Keynote speaker: Dave Winer
Keynote speaker: Henry Blodget
Chair: Mike Wilson, editor, Dallas Morning News
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Henry Blodget, co-founder, CEO, and editorial director, Insider, Inc
Can media really rebuild trust with audiences?
Chair and presenter: Tom Rosenstiel, executive director, American Press Institute
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Rob Bennett, editor-in-chief & general manager, global content operations, Microsoft News
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Joy Mayer, director, Trusting News
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Mizell Stewart, senior director of talent, partnerships and news strategy, Gannett and the USA TODAY Network
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Charles Sykes, editor-in-chief, The Bulwark
Automation and the future of fact checking
Chair and presenter: Bill Adair, Knight Professor of Journalism & Public Policy at Duke University, creator of PolitiFact
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Pablo Fernández, director of editorial innovation, Chequeado, Argentina
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Day-young Oh, chief of Team Fact Check, JTBC TV, South Korea
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Katie Sanders, managing editor, PolitiFact
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Sérgio Spagnuolo, ICFJ TruthBuzz Fellow, Brazil
Keynote speaker: Millie Tran
Chair: Kathleen McElroy, director and professor, School of Journalism at University of Texas at Austin
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Millie Tran, deputy off-platform editor, New York Times
Subscriptions and memberships: Reinventing the relationship with your audience
Chair and presenter: Emily Goligoski, research director, Membership Puzzle Project
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Tim Griggs, digital media consultant/advisor, leader of Facebook’s Local News Subscriptions Accelerator
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Tony Haile, CEO, Scroll
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Jason Tuohey, senior deputy managing editor for audience engagement and digital platforms, Boston Globe
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Amanda Zamora, chief audience officer, Texas Tribune
RESEARCH PANEL: Digital Media and Democracy in the Americas
Chair: Eugenia Mitchelstein, associate professor and director of the communication degree, University of San Andrés, Argentina
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A case of reverse- agenda setting: How 2018’s FIFA World, cup coverage reduced media reporting of Uruguayan budget bill’s yearly revision
Matías Dodel, Federico Comesaña & Daniel Blanc, Universidad Católica del Uruguay
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Mixing the Old with the New through Digital Media: Political Representation, Race, and Millennial Voices in a changing Cuba
Shearon Roberts, Xavier University of Louisiana
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Exposing the President: The political angle of a natural disaster in Chile,
Magdalena Saldana, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile/Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD)
Ok, Google, Alexa and Siri: Play the news. Can you really help journalism in the podcast boom?
Chair: Debbie Hiott, general manager, KUT & KUTX
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Kourtney Bitterly, lead research & development, New York Times
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Steve Lickteig, executive producer, podcasts and audio, NBC News and MSNBC
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Irene Noguchi, executive producer of Today, Explained podcast, Vox Media
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Jessica Stahl, director of audio, The Washington Post
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Emily Withrow, director, Quartz Bots Studio
Keynote speaker: Dave Winer
Chair: Rebecca MacKinnon, co-founder and board member, Global Voices Online
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Dave Winer, software developer and editor of the Scripting News weblog, a pioneering developer of weblogs, RSS, and podcasting
The impact of artificial intelligence and machine learning on journalism
Chair and presenter: Nicholas Diakopoulos, assistant professor, Northwestern University
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Clay Eltzroth, product manager, Bloomberg
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Lisa Gibbs, director of news partnerships, Associated Press
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Ling Jiang, senior data scientist, Washington Post
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Michael Morisy, chief executive, Muckrock
Saving local news in the U.S.: Can we have sustainable online journalism in local markets?
Chair: Jennifer Preston, vice president, journalism, Knight Foundation
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Jim Brady, CEO and founder, Spirited Media
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Ryan Nave, editor-in-chief, Mississippi Today
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Tasneem Raja, co-founder and executive editor, The Tyler Loop
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John Thornton, venture capitalist, co-founder of Texas Tribune and the American Journalism Project
Keynote speaker: Matt Thompson
Chair: Jay Rosen, journalism professor, New York University, and director, Membership Puzzle Project
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Matt Thompson, editor-in-chief, Center for Investigative Reporting (and a contributing editor at The Atlantic)
Lightning presentations
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From horizontal to vertical: news shows for mobile consumption
Selymar Colón, vice president and editor in chief, digital news, Univision Communications
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Why investing in independent media is a bet worth making
Felipe Estefan, investment director, Luminate
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Highlights from the pre-ISOJ Hackathon on building tools to measure and boost trust in news
Andrew Gibson, front-end engineer, Texas Tribune
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“Strategies to confront online violence”: Five takeaways from pre-ISOJ workshop
Nadine Hoffman, deputy director, International Women’s Media Foundation
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Accelerating news startups in Latin America
Janine Warner, ICFJ Knight Fellow and co-founder of SembraMedia, and Luis Botello, deputy vice president, New Initiatives and Impact, ICFJ
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Spatial Journalism: The intersection of local news and location-based technologies
Amy Schmitz Weiss, associate professor, San Diego State University
Global roundup: Journalism in the age of authoritarians, populists and polarization
Chair: Kathleen Kingsbury, deputy editorial page editor, New York Times
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Cinthia Membreño, director of digital strategy, Confidencial, Nicaragua
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Susan Comrie, investigative journalist, amaBhungane Centre for Investigative Journalism, South Africa
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Patricia Campos Mello, reporter and columnist, Folha de S. Paulo, Brazil
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Julett Pineda, reporter, Efecto Cocuyo, Venezuela
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Blanka Zöldi, journalist, Direkt36, Hungary
Covering an online president: White House press corps in the age of Twitter
Chair: Evan Smith, co-founder and CEO, Texas Tribune
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Yamiche Alcindor, White House correspondent, PBS NewsHour
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Kimberly Atkins, Washington correspondent, WBUR
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Jonathan Lemire, White House reporter, Associated Press
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Eli Stokols, White House reporter, Los Angeles Times