13:00
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Deceptive AI video: what to know about creation, usage, guardrails and regulation

12:35 - 13:00
Sala Brugnoli, Palazzo Cesaroni

Exhibition "No" by Meduza: how independent journalism meets contemporary art to combat news avoidance

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

Righting wrongs: an interview with Ken Roth

14:00 - 14:50
Auditorium San Francesco al Prato

The weaponisation of nostalgia 

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

Captured, tortured, vanished: what it takes to cover the Russian occupation in Ukraine. The case of Victoria Roshchyna

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

Being a “one woman show” in media: what you need to know

14:00 - 14:50
Teatro del Pavone

Now the hard part: evaluating and integrating AI in newsrooms

14:00 - 18:30
#Spazio

Safety clinics for journalists and editors

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

Making satellite imagery accessible for independent journalists and small newsrooms

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

Philanthropy, non-profit local news and established media organizations: a new way to think about supporting news ecosystems

15:00 - 15:50
Teatro del Pavone

A country transformed: the monumental two weeks that shook Damascus

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

Collaboration beyond content: strengthening independent public-interest journalism

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

The fundraising limbo: why are there no grants in the South of Europe?

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

Breaking on Bluesky: live news in a post-Twitter era

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

Investigating AI systems in your community

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

We've been here before: the continuous fight for press freedom

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

Product is for everyone: challenges and lessons from small and local news in operationalizing the audience-centric mindset

16:00 - 16:50
Teatro del Pavone

The disinformation disintegration

16:00 - 16:25
Sala delle Colonne, Palazzo Graziani

Beyond the algorithm: how to report on generative AI outside the West

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

Journalism ethics in the creator economy era

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

Mobile Journalism Awards film screenings

16:35 - 17:00
Sala delle Colonne, Palazzo Graziani

How the Financial Times is using AI

17:00 - 17:50
Teatro del Pavone

#FreeThePress: in conversation with Alsu Kurmasheva and Omar Radi

17:00 - 19:30
Auditorium San Francesco al Prato

Describing war, listening to the survivors

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

Mistakes, setbacks and unfulfilled expectations: an honest f*ck-up session

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

Co-creational news media

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

Witness and subject: the evolution of war photography in Gaza

17:10 - 18:00
Sala delle Colonne, Palazzo Graziani

No newsroom wants to be late for AI, but is that good news for the Global South?

18:00 - 18:50
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Artificial intelligence: ethics, rules, and future scenarios

19:00 - 19:50
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Masculinity: how to describe it, how to read it, how to change it

20:00 - 21:00
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

A new world: a dialogue between Benedetta Tobagi and Marco Damilano

20:30 - 21:30
Auditorium San Francesco al Prato

Resist: a monologue by Roberto Saviano

22:00 - 23:30
Auditorium San Francesco al Prato

Propaganda evening

sunday 13

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

50 years of Amnesty International Italy: civic engagement that changed Italy’s history

10:30 - 11:20
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

The human farm: how digital platforms and AI are reshaping our lives

11:00 - 12:00
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

War on correspondents

11:30 - 12:20
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Sacrifice zones: freedom of information and investigative journalism

12:15 - 13:15
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

Melonian Italy

12:30 - 13:20
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

The war in Sudan: a genocide fueled by foreign powers

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

From Ukraine to Gaza: international law under siege

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

Crime and prejudice: how we tell the story of violence when the perpetrator is a woman

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

The European dream: EU enlargement amid hopes, obstacles and disillusionment

16:15 - 17:05
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

The attack on democracy in the era of the broligarchs

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

Trump's America and the rise of global fascism

17:15 - 18:15
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

Gaza, the words to say it

18:00 - 18:50
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

Giving a voice to post-Assad Syria

18:30 - 19:20
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

On another planet

19:00 - 19:50
Sala Raffaello, Hotel Brufani

The new Afro-descendant voices challenging stereotypes in Italian media narratives

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

Make-up news

20:30 - 21:30
Sala dei Notari, Palazzo dei Priori

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