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Misinformation panel ISOJ 2020

Fact Checking | July 22, 2020

Journalists and scholars agree to go beyond fact-checking to dismantle the systems behind fake news

By Paola Nalvarte

Journalists and academics debated the importance of researching the findings of fact-checking to discover what strategies and interests false information serves during the panel “Disinformation and Misinformation. What can be done beyond traditional fact checking?” on July 21 at the  International Online Journalism Symposium (ISOJ). Panel moderator Talia Stroud, director of the Center for Media …  Read More

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ISOJ2020 | July 21, 2020

Journalists struggle with government science denialism as they report on COVID-19

By Sierra Juarez

As the coronavirus continues to devastate many parts of the world, journalists are grappling with the best way to cover the disease as information changes and amid a culture of science denialism.  Four science reporters discussed the state of journalism during a pandemic at the International Symposium on Online Journalism on July 21. The health …  Read More

ISOJ2020 | July 21, 2020

Machine learning can help newsrooms find stories, advance their goals

By Sierra Juarez

Machine learning can help journalists enhance their workflow and find stories that may have been missed otherwise, said Google News Lab teaching fellow Michael Grant during a brunch workshop at the International Symposium of Online Journalism (ISOJ).  The workshop, “Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in the Newsroom,” on July 21 was part of ISOJ’s first-ever …  Read More

WAN-IFRA North American Digital Media Awards

May 15, 2020

WAN-IFRA announces winners of the 2020 North American Digital Media Awards

By Teresa Mioli

The World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) has announced the winners of the 2020 North American Digital Media Awards. “We’re delighted to have received such top-level projects from so many different types of media organizations. It’s one of the strengths of this competition,” said Rodrigo Bonilla, regional director for the Americas at WAN-IFRA. “From small …  Read More

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Registration | October 12, 2018

Hotel options for ISOJ 2019

By Mallary Tenore

The special 20th anniversary of the International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ) will take place from April 12-13, 2019 at the Blanton Museum of Art on the University of Texas at Austin’s campus. Reserved hotel room blocks are now full at the AT&T Inn and Conference Center and the DoubleTree Suites Hotel. You can find …  Read More

Frédéric Filloux

June 13, 2018

Machine learning & journalism: how computational methods are about to change the news industry

By Marcela Canavarro*

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

Coloquio | April 30, 2013

Popular Mexican news site Animal Político seeks to eliminate dependence on government advertising

By Tania Lara

Now that they’ve reached the largest social media audience in Mexico, the next step for the popular news site Animal Político is to diversify their sources of revenue and completely avoid the publicity purchased by the Mexican government, the most important advertiser for news outlets covering politics and general information in the country. “Financial independence …  Read More

Coloquio | April 30, 2013

Sitio de noticias Animal Político busca evitar por completo la pauta publicitaria del gobierno mexicano

By Tania Lara

Ahora que han conseguido la audiencia más grande en redes sociales de México, el siguiente objetivo para el popular sitio de noticias Animal Político es diversificar sus ingresos para evitar por completo la pauta publicitaria del gobierno mexicano, el cual es el anunciante más importante para los medios que cubren política e información general en …  Read More