22nd International Symposium on Online Journalism
A program of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at The University of Texas at Austin
Moody College of Communication’s School of Journalism and Media
April 26-30, 2021
Thanks to our sponsors:
Here is the #ISOJ2021 program. See the day-by-day schedule below or all days together here
All times are U.S. Central, GMT/UTC -5
This schedule is subject to change. Come back to this page for updates.
Monday, April 26
10:00 - 10:05a
Welcome Session
- Rosental Alves, ISOJ founder and chair, Moody College of Communication School of Journalism & Media
- Jay Berndhardt, dean, Moody College of Communication
- Amy Schmitz Weiss, ISOJ research chair, San Diego State University
10:05 - 11:00a
Keynote Session: A.G. Sulzberger, chairman & publisher, The New York Times
- A.G. Sulzberger, chairman & publisher, The New York Times
- Alberto Ibargüen, president & ceo, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
11:30a - 12:30p
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)
1:00 - 2:15p
Panel: Collaborative journalism networks: the lone wolf investigative reporter joins regional & global packs
- 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)
4:00 - 5:15p
Panel: Community management and audience engagement: Turning the news into a conversation
- 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
5:30 - 7:00p
Welcome party/happy hour
Sponsored by the John S. Knight Fellowships at Stanford University
Bring your own drink and finger food, and join ISOJers from around the world during this online social event. Find your friends and colleagues, make new friends, and mingle and network as you would have done if ISOJ were in person this year!
Tuesday, April 27
10:00 - 11:00a
Keynote Session: Katharine Viner, editor-in-chief, The Guardian
- Katharine Viner, editor-in-chief, The Guardian
- Emilio Garcia-Ruiz, editor-in-chief, San Francisco Chronicle
11:30a - 12:30p
Workshop: How to develop secure communication with sources and a drop box for whistleblowers
- Harlo Holmes, Freedom of the Press Foundation
1:00 - 2:15p
Panel: Facing the ‘infodemic:’ How journalists covering COVID-19 can fight mis/disinformation
- 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
4:00 - 5:15p
#ISOJ Journal- Peer Reviewed Research Panel 1: Capturing journalism’s evolution: From algorithms to misinformation
- Amy Schmitz Weiss, San Diego State University, ISOJ Research Chair & #ISOJ Journal co-editor
- 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.
Wednesday, April 28
10:00 - 11:00a
Keynote Session: Reinventing online political coverage
- Anna Palmer & Jake Sherman, co-founders, Punchbowl News
- Evan Smith, ceo & co-founder, The Texas Tribune
11:30a - 12:30p
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)
1:00 - 2:15p
Panel: Online violence against women journalists: How to combat this global scourge?
- 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.)
4:00 - 5:15p
Immersive journalism: How photogrammetry, VR and AR are adding new dimensions to storytelling
- 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
Thursday, April 29
10:00 - 11:00a
Keynote Session: Reimagining news for Black Americans: Paving a path toward equity in journalism
- Lauren Williams & Akoto Ofori-Atta, co-founders, Capital B
- Amanda Zamora, co founder & publisher, The 19th*
11:30a - 12:30p
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, lead, LMA Covering Climate Collaborative
- Donovan Quintero , reporter, Navajo Times
- Mark Schleifstein , reporter, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune Times
- Bernadette Woods Placky, program director, Climate Matters
1:00 - 2:15p
Panel: It’s not the old op-ed page anymore: The growth of opinion in online journalism
- 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
4:00 - 5:15p
Panel: Cracking the code for the new local news through networking and collaboration
- 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
Friday, April 30
10:00 - 11:00a
Keynote Session: Marty Baron, former executive editor, The Washington Post
- Marty Baron, former executive editor, The Washington Post
- Kathleen McElroy, director of the School of Journalism and Media, UT Austin
11:30a - 12:30p
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
1:00 - 2:15p
Panel: Race and equity in the news: Reporting in service of communities and with the URL (uplift, respect and love) lens
- Sara Lomax-Reese, co-founder, URL Media, president & CEO, WURD Radio
- Cierra Hinton, executive-director & publisher, Scalawag
- Mitra Kalita, co-founder URL Media, founder, EpicenterNYC
- Macollvie J. Neel, managing editor, The Hatian Times
- Nancy San Martin, freelance journalist, contributor at palabra. NAHJ
4:00 - 5:15p
#ISOJ Journal - Peer Reviewed Research Panel 2: Challenging the status quo: New pathways to understanding news audiences today
- Amy Schmitz Weiss, San Diego State University, ISOJ Research Chair & #ISOJ Journal co-editor
- 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, University of Texas at Austin, The language of online news: How science and health reporting in English impacts Latinx Audiences
Special announcement: ISOJ 2021 Top Research Paper Award
5:30p - 7:00p
Farewell party/happy hour
Bring your own drink and finger food, and join ISOJers from around the world during this online social event, which will close out ISOJ. Find your friends and colleagues, make new friends, and mingle and network as you would have done if ISOJ were in person this year!