Welcome Session

• Mallary Tenore, associate director, Knight Center

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

• Jay Bernhardt, dean, Moody College of Communication, University of Texas at Austin

• Alberto Ibargüen, President and CEO, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

Opening panel: Coming of Age: Nonprofit online journalism attracts big investments and creates sustainable models

Chair: Evan Smith, co-founder and CEO, The Texas Tribune

• Mukhtar Ibrahim, publisher & CEO, Sahan Journal

• Imtiaz Patel, CEO, The Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism/The Baltimore Banner

• Ann Stern, president & CEO, Houston Endowment

• Nykia Wright, president & CEO, Chicago Sun-Times

Keynote session: Challenges and opportunities for journalism in times of crises, disinformation and digital disruption

Chair: Kathleen McElroy, director, Moody College’s School of Journalism and Media, University of Texas at Austin

• Keynote Speaker: Katrice Hardy, executive editor, Dallas Morning News

Panel: Hype or not, how and when will web3 (blockchain/NFTs) and metaverse (AR/VR/XR) impact journalism?

Chair: Emily Bell, professor & director, Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia Journalism School

• Maria Bustillos, editor-in-chief, Popula.com

• Jarno M. Koponen, head of AI & Personalization, Yle News Lab (Finland)

• Ray Soto, senior director, emerging tech, Gannett, USA Today Network

Google Tools for Journalists: Lunch workshops offered by Google News Initiative

• English Workshop:

  Marco Túlio Pires, News Lab lead, Brazil, Google

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• Spanish Workshop:

  Juan Manuel Lucero, News Lab lead for Spanish Latin America, Google

News and AI (#ISOJ Journal peer-reviewed research panel)

Chair: Amy Schmitz Weiss, ISOJ research chair, San Diego State University

• Co-Chair/Discussant: Seth Lewis, professor, director of Journalism Program, University of Oregon

• Patrick Howe, Christine Robertson, Lindsay Grace, and Foaad Khosmood, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo & University of Miami: Exploring Reporter-Desired Features for an AI-Generated Legislative News Tip Sheet

• Daniel Trielli and Nicholas Diakopoulos,Northwestern University: Algorithmic Agenda Setting: The Shape of Search Media During the 2020 US Election

• Colin Porlezza and Giulia Ferri, Institute of Media and Journalism IMeG, University Della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland: The Missing Piece: Ethics and the Ontological Boundaries of Automated Journalism

Factchecking en español: Latin America, Spain and a new initiative for the United States’ Spanish-speaking communities

Chair: Bill Adair, Knight Professor, Duke University, creator, PolitiFact

• Tamoa Calzadilla, director, ElDetector, Univision

• Clara Jimenez Cruz, cofounder and CEO, Maldita.es (Spain)

• Natalia Guerrero, managing editor, Factchequeado

• Laura Zommer, executive director, Chequeado (Argentina)

Keynote session: Key Questions for Journalists Seeking to Reinvent Journalism for our Digital Age

Chair: Sue Cross, executive director and CEO, Institute for Nonprofit News

• Keynote Speaker: Richard Gingras, global vice president of news, Google

Panel: Subscriptions, events and multiple products: Strategies to diversify revenue streams of news organizations

Chair: Felicitas Carrique, executive director, News Product Alliance

• April Brumley Hinkle, chief revenue officer, The Texas Tribune

• Janine Warner, cofounder, SembraMedia, ICFJ Knight Fellow

Panel: Subsidies and Regulations: How government initiatives may affect journalism and the digital media ecosystem

Chair: Emily Bell, professor & director, Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia Journalism School

• David Skok, CEO and editor-in-chief, The Logic, (Canada)

• Sarah Stonbely, research director, Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University

• Steven Waldman,president and co-founder, Report for America

Research breakfast

Chair: Amy Schmitz Weiss, ISOJ research chair and professor, School of Journalism & Media Studies, San Diego State University

• Jessica Renee Collier, postdoctoral research fellow, Center for Media Engagement, UT Austin

• Gina M. Masullo, associate professor/associate director, Center for Media Engagement, UT Austin

• Caroline Murray, research associate, Center for Media Engagement, UT Austin

• Talia Stroud, professor/director, Center for Media Engagement, UT Austin

Breakfast workshop: The need for digital provenance: How the Content Authenticity Initiative is addressing mis/disinformation

• Santiago Lyon, CAI’s Head of Advocacy and Education, Adobe

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Keynote Session: News: What is it, who is it for, and how can we rethink it for the digital era?

Chair: Neil Chase, CEO, CalMatters

• Keynote speaker: Gina Chua, incoming executive editor, Semafor

Panel: Diversity in newsrooms and in the news: Cultural change, content audits and other initiatives

Chair: Manny Garcia, executive-editor, Austin American-Statesman

• Charo Henríquez, editor, newsroom development and support, The New York Times

• Flavia Lima, editor of diversity, Folha de S.Paulo (Brazil)

• Keith Woods, chief diversity officer, NPR

Panel: Recreating the local news ecosystem with new models, networking and collaboration

Chair: Jim Brady, vice president/journalism, Knight Foundation

• Ken Doctor, CEO and founder, Lookout Santa Cruz

• Liz Dwyer, managing director, Word In Black

• Jeff Elgie, CEO, Village Media (Canada)

• Jamie Stockwell, executive editor, Axios Local

Tools and resources for local news organizations – Lunch workshop, offered by Knight Foundation

Chair: Karen Rundlet, director/journalism, Knight Foundation

• Fernando Diaz,Publisher Solutions, Newspack by Automattic

• Emily Dresslar, director, Texas Tribune’s RevLab

• Lisa Heyamoto, director of teaching & learning, LION Publishers

Keynote Session: The role of journalism when democracy is at risk

Chair: Borja Echevarría, managing editor, El País (Spain)

• Keynote speaker: Jorge Ramos, news anchor, Univision Noticias

Lightning sessions: Online journalism and press freedom in Asia and Latin America

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

• Bao Choy, independent journalist, Hong Kong

• Pranav Dixit, technology reporter, BuzzFeed News, India

• Jorge Caraballo Cordovez, journalist, Colombia

• María Lilly Delgado, independent journalist, Nicaragua

• Patricia Laya, bureau chief, Bloomberg News, Venezuela

• José Luis Sanz, correspondent, El Faro, El Salvador

• Natalia Viana, cofounder and executive director, Agência Pública, Brazil

Panel: Mental health and the wellbeing of journalists in an era of online harassment, extreme polarization, denialism and pandemic

Chair: Avery Holton, chair, Department of Communication, University of Utah

• Valerie Belair-Gagnon, director, Minnesota Journalism Center, University of Minnesota

• Elana Newman, McFarlin Professor of Psychology, University of Tulsa, research director, Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

• Luisa Ortiz Pérez, executive director & cofounder, Vita-Activa.org

• Hannah Storm, founding director, Headlines Network (U.K.)

Panel: Audio journalism and social audio: Listen up, it’s a new frontier of digital storytelling

Chair: Tamar Charney, editorial strategist, formerly with NPR

• Sarah Feldberg, editor for emerging products and audio, San Francisco Chronicle

• Nina Gregory, head of news and media publishers, Clubhouse

• Rebeca Ibarra, host and producer, The Refresh, Insider

• Maggie Penman, executive producer, Post Reports, The Washington Post