Keynote speaker: A.G. Sulzberger

Chair: Alberto Ibargüen, president & CEO, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

• A.G. Sulzberger, chairman & publisher, The New York Times

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Workshop: Lessons from the Global South: How innovation has helped newsrooms around the world

• Ludovic Blecher, head of DNI Innovation Fund, Google

• Styli Charalambous, CEO, The Daily Maverick, South Africa

• Innbal Menashri, data project manager, Haaretz, Israel

• Tai Nalon, co-founder, Aos Fatos, Brazil

• John-Allan Namu, CEO, Africa Uncensored, Kenya

• Maria Li, chief operating officer, Tech in Asia, Singapore

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Panel: Collaborative journalism networks: the lone wolf investigative reporter joins regional & global packs

Chair: Marina Walker Guevara, executive editor, Pulitzer Center

• Scilla Alecci, reporter and coordinator of European & Asian partners, ICIJ , Italy

• Carlos Eduardo Huertas, founder & director, CONNECTAS (Latin American network) , Colombia

• Alia Ibrahim, founder and chairman, Daraj , Lebanon

• Purity Mukami, reporter, Finance Uncovered (UK) & The Elephant , Kenya

Panel: Community management and audience engagement: Turning the news into a conversation

Chair: Irving Washington, executive director & CEO, Online News Association (ONA)

• Ashley Alvarado, director of community engagement, Southern California Public Radio (KPCC + LAist)

• Darryl Holliday, news lab director and co-founder, City Bureau

• Nisha Chittal, director of audience and engagement, Vox Media

• Bobby Blanchard, assistant director for audience, The Texas Tribune

• Annie Z. Yu, director of engagement, Politico

Keynote speaker: Katharine Viner

Chair: Emilio Garcia-Ruiz, editor-in-chief, San Francisco Chronicle

• Katharine Viner, editor-in-chief, The Guardian

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Workshop: How to develop secure communication with sources and a drop box for whistleblowers

• Harlo Holmes, Freedom of the Press Foundation

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Panel: Facing the ‘infodemic:’ How journalists covering COVID-19 can fight mis/disinformation

Chair: Maryn McKenna, journalist, author and senior fellow, Emory University’s Center for the Study of Human Health

• Joan Donovan, research director, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics & Public Policy at Harvard University

• Heidi Larson, director, The Vaccine Confidence Project at the London

• Jessica Malaty Rivera, science communication lead, The COVID Tracking Project

• Brandy Zadrozny, reporter, NBC News

#ISOJ Journal- Peer Reviewed Research Panel 1: Capturing journalism’s evolution: From algorithms to misinformation

Chair: Amy Schmitz Weiss, ISOJ Research Chair & #ISOJ Journal co-editor, San Diego State University

• Silvia DalBen and Amanda Chevtchouk Jurno, Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil), More than code: The complex network that involves journalism production in five Brazilian robot initiatives.

• Amber Hinsley, Texas State University, Cued up: How audience demographics influence reliance on news cues, confirmation bias and confidence in identifying misinformation.

• Burton Speakman, Kennesaw State University, and Marcus Funk, Sam Houston State University, What’s on your page, on your pa-a-a-ge: Zombie content and paywall policies in American community newspapers, 2015-2020.

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Keynote Session: Reinventing online political coverage

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

• Anna Palmer & Jake Sherman, co-founders, Punchbowl News

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Workshop: Going beyond advanced search: Google tools for journalists

• Juan Manuel Lucero, Google News Lab (workshop en español)

• Mary Nahorniak, Google News Initiative Teaching Fellow (workshop in English)

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Panel: Online violence against women journalists: How to combat this global scourge?

Chair: Elisa Lees Muñoz, executive-director, IWMF

• Ferial Haffajee, associate editor, Daily Maverick, South Africa

• Gisela Pérez de Acha, reporter at the investigative reporting program, UC Berkeley

• Julie Posetti , global director of research, ICFJ

• Ela Stapley, digital security advisor and founder, Siskin Labs , U.K.

Immersive journalism: How photogrammetry, VR and AR are adding new dimensions to storytelling

Chair: Robert Hernandez, professor of professional practice, University of Southern California

• Mint Boonyapanachoti, creative technologist, The New York Times

• Thomas Flynn, cultural heritage lead, Sketchfab , U.K.

• Retha Hill , professor of practice & director of the New Media Innovation and Entrepreneurship Lab, Arizona State University

• Ben Kreimer, independent journalism technologist

• Elite Truong, director of strategic initiatives, The Washington Post

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Keynote Session: Reimagining news for Black Americans: Paving a path toward equity in journalism

Chair: Amanda Zamora, co founder & publisher, The 19th*

• Lauren Williams & Akoto Ofori-Atta, co-founders, Capital B

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Workshop: Covering climate change: Best practices for how to localize a planet-sized story

• Amal Ahmed, reporter, Texas Observer

• Frank Mungeam, chief innovation officer, Local Media Association

• Donovan Quintero, reporter, Navajo Times

• Mark Schleifstein, reporter, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune Times

• Bernadette Woods Placky, program director, Climate Matters

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Panel: It’s not the old op-ed page anymore: The growth of opinion in online journalism

Chair: Katie Kingsbury, opinion editor, The New York Times

• Karen Attiah, global opinions editor, The Washington Post

• Sewell Chan, editorial page editor, The Los Angeles Times

• Matthew Yglesias , writer and editor, Slow Boring

Panel: Cracking the code for the new local news through networking and collaboration

Chair: Karen Rundlet, director of journalism program, Knight Foundation

• Sarabeth Berman, CEO, American Journalism Project (AJP)

• Sue Cross, executive director and CEO, Institute for Nonprofit News (INN)

• Emilee Gilpin, managing editor, Indiginews , Canada

• Lisa Heyamoto, GNI Startups Lab Senior Program Manager, LION Publishers

• Mukhtar Ibrahim, founder, SAHAN Journal

• Mazin Sidahmed, co-executive director, Documented

Keynote Session: Marty Baron

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

• Marty Baron, former executive editor, The Washington Post

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Workshop: How to work towards a news ecosystem that cleanly separates news from opinion

• Subramaniam (Subbu) Vincent, director of journalism and media ethics program, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University

• Patricia Lopez, journalist and editorial writer, The Star Tribune

• Kate Harloe, NewsQ

• Connie Moon Sehat, News Quality Initiative

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Panel: Race and equity in the news: Reporting in service of communities and with the URL (uplift, respect and love) lens

Chair: Sara Lomax-Reese, co-founder, URL Media, president & CEO, WURD Radio

• Cierra Hinton, executive-director & publisher, Scalawag

• Mitra Kalita, co-founder, URL Media

• Macollvie J. Neel, managing editor, The Hatian Times

• Nancy San Martin, freelance journalist, contributor at palabra. NAHJ

#ISOJ Journal – Peer Reviewed Research Panel 2: Challenging the status quo: New pathways to understanding news audiences today

Chair: Amy Schmitz Weiss, ISOJ Research Chair & #ISOJ Journal co-editor, San Diego State University

• Mark Poepsel, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Thematic analysis of journalism engagement in practice.

• Jessica Retis, University of Arizona, and Lourdes M. Cueva Chacón, San Diego State University, Mapping digital-native U.S. Latinx news: Beyond geographical boundaries, language barriers, and hyper-fragmentation of audiences.

• Ryan Wallace, UT Austin, The language of online news: How science and health reporting in English impacts Latinx Audiences.

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