International Symposium on Online Journalism
A program of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin
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
Business Models | June 13, 2018
In the “post-advertising era”, subscriptions, memberships and donations are some of the main strategies to make online journalism a reality. Getting audiences to pay for content and support their favorite news organizations has become the number one goal for many publishers – after a sort of general failure to generate enough revenue through digital advertising. … Read More
Business Models | June 13, 2018
The 19th International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ) took place at the Texas University at Austin from April 13-14, 2018 ISOJ brought together diversity and multiples points of view by having speakers from around the globe to enlighten the attendees with their perspective on a plethora of topics. Several subjects were discussed during the ISOJ, … Read More
Photography | June 13, 2018
While ubiquitous photography was not the focus of ISOJ 2018, the current state of affairs in online journalism denotes interesting relations with what is shaping the engagement with photography across digital media, especially taking into consideration the meaningful contribution of gathering lectures from scholars together with a diverse palette of practitioners active in the field … Read More
Artificial Intelligence | June 13, 2018
The main goal of the panel, “What’s next: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, Augmented Reality and other tech trends that will impact journalism,” was to discuss the current technological tools used in journalism and their impact on the practice, taking into consideration some specific cases. Mia Tramz, managing editor of Life VR, Meredith (formerly Time … Read More