Connie Moon Sehat

Senior Research Fellow, Center for News, Technology & Innovation

Sehat is a speaker at the 25th ISOJ, happening from April 12 – 13, 2024, both online and in person at the University of Texas at Austin.

Connie Moon Sehat is a senior research fellow at the Center for News, Technology & Innovation. As a news and internet researcher, her work focuses on questions related to online journalism, information, and conversational quality. Dr. Sehat has focused on the intersections of technology and democratic life for over twenty-five years, including the direction of projects such as the News Quality Initiative. Her doctorate from Rice University specialized in twentieth century German history, with minor fields in Enlightenment Europe and Modern Japan, while her first job out of college allowed her to develop software for the International Space Station. She has served as a senior fellow for Media, Entertainment and Sport Industries at the World Economic Forum and also has previously worked for The Carter Center, Emory University, and The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. Sehat is currently principal investigator of the NSF-supported Analysis, Response, and Toolkit for Trust (ARTT) project.

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Director, News Quality Initiative; Senior Fellow — Media, Entertainment and Sport Industries, World Economic Forum

Twitter: @msconnie
Connie Moon Sehat leads the News Quality Initiative, an effort by the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and supported by Hacks/Hackers. She has focused on the intersections of technology and democratic life for the past twenty years, including the direction of projects like NewsFrames at Global Voices, the New Orleans Research Collaborative, and ELMO (election, human rights, and health monitoring). Her doctorate from Rice University specialized in twentieth century German history, with minor fields in Enlightenment Europe and Modern Japan. Dr. Sehat’s first job out of college allowed her to develop software for the International Space Station. Since then, she has also worked for The Carter Center, Emory University, and The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.