International Symposium on Online Journalism
A program of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin
Keynote | April 12, 2019
Watch video of Blodget’s keynote speech from ISOJ 2019. It took years of facing skepticism and relentless experimentation, but Insider Inc. CEO Henry Blodget ultimately took the prospect of digital media and turned it into a multimillion-dollar company. Blodget discussed how he finds success and faces problems in a keynote speech on April 12 at … Read More
Registration | April 11, 2019
Live streaming of the 20th International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ) will be available at isoj.org in English and Spanish from April 12 to 13, 2019. The annual conference, which brings together journalists, media executives and scholars from around the world, takes place at the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at … Read More
Registration | March 30, 2019
As you prepare for your time at ISOJ, we want to help make your time here in Austin as enjoyable and as easy as possible. Your ISOJ registration will cover the cost of breakfast, coffee, and snacks both days of the conference, as well as food and beverages at our Thursday and Friday night receptions. … Read More
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Registration | March 30, 2019
Welcome to Austin, Texas! We consistently rank #1 (or nearly there) on lists of the country’s top cities to visit and live. We’re also a “media hotbed,” as big publishers have flocked to our fair city in recent years. And as you may know, we’re the Live Music Capital of the World. But are … Read More
Registration | March 22, 2019
We’ve reached capacity for the 20th International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ) and registration is now closed. If you were not able to register, live streaming of the conference on April 12 and 13 will be available via isoj.org, including a channel with simultaneous translation to Spanish. You can also keep up with the symposium … Read More
Registration | February 15, 2019
Registration is open for a day-long workshop examining the risks female journalists face on the internet. The workshop, titled “Strategies to confront online violence: Female journalists cultivating resilience & building community,” will be held April 11, 2019 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Belo Center for New Media on the University of Texas … Read More
Coloquio | February 6, 2019
Click here to read this post in English. Las inscripciones están abiertas para el 12º Coloquio Iberoamericano de Periodismo Digital. Este seminario anual tendrá lugar el 14 de abril de 2019 de 9 a.m. a 2 p.m. en el Belo Center for New Media en el campus de la Universidad de Texas en Austin. El Coloquio le … Read More
Registration | January 25, 2019
Developers, designers, researchers, news junkies, journalists, academics and others in the Austin area will come together in April for a hackathon focused on building news credibility tools. The free event — which will take place on Thursday, April 11 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Studio 919 at the Texas Tribune — is organized … Read More
Audio | June 13, 2018
The same way that the digital age promised a lot of opportunities to news media companies all over the world, it also brought some darkness to most of them. In some cases, literally. Since the beginning of the 21st century, the newspaper industry shrunk at full speed. In the United States alone, more than 600 … Read More
June 13, 2018
Mountains of garbage floating on a river and an urban landscape at the other edge. That’s how the creator of Deepnews.ai Frédéric Filloux described the Internet nowadays. He said that 100 million links flood the network every day and the journalism industry has room to “detect quality signals from such noise,” thus increasing “the economic … Read More