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Program | March 11, 2021
Turning the news into conversation: ISOJ 2021 panel focuses on community management and audience engagement
News consumption doesn’t have to be a passive experience. Readers should be able to participate in the news process, making media and journalism more interactive and accessible to all. Five community management and audience engagement directors, strategists, and innovative journalists will take part in an ISOJ panel on this topic, with a focus on how … Read More
Program | March 11, 2021
ISOJ panel on online violence against women jounalists will discuss ways to combat this global scourge
Women in journalism increasingly face online threats, harassment, violence and attacks every day. UNESCO reports that 73% of women journalists who responded to a recent global survey have experienced online violence in the course of their work, while 25% experienced physical violence, 18% were threatened by sexual violence, and 20% were attacked offline as a … Read More
Program | March 9, 2021
ISOJ panel on collaborative journalism: How the lone wolf investigative reporter joins regional & global packs
Investigative reporting used to be the work of a solitary journalist known in the newsroom as a lone wolf. Since the advent of the internet, however, the lone wolves have discovered the advantages of being part of packs — regional and global, transnational networks that take advantage of collaboration, especially in investigations of topics that … Read More
Keynote | February 26, 2021
AG Sulzberger, New York Times’ chairman and publisher, will open ISOJ 2021. Here is the lineup of keynote speakers
The 22nd International Symposium on Online Journalism will start on Monday, April 26, 2021, with a keynote session featuring A.G. Sulzberger, chairman of The New York Times Company and publisher of The New York Times. Each day of the ISOJ Online Week (April 26 – 30) will open with a keynote: Katharine Viner, editor-in-chief of … Read More
Registration | February 26, 2021
Registration is now open for ISOJ Online 2021. Sign up now for the premier online journalism conference in April
For the second time in its 22-year history, the International Symposium on Online Journalism will be held completely virtually from April 26-30, 2021, sponsored by the Knight Foundation and Google News Initiative. Registration for ISOJ, the premier global online journalism conference, is now available for free at https://isoj2021.splashthat.com. We can’t wait to bring together the … Read More
Registration | February 2, 2021
Mark your calendars for ISOJ Online 2021: The premier global journalism conference will be held from April 26-30
UPDATE: Registration for ISOJ Online 2021 is open. Sign up for free here. For the second time in its 22-year history, the International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ) will be held online only, from April 26 to 30, 2021, with tickets available for free to access all the sessions (keynotes, panels, workshops and parties) from … Read More
ISOJ2020 | August 2, 2020
Knight Center’s ISOJ Online reaches thousands of people around the world, breaks records for the 21 year-old journalism conference
It broke our hearts last March when, for the first time since 1999, we had to cancel ISOJ, our beloved International Symposium on Online Journalism, which we annually host on campus, at the University of Texas at Austin every April. It took us a couple of months to figure out what the best way would … Read More
ISOJ2020 | July 29, 2020
ISOJ celebrates 10th anniversary of #ISOJ Journal, the academic research publication of the annual conference
The year 2020 not only marks the successful transition of the International Symposium on Online Journalism to online-only venues, but also the celebration of the 10th anniversary #ISOJ Journal, the official publication that is part of the conference’s research component. Co-edited by Dr. Amy Schmitz Weiss, research chair for ISOJ, and Professor Rosental Alves, founder … Read More
Artificial Intelligence | July 28, 2020
Machine intelligence empowers journalism by giving journalists the opportunity to see what they missed, panelists say
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
ISOJ2020 | July 28, 2020
Basic principles of journalism are key to identifying authenticity of visual content
For the first time in its 21-year-history, the International Symposium of Online Journalism (ISOJ) was held only only in 2020. To watch this panel, click here. To watch other panels, click here. The increasing trend in cheap fakes and deep fakes could very well become a larger issue for the journalism industry, which is why … Read More