A program of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin
Speakers 2022
ISOJ is back and better than before! On April 1 – 2, 2022, for the first time in our 23-year history, the International Symposium on Online Journalism will be hybrid, with the traditional in-person conference at the campus of the University of Texas at Austin and also online, with innovative tools to facilitate the participation of virtual attendees. Join editors, producers, executives, and academics from around the world in our keynote sessions, panels, and social networking events centered on the evolution of online journalism.
@GinaSKChua
A longtime newsroom manager with a career spanning three decades and five countries, Gina Chua has worked in print, radio, television and real-time electronic media, with a broad range of experience, including as a foreign correspondent and in business journalism, general news, data and graphics, newspaper design, strategic planning, project management, and newsroom budgets, operations, safety and security and administration. Read more
@richardgingras
Richard Gingras is Vice President, News at Google. In that role Gingras guides Google’s strategies in how it surfaces news on Google search, Google News, and its smart devices. He also oversees Google’s effort to enable a healthy, open ecosystem for quality journalism, which includes Subscribe with Google, Google’s Tools for Journalists, Accelerated Mobile Pages and various other efforts to enable journalists and news providers to be effective and sustainable. Read more
@KatriceRHardy
Katrice Hardy is the Executive Editor of the Dallas Morning News. Before that, she was the executive editor of the IndyStar and Midwest Regional Editor for USA Today Network. Katrice joined USA Today Network in 2016, where she started as the top editor of the Greenville News and then took on responsibilities as South Regional editor for the Network, overseeing news organizations in South Carolina, North Carolina, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Virginia. Read more
@jorgeramosnews
Jorge Ramos has been called “Hispanic TV’s No. 1 correspondent” by The Wall Street Journal. Time magazine put him on one of the covers for its “100 most influential people in the world” of 2015. Ramos has been anchoring Noticiero Univision since 1986, when at age 28 he became one of the youngest national news anchors in the history of American television. Read more
Knight Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy
@BillAdairDuke
Bill Adair is the Knight Professor of Journalism and Public Policy at Duke University and the creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning website PolitiFact. He is writing a book about lying in politics. Read more
ISOJ Founder and Chair, Professor at the School of Journalism, UT Austin
Founder and director, Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas
@Rosental
Rosental Alves began his academic career in the United States in March 1996, after 27 years as a professional journalist, including seven years as a journalism professor in Brazil. He moved to Austin from Rio de Janeiro, where he was the managing editor and member of the board of directors of Jornal do Brasil, one of the most important Brazilian newspapers. Read more
@journoscholar
Dr. Valérie Bélair-Gagnon is Assistant Professor at the Hubbard School of Journalism & Mass Communication and Director of the Minnesota Journalism Center. Her research interests are media innovation, engagement, sociology of work, well-being, and the business of journalism. Read more
Founding Director, Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School
@emilybell
Emily Bell is Founding Director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School, Leonard Tow professor of Journalism, and a leading thinker, commentator and strategist on digital journalism. Read more
Dean, the Moody College of Communication at The University of Texas at Austin
@jaybernhardt Dr. Jay Bernhardt (Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1999; M.P.H., Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 1994) is the 6th dean of the Moody College of Communication at The University of Texas at Austin, one of the largest and highest ranked colleges of communication in the country. Read more
@ibogost
Ian Bogost is a writer and award-winning game designer. He is the Director of Film & Media Studies and Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, a Founding Partner at Persuasive Games, and a Contributing Writer at The Atlantic. Read more
Vice President of Journalism, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
@jimbrady
Jim Brady is the Vice President of Journalism for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Brady, who joined Knight in August 2021, is a longtime digital media innovator whose experience ranges from leading major brands such as washingtonpost.com and Digital First Media to starting a company that built and sold local news sites in three cities. Read more
@mariabustillos
Journalist, editor and information activist. Maria is the founding editor of Popula, an alternative news and culture magazine. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Harper’s, and The Guardian. Read more
@TamoaC
Tamoa Calzadilla joined Univision News in 2015 as senior investigative journalist. She plays a key role in the digital data and investigative team. Most recently, she became the director of ‘elDetector’ Univision’s fact-checking platform and the first Spanish-language fact-checking platform in the U.S. Read more
@jorgecaraballo
Jorge Caraballo is a journalist and a 2022 Harvard Nieman fellow. Before that, he worked for four years as the Growth Editor at Radio Ambulante –the most popular documentary podcast in Spanish, and the only one in that language distributed by NPR. Read more
@felicarrique
Feli is an Argentinian journalist and product thinker working at the intersection of media, technology, and sustainability. In her previous role as the Innovation Director at SembraMedia, she worked with news organizations across Latin America, Spain, and the United States to promote innovation and led product design and systems development for the organization. Read more
@TamarCharney
Tamar Charney is an editorial strategist specializing in how the public media network can work together to provide journalism on the platforms where people listen, read, and watch. Read more
@chaseneil
Neil Chase is the chief executive officer at CalMatters, the nonprofit newsroom explaining California policy and politics. He was previously executive editor of The Mercury News and the East Bay Times in the San Francisco Bay Area. Read more
@Baochoy
Choy Yuk-ling, who also uses the name Bao Choy, is an investigative journalist and video producer based in Hong Kong. She has covered stories about politics, human rights and corruption, including cross-border bribery and illegal offshore companies, as well as the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests. Read more
@suecross
Sue Cross leads the Institute for Nonprofit News, a network of more than 360 independent, nonprofit news media organizations in North America. She joined INN in 2015 to build its emerging media network and advance social enterprise models for investigative and public service journalism. Read more
