Research Breakfast: Trends in online journalism research
Welcome Session
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Summer Harlow, Associate Director, Knight Center
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Rosental Alves, ISOJ Founder and Chair, School of Journalism and Media, University of Texas at Austin
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Rachel Davis Mersey, Dean, Moody College of Communication, UT Austin
Keynote Session: Speak what you seek until you see what you’ve said: Creating a gutsy vision for local news
Chair: Emily Ramshaw, President & CEO, The 19th*
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Keynote Speaker: Wendi C. Thomas, Founding Editor and Publisher, MLK50: Justice Through Journalism
Panel: Press Forward: A half-billion-dollar philanthropic initiative to revitalize U.S. local news
Chair: Rachel Davis Mersey, Dean, Moody College of Communication, UT Austin
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Special presentation: John Palfrey, President, MacArthur Foundation
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Dale R. Anglin, Director, Press Forward
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Courtney Bengtson, Chief Strategy Officer, Wichita Foundation
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Jim Brady, Vice President of Journalism, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Panel: Using OSINT (Open-Source Intelligence) and SOCMINT (Social Media Intelligence) for war coverage, investigative reporting and fact-checking
Chair: Marc Lavallee, Director, Technology, Product and Strategy/Journalism, Knight Foundation
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Meg Kelly, Senior Reporter, Visual Forensics, The Washington Post
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Eoghan Macguire, Lead Editor, Bellingcat (Netherlands)
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Marc Perkins, Investigations Editor, Europe and Asia, BBC World Service (UK)
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Haley Willis, Visual Investigations journalist, The New York Times
Workshop: New Google tools for reporting and fact-checking
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Ashley Edwards, News Partner Manager, Associations and Local Partners, Google
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Mary Nahorniak, U.S. Teaching Fellow, Google News Initiative
Workshop: Strategies to optimize revenue in local news
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Courtney Lewis, Chief of Growth Programs, Institute for Nonprofit News (INN)
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Michael Ouimette, Chief Investment Officer, American Journalism Project
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Katie Rethman, Product Strategy Lead, Newspack
Panel: AI in the newsrooms: What is working now and how it is helping to improve journalism
Chair: Trei Brundrett, Senior Advisor (Consultant), American Journalism Project
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Lilian Ferreira, General Manager of Strategy and Metrics, UOL (Brazil)
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Aimee Rinehart, Senior Product Manager AI Strategy, The Associated Press
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Andrew Rodriguez Calderón, Data Project Lead, The Marshall Project
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Zach Seward, Editorial Director for AI initiatives, The New York Times
Keynote Session: Mission Impossible: Meduza’s 10 years of experience beating Kremlin censorship
Chair: Kathleen McElroy, Professor, School of Journalism and Media, UT Austin
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Keynote Speaker: Galina Timchenko, Co-founder, CEO & Publisher, Meduza (Independent Russian media outlet operating from Latvia)
Panel: How should journalism and platforms constructively address the global challenge of polarization?
Chair: Janet Coats, Managing Director, Consortium on Trust in Media and Technology
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Richard Gingras, Vice President of News, Google Inc.
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Mónica Guzmán, Senior Fellow for Public Practice, Braver Angels
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Tina Rosenberg, Co-founder, Solutions Journalism Network
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Sonal Shah, CEO, The Texas Tribune
Panel: Social media regulation, copyright changes, government subsidies: How can new policies affect journalism?
