Welcome Session

• Mallary Tenore, associate director, Knight Center

• Rosental Alves, ISOJ founder and chair, School of Journalism and Media, University of Texas at Austin

• Rachel Davis Mersey, dean, Moody College of Communication, University of Texas at Austin

• Sonia Feigenbaum, senior vice provost, Global Engagement, UT Austin

Keynote session: The Future of News is NOW: Adapting News to the Streaming Age

Chair: David Ryfe, director and professor, Moody College’s School of Journalism and Media, University of Texas at Austin

• Keynote Speaker: Janelle Rodriguez, executive vice president, NBC News

Panel: How can journalism incorporate AI, including generative tools like ChatGPT and Bard, to improve production and distribution of news?

Chair: Marc Lavallee, director, Technology, Product and Strategy/Journalism, Knight Foundation

• Jeremy Gilbert, Knight Chair, Digital Media Strategy, Northwestern University

• Sam Han, director, AI/ML and Zeus Technology, The Washington Post

• Aimee Rinehart, program manager, Local News & AI, The Associated Press

• Sisi Wei, editor-in-chief, The Markup

Panel: The future of opinion journalism: How op-ed sections have evolved in the digital era and what lies ahead

Chair: Michael Bolden, CEO and executive director, American Press Institute

• Nancy Ancrum, editorial page editor, Miami Herald

• James Dao, editorial page editor, The Boston Globe

• Zeba Khan, deputy editorial page editor, The San Francisco Chronicle

• Kathleen Kingsbury, opinion editor, The New York Times

ICFJ Disarming Disinformation announcement

• Cristina Tardáguila, senior program director, International Center for Journalists (ICFJ)

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#ISOJ Journal peer-reviewed research panel

Chair: Celeste González de Bustamante, professor and associate dean, Moody College of Communication, UT Austin

• Subramaniam (Subbu) Vincent, director, Journalism and Media Ethics, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University

• Raizza Bello, independent journalist and researcher, (Philippines)

• Robbin Dagle, lecturer, Department of Communication, Ateneo de Manila University (Philippines)

• Marcus Funk, associate professor, Sam Houston State University

• Ayleen Cabas-Mijares, assistant professor, Journalism and Media Studies , Marquette University

• Tracie Powell, founder, The Pivot Fund

Keynote session: Journalism in the Era of Business Model Evolution: Imagining the End State

Chair: Sewell Chan, editor-in-chief, The Texas Tribune

• Keynote Speaker: Jon Kelly, co-founder and editor-in-chief, Puck

Global round up: Lightning presentations on the state of the news media around the world

Chair: Ann Marie Lipinski, curator, Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University

• Fahim Abed, independent journalist/former NY Times reporter in Kabul (Afghanistan)

• Adefemi Akinsanya, correspondent and anchor, Arise News (Nigeria)

• Sheikh Sabiha Alam, senior reporter, Prothom Alo (Bangladesh)

• Pinar Ersoy, Istanbul editor, BBC Monitoring (Turkey)

• Bopha Phorn, independent journalist(Cambodia)

• Taras Prokopyshyn, publisher and CEO,The Ukrainians Media (Ukraine)

• José Zamora, chief communications and impact officer,Exile Content (Guatemala)

Panel: Lying in politics, weaponizing fake news and attacking journalists: What have we learned so far and how to react to the infodemic?

Chair: Anya Schiffrin, director, Technology, Media & Communication specialization, Columbia University

• Bill Adair,founder, PolitiFact, and Knight Professor, Duke University

• Sérgio Dávila, editor-in-chief, Folha de S.Paulo (Brazil)

• Khaya Himmelman, reporter, The Messenger

• Glenn Kessler, editor and chief writer, The Washington Post's Fact Checker

Keynote session

Chair: Evan Smith, co-founder and senior advisor, The Texas Tribune and senior advisor, Emerson Collective

• Keynote Speaker: Joe Kahn, executive editor, The New York Times

Panel: How to improve the coverage of the climate crisis and avoid the “Don’t Look up” scenario

Chair: John Schwartz, professor of practice, School of Journalism and Media, UT Austin

• Manuela Andreoni, climate reporter, The New York Times (Brazil)

• Darryl Fears, environmental justice reporter, The Washington Post

• Vernon Loeb, executive editor, Inside Climate News

• Michael Webber, Josey Centennial Professor in Energy Resources,UT Austin

Panel: The Local News Movement: Philanthropic investments to networks and tools to create sustainable models

Chair: Jim Brady, vice president of Journalism, Knight Foundation

• Erin Millar, co-founder and CEO, Indiegraf (Canada)

• Michael Ouimette, SVP, strategy & startups, The American Journalism Project

• Alana Rocha, Rural News Network editor, Institute for Nonprofit News

• Mary Walter-Brown, founder and CEO, News Revenue Hub

Keynote Session: The future of storytelling on your face

Chair: Robert Hernandez, professor of professional practice, School for Communication and Journalism USC Annenberg

• Keynote Speaker: Yusuf Omar, co-founder, Seen.tv (Australia)

Panel: Newsletters, podcasts, text messages, push alerts: Are news orgs moving out of social-media dependency?

Chair: Sara Fischer, media reporter and author of Media Trends newsletter, Axios

• David Cohn, chief strategy officer and co-founder, Subtext at Advance Publications

• Coleen O'Lear, head of curation and platforms, The Washington Post

• Zainab Shah, director of engagement and audience, THE CITY

Panel: How to respond to news avoidance and reconnect with audiences through new approaches

Chair: LaSharah S. Bunting, CEO and executive director, Online News Association (ONA)

• Jay Rosen, associate professor, New York University author, PressThink

• Dmitry Shishkin, independent media consultant, (United Kingdom)

• Talia Stroud, founder and director, Center for Media Engagement, UT Austin

• Ben Toff, senior research fellow, Reuters Institute (UK)

Panel: Exile journalism: Forced out of their countries, journalists use technology to report from abroad and have impact back home

Chair: Kathleen McElroy, professor, School of Journalism and Media, UT Austin

• Olga Churakova, independent journalist and podcast host, “Hi, You’re a Foreign Agent” (Russia)

• Carlos Fernando Chamorro Barrios, founder and editor, Confidencial (Nicaragua)

• Danny Fenster, editor-at-large, Frontier Myanmar (Myanmar)

• Juan Luis Font, journalist and radio host, ConCriterio (Guatemala)