@thefuturewasnow
Fernando Diaz is a consultant for Newspack, supporting publishers in their efforts to better serve their communities and operate sustainably. He is also currently teaching data and investigative journalism at the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communication at Northwestern University. Read more
@PranavDixit
Pranav Dixit is a technology reporter at BuzzFeed News based in New Delhi and a 2022 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. He covers the intersection of technology and culture in India, a key market for tech companies, for international readers. Read more
@kdoctor
Ken Doctor is a go-to analyst, speaker and consultant on news business models, through Newsonomics, his own company and website, and Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab. Extensively quoted in the press on the changing economics of the news business, Ken is a 21-year veteran of Knight Ridder Newspapers, having served in several executive and newsroom capacities. Read more
Emily Dresslar is the director of the RevLab at The Texas Tribune. A former journalist, Emily has developed a specialization in working on new ventures in news media, supporting innovation teams by managing operations, strategic partnerships and revenue development. Read more
@losangelista
Los Angeles-based writer and editor Liz Dwyer is the managing director of Word In Black. She has written about racial justice, gender equality, education, health, and culture for several national websites and print publications including Ebony, BuzzFeed, The Huffington Post, and Good Housekeeping. Read more
@JeffElgie
Jeff Elgie is a pioneer in digital media who has been building and leading businesses in the digital space for over 20 years. He is currently the CEO of Village Media, an ever-expanding network of local news websites that serves markets across three continents, operating on a proprietary convergent local publishing platform developed in-house. Read more
Editor for Emerging Products and Audio, The San Francisco Chronicle
@sarahfeldberg
Sarah Feldberg is the Editor for Emerging Products and Audio at The San Francisco Chronicle, where she oversees the podcast department, launches new initiatives and leads the newsroom’s exploration on new platforms. Read more
@manny_garcia1
Manny García is the editor of the Austin American-Statesman. He joined the Statesman in February 2021. He previously served as senior editor for the ProPublica-Texas Tribune Investigative Initiative, a new watchdog team that he helped launch in 2020. Read more
@ninaberries
Nina Gregory is Clubhouse’s Head of News and Media Partnerships, where she works with news organizations and journalists to engage with the Clubhouse community. She’s also working with authors and publishers as well as retired and emerging journalists. Read more
@nnguerrero
Natalia Guerrero is managing editor of Factchequeado.com, an initiative powered by Maldita and Chequeado to build a community of Hispanics and Latinos to fight disinformation in the U.S. Read more
Editor, Newsroom Development & Support, New York Times
@charohenriquez
Charo Henríquez is a digital journalist, working at the intersection of journalism and technology, to create a better culture in newsrooms. She is an advocate for inclusion of traditionally underrepresented people in media leadership and has focused most of her career in leading innovation in news organizations. Read more
@LisaHeyamoto
Lisa Heyamoto is director of Teaching & Learning at LION Publishers. She helps independent news organizations reach sustainability by designing training programs, coaching/consulting opportunities and practical resources that help publications become more operationally resilient, financially healthy and journalistically impactful. Read more
April Hinkle is the chief revenue officer of The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan digital news organization recently called “one of the nonprofit news sector’s runaway success stories.” Read more
Associate Professor, Department Chair, University of Utah
@averyholton
Avery Holton (PhD, University of Texas-Austin) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Utah where he also serves as the Department’s Chair. Read more
President and CEO, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Alberto Ibargüen is president and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. He is the former publisher of The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald. During his tenure, The Miami Herald won three Pulitzer Prizes and El Nuevo Herald won Spain’s Ortega y Gasset Prize for excellence in journalism. Read more
@RebeIbarraC
Rebeca hails from Mexico City. Before joining Insider, she was a host, reporter, and producer at WNYC, where she launched and hosted Consider This, a daily news podcast from NPR and WNYC. Read more
@mukhtaryare
Mukhtar M. Ibrahim is the founder of Sahan Journal, a nonprofit news organization that covers Minnesota’s immigrants and communities of color. He previously worked as a reporter for the Star Tribune and Minnesota Public Radio News. Read more
@cjimenezcruz
Clara Jiménez Cruz is the co-founder and CEO of Maldita.es, a Spanish foundation and non-profit news organization fighting disinformation and lies in public discourse through fact-checking and data journalism techniques. Read more
Head of AI and Personalization, Yle News Lab in Yle (Finland)
@ilparone
Jarno M. Koponen is a product and innovation leader, currently working as the Head of AI and Personalization at Yle News Lab in Yle, which is a non-profit public media company in Finland. His vision is to combine journalism, AI and design to build a sustainable and future-proof journalistic organization. Read more
@PattyLaya
Patricia Laya is the Venezuela bureau chief for Bloomberg News and a 2022 Harvard Nieman Fellow. Based in Caracas, she directs local coverage and reports on the country’s economic upheaval. Read more
Shirley Papé Chair in Emerging Media and Director of Journalism, University of Oregon
@SethCLewis
Seth C. Lewis is Professor, Director of Journalism, and Shirley Papé Chair in Emerging Media in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon. He has published widely on many aspects of journalism and technology, and is co-author of the new book News After Trump: Journalism’s Crisis of Relevance in a Changed Media Culture. Read more
Flavia Lima has been diversity editor at Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo since May 2021. She coordinated the publication’s first training program aimed exclusively at Black professionals. Read more
Curator, Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard
@AMLwhere
Ann Marie Lipinski is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, directing Nieman’s global journalism fellowships and publications including Nieman Lab, Nieman Reports and Nieman Storyboard. Read more
News Lab Lead for Spanish Latin America, Google News Lab
@jmlucero
Juan Manuel Lucero is the News Lab Lead for Spanish Latin America at Google News Lab – a global team that works with newsrooms to innovate and collaborate on industry challenges. Read more
Head of Advocacy and Education, Content Authenticity Initiative
@slyon66
Santiