Keynote speaker: Lydia Polgreen
Keynote Speaker: Jim VandeHei
Chair: Jennifer Preston, vice president of journalism, Knight Foundation
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Jim VandeHei, co-founder and CEO, Axios (former executive-editor and co-founder, Politico)
Factchecking: The international trend of verifying public discourse
Chair and Presenter: W. Gardner Selby, editor, PolitiFact Texas/Austin American-Statesman
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Craig Silverman, media editor, BuzzFeed
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Alexios Mantzarlis, director, International Fact-Checking Network at Poynter
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Laura Zommer, executive director, Chequeado, Argentina
Accountability Journalism in the Trump Era
Chair and presenter: Evan Smith, CEO and co-founder, Texas Tribune
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Clara Jeffery, editor-in-chief, Mother Jones
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McKay Coppins, staff writer, The Atlantic
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Matt K. Lewis, senior columnist, The Daily Beast
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Sopan Deb, general news reporter, The New York Times
RESEARCH PANEL: Creating, Producing, and Engaging: Latest journalism practices underway in newsrooms
Chair: Amy Schmitz Weiss, ISOJ research chair, associate professor at San Diego State University
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Audience Engagement Editors as Newsroom Intermediaries
Karin Assmann and Nicholas Diakopoulos, University of Maryland
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Decoding the Podaissance: Identifying Community Journalism Practices in Newsroom and Avocational Podcasts
Marcus Funk, Sam Houston State University
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Managing Digital Products in a Newsroom Context
Cindy Royal, Texas State University
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Knowing the Numbers: Assessing Attitudes among Journalists and Educators about Using and Interpreting Data, Statistics, and Research
John Wihbey and Mark Coddington, Northeastern University and Washington and Lee University
Keynote speaker: Lydia Polgreen
Chair: Evan Smith, CEO and co-founder, Texas Tribune
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Lydia Polgreen, editor-in-chief, The Huffington Post
Conversational journalism: How bots and artificial intelligence can get us there
Chair and presenter: Sanette Tanaka, product designer, Vox Media
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John Keefe, bot developer & product manager, Quartz Bot Studio
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Andrew Phelps, product director, New York Times
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Joey Marburger, director of product, Washington Post
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Travis Swicegood, director of engineering, Condé Nast ATX
Keynote panel: The transformation of U.S. metropolitan newspapers: How newsrooms have changed from print-centric to digital-centric
Chair and presenter: Mike Wilson, editor, Dallas Morning News
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Nancy Barnes, editor and executive vice president, Houston Chronicle
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Neil Chase, executive editor, The Mercury News and East Bay Times
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Kathleen Kingsbury, managing editor for digital, Boston Globe
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Aminda (Mindy) Marqués Gonzalez, executive editor and vice president, Miami Herald
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Stan Wischnowski, executive editor and senior vice president, Philadelphia Media Network
The Podcast Boom: Prospects for news organizations
Chair: Joshua Benton, director, Nieman Lab at Harvard
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Nicholas Quah, founder, Hot Pod
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Eric Nuzum, senior vice president of original content development, Audible
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Andrea Silenzi, host/producer, Why Oh Why
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Lisa Tobin, executive producer for audio, The New York Times
Keynote Speaker: Melissa Bell
Chair: Jeff Jarvis, professor and director of Tow-Knight Center of Entrepreneurial Journalism, CUNY
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Melissa Bell, publisher, Vox Media
RESEARCH PANEL: Diving Deep into the layers of journalism, the journalism practice and its audiences
Chair: Kathleen McElroy, associate director, UT Austin School of Journalism
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Social Capital to the Rescue of the Fourth Estate: A Playbook for Converting Good Will into Economic Support
James Breiner, University of Navarra, Spain
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A Reinvention Through Opportunities Of Crisis: An Exploratory Exercise On Journalistic Initiatives On Medium
Maria Clara Aquino Bittencourt, University Unisinos, Brazil
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The News of Your Youth: Memory and Subjective Experience of Time During Major News Events
Terry Britt, University of Missouri
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Through the Twitter Glass: How Social Media Reflect and Influence the Political Climate
Pei Zheng and Saif Shahin, Ithaca College and Bowling Green State University
Accountability journalism in polarized societies around the world
Chair: Krissah Thompson, staff writer, Washington Post
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Carlos Fernando Chamorro, founder and editor, Confidencial.ni, Nicaragua
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Ivan Kolpakov, co-founded and deputy editor-in-chief, Meduza,io, Russia/Latvia
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Stevan Dojčinović, editor-in-chief, KRIK.rs, Serbia
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Malou Mangahas, co-founder and executive director, Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, Philippines
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Luz Mely-Reyes, co-founder and general director, Efecto Cocuyo, Venezuela
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Martín Pallares, journalist and co-founder, 4Pelagatos, Ecuador
News startups and new business models: Innovation in the search of sustainability
Chair: Aron Pilhofer, James B. Steele Chair in Journalism Innovation, Temple University
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Jim Brady, founder and CEO, Spirited Media (BillyPenn.com/TheIncline.com)
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Tom Grundy, editor-in-chief, Hong Kong Free Press
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Juan Luis Sánchez, deputy director, ElDiario.es, Spain
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Janine Warner, ICFJ Knight Fellow and executive director, SembraMedia
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Li Zixin, founder and CEO, China30s.com, China