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Featured | June 22, 2023

Mark your calendars: ISOJ will celebrate its 25th anniversary in April 2024 with a special global hybrid conference

By Teresa Mioli

The International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ) will celebrate 25 years of discussions on the present and future of digital journalism on April 12 – 13, 2024. Since 1999, this unique hybrid annual conference has brought together hundreds of journalists, media executives, scholars and students both online and in person at the University of Texas …  Read More

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Featured | April 26, 2023

ISOJ 2023 reaches more than 1,100 participants from around the world to discuss the present and future of online journalism

By Teresa Mioli

The International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ) celebrated 24 years of conversations and research into online journalism with a truly hybrid conference that attracted more than 1,100 people from around the globe. ISOJ 2023 took place from April 14 to 15 at the AT&T Hotel and Conference Center on the University of Texas at Austin …  Read More

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Featured | April 17, 2023

Journalists call on organizations, lawmakers to support reporters in exile, ISOJ audience hears

By Sierra Juarez

View video of panel here. A group of journalists who have been exiled because of their reporting called on lawmakers, news organizations, and nonprofits to help find ways to sustainably support reporters in similar situations. The journalists gathered at the International Symposium of Online Journalism (ISOJ) in Austin on April 15 to discuss how they …  Read More

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Featured | May 20, 2021

ISOJ wraps up second virtual-only conference with more than 7,300 registrants from 154 countries

By ISOJ

More than 7,300 people from 154 countries and territories registered for the 22nd annual International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ) as the global journalism conference went completely online for the second year in a row. This year’s ISOJ brought together journalists, academics and media executives from around the world for five days of discussion on …  Read More

Capital B Keynote 2021

Featured | April 29, 2021

With a national newsroom and several local bureaus, Capital B wants to get closer to Black communities and regain their trust in media

By Silvia Higuera

Lauren Williams and Akoto Ofori-Atta, co-founders of Capital B, opened the fourth day of the International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ) speaking about how their new project came to be, it’s main purpose and what they expect when they officially launch the site next Fall. Williams and Ofori-Atta talked to Amanda Zamora, co-founder and publisher …  Read More

Sherman and Palmer Keynote 2021

Featured | April 29, 2021

New media outlet focused on Washington politics, Punchbowl news achieves more than US$ 1 million in subscriptions in only four months

By Marina Estarque

Anna Palmer and Jake Sherman talked about the success of their recently created enterprise, a membership-based news community called Punchbowl News, during the first panel discussion of the third day of the International Symposium of Online Journalism (ISOJ).  Punchbowl News has a daily podcast, a free morning newsletter and a premium membership program, that include …  Read More

Coloquio feature

Coloquio | August 12, 2020

At post-ISOJ Colloquium 2020, Iberian American journalists discuss innovation, inclusion and resilience amid government hostility

By Knight Center

Since 2008, the Iberian American Colloquium on Digital Journalism has been a conference in Spanish, held at the University of Texas at Austin annually, the day after the International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ). It usually gathers 100 to 125 journalists, media executives and scholars from Latin America, Spain and Portugal who travel to Austin …  Read More

ISOJ2020: Online investigations: How journalists are using AI and OSINT

Artificial Intelligence | July 28, 2020

Machine intelligence empowers journalism by giving journalists the opportunity to see what they missed, panelists say

By Perla Arellano Fraire

For the first time in its 21-year-history, the International Symposium of Online Journalism (ISOJ) was held online only in 2020. To watch this panel, click here. To watch other panels, click here. Computers will do as much as they are told to do, and it takes a team of journalists to do so, said the …  Read More

Deb Adeogba (Microsoft News), Aron Pilhofer (Temple University & News Catalyst), Cindy Royal (Texas State University), and Millie Tran (Texas Tribune).

Featured | July 25, 2020

Changing the mindset of journalists towards a product-oriented newsroom can open new revenue streams for journalism, panel says

By Júlio Lubianco

Many newsrooms struggle for survival in a very adverse business environment. Still, news organizations are tasked with the challenge of shaping their editorial content into products that make sense for their audiences. “In a perfect world, you would commit time, people and money, you would have a whole innovation group or an R&D [research and …  Read More