Chair: Anya Schiffrin, Director, Technology and Media, Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs
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Jeff Jarvis, Tow Professor of Journalism Innovation, Newmark Graduate School of Journalism
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Amy Mitchell, Founding Executive Director, Center for News, Technology & Innovation (CNTI)
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Victor Pickard, Professor, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
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Steve Waldman, Founder and President, Rebuild Local News
Research Breakfast: Trends in online journalism research
Chair: Vanessa D Higgins Joyce, Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Texas State University
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Amy Ross Arguedas, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (UK)
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Richard Fletcher, Director of Research, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (UK)
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Gina Masullo, Associate Director, Center for Media Engagement, UT Austin
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Sue Robinson, Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, UW-Madison
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Anya Schiffrin, Director, Technology and Media, Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs
Workshop: Building an agile newsroom to succeed in a rapidly changing future
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Becca Aaronson, Chief Product Officer & Co-founder, News Product Alliance
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Upasna Gautam, Senior Product Management Leader, Digital News Platforms, CNN
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Damon Kiesow, Knight Chair in Journalism Innovation, Missouri School of Journalism
Panel: Global Roundup Part 1: Lightning presentations about the state of journalism around the world
Chair: Dawn Garcia, Director, John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships, Stanford University
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Manasseh Azure Awuni, Founding Editor in Chief, The Fourth Estate (Ghana)
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Faisal Karimi, Founder & Director, Afghanistan Institute for Research and Media Studies (Afghanistan)
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Efrat Lachter, Investigative journalist, Channel 12 News (Israel)
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Ángel Nakamura, Multimedia Journalist & Research Fellow, UT Austin (Mexico)
Panel: Influencers/content creators and journalists: What can they learn from each other?
Chair: Adeline Hulin, Head of Unit, Media and Information Literacy and Digital Competencies, UNESCO (France)
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María Paulina Baena, Journalist and Co-Creator, La Pulla (Colombia)
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Sam Ellis, Creator and Showrunner, Search Party
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Salla-Rosa Leinonen, Producer, Yle Kioski (Finland)
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Hugo Travers, Journalist and Content Creator, HugoDécrypte (France)
Panel: Editors’ perspectives: The struggle of metro newspapers to survive and thrive in the digital era
Chair: David Ryfe, Director and Professor, School of Journalism and Media, UT Austin
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Manny García, Executive Editor, Austin American-Statesman
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Emilio Garcia-Ruiz, Editor In Chief, San Francisco Chronicle
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Katrice Hardy, Vice President & Executive Editor, The Dallas Morning News
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Nicole MacIntyre, Deputy Editor, Toronto Star (Canada)
Workshop: Balancing Journalism & Tech Related Policy with the Safeguarding of a Free Press & the Public’s Open Access to News
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Amy Mitchell, Founding Executive Director, Center for News, Technology & Innovation (CNTI)
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Connie Moon Sehat, Senior Research Fellow, Center for News, Technology & Innovation (CNTI)
Workshop: Optimizing Your YouTube Strategy for 2024 Elections
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Nicolette Scott, Strategic Partner Manager, YouTube News
Keynote Session: The business of journalism — creating a sustainable model
Chair: Evan Smith, Senior Advisor, Emerson Collective
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Keynote Speaker: Meredith Kopit Levien, President & CEO, The New York Times Company
Panel: The media and election season: Are we gonna get it right this time?
Chair: Evan Smith, Senior Advisor, Emerson Collective
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Errin Haines, Editor at Large, The 19th*
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Abby Livingston, Senior Congressional Reporter, Puck
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Charlie Sykes, Contributor/Columnist, MSNBC
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Shawna Thomas, Executive Producer, CBS News’ CBS Mornings
Panel: Global Roundup Part 2: Lightning presentations about the state of journalism around the world
Chair: Dawn Garcia, Director, John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships, Stanford University
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Hannah Ajakaiye, Journalist, FactsMatterNG (Nigeria)
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Roberson Alphonse, Head of National News, le Nouvelliste (Haiti)
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Pavla Holcová, Investigative Journalist and Founder, investigace.cz (Czechia)
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Yana Lyushnevskaya, Senior Journalist and Deputy Editor in Chief, Kyiv Bureau, BBC Monitoring (Ukraine)
Panel: AI in journalism: Ethics, opportunities and pitfalls
Chair: Josephine Lukito, Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Media, UT Austin
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Sebastián Auyanet, Audience Strategist, Impact and Newsroom Experimentation, NowThis (Uruguay)
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Nicolás Grossman, Deputy Project Director, Global Index on Responsible AI and the Global Data Barometer (Argentina)
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Andrea L. Guzman, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Northern Illinois University
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Sil Hamilton, Researcher-in-residence, Hacks/Hackers (Canada)
Closing Remarks and Honoring Journalists José Rubén Zamora and Gustavo Gorriti
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Romina Mella, Managing Editor, IDL-Reporteros (Peru)
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José Zamora, Chief Communications and Impact Officer, EXILE