Transparency is an oft-cited solution to the trust crisis, but what does that mean in practice? Must journalists document all aspects of their work - or does that risk creating journalism products tha...
Vivian Schiller
Vivian Schiller is a longtime executive at the intersection of journalism, media and technology. She recently joined the Aspen Institute where she oversees programming across media, cybersecurity, tech and innovation. Most recently, she was with Civil the decentralized platform for trustworthy journalism.
Vivian held a number of executive roles in the media industry. She was the Global Chair of News at Twitter. In this role, she led the company’s strategy for news and partnership with journalism organizations and the news publishing ecosystem.
Before that Vivian was Senior VP & Chief Digital Office, NBC News where she led strategy and operations for the networks’ presence on the web, mobile, devices, and social media.
Prior to NBC, Schiller served as President and CEO of NPR, leading all of NPR's worldwide media operations. She was Senior Vice President and General Manager of NYTimes.com and Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Discovery Times Channel, a joint venture of The New York Times and Discovery Communications. Earlier in her career, Schiller was the head of CNN Productions, where she led CNN's long-form programming efforts. Documentaries and series produced under her auspices earned multiple honors, including three Peabody Awards, four Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Awards, and dozens of Emmys.
Schiller is a Director of the Scott Trust, which owns The Guardian, and sits on several other boards.
Events IJF 2023
Collaborative investigations: how cross-border collaborations deliver powerful impact
Some of the most powerful investigative reporting of recent years has been the result of global collaboration among local and regional news organizations and coordinating bodies like ICIJ. Setting asi...
Russia-based journalists have had to flee their homes and families or risk imprisonment and worse. Their revenue sources are mostly gone and - as Russian nationals - they face hostility and mistrust d...
Deepfakes are expected to come broadly online in 2020, ushering in an era of confusion or worse – the complete collapse of trust in what we see and hear. What do news operation need to know? And how...
Is philanthropy-funded journalism “real” journalism - and how does it work in a traditional newsroom?
At a growing number of traditional and legacy news organizations, philanthropy is supporting reporting and journalism projects that otherwise might not be possible. In news organizations--large and s...
Targeting technology: how are we covering one of the most important beats in the world?
Technology has become one of the most important news beats in the world, impacting elections, economies and societal structures. How are global news organizations approaching their coverage?
The role of journalism as a check on power is being tested all over the world, even in counties that have traditionally enjoyed a high degree of press freedom. In this panel, we’ll speak to those on...
As states and corporations increasingly load decision-making onto artificial intelligence technologies and algorithms, how can we as journalists keep them in check? How do you hold an algorithm to acc...
An unprecedented degree of lies and obfuscation – including from the highest levels of governments - has challenged traditional newsroom norms of fairness and balance. Journalists have had to rethin...
The key attributes of blockchain technology - decentralized, immutable and trustless - hold promise for a news media environment increasingly controlled by powerful entities. In this session the speak...
While the news industry struggles to find a sustainable revenue model, newsrooms including Reuters and some promising digital startups have announced mass layoffs in recent months. Meanwhile, nonprofi...
Trust in public institutions, banks and the media is dwindling. Where does that leave financial journalism, 10 years after the 2008 financial crisis? And why does this matter more than ever?
It does appear that Facebook has fallen completely out of love with the news business. Is it us? Is it them? Is it something we said? Does it matter? This panel will explore our troubled romance with ...
In a world where people pay attention to journalism because of their beliefs and feelings, why bother with objectivity? Can you have subjective journalism without feeding the fake news frenzy? Does pe...
In the last year, foundations, universities and other institutions answered the call to build solutions for global information disorders. How are these initiatives working together? How are they addre...
Advertising has been an important source of funding for journalism for more than a century. But news media organizations are increasingly losing market share to other actors, especially large technolo...
Between ad blocking and sinking CPM's, funding for high-quality journalism is harder and harder to come by. From donations to micropayments, crowdfunding to billionaires, we'll explore what's workin...
The session will consider new approaches to storytelling in the digital age, including innovative technologies and methods being used to source stories and new formats being used to visualize the st...
Challenged by a radically new scenario and undermined by nimble new competitors, mainstream media is hard at it trying to weather the digital revolution. Put bluntly, is there any place in the futur...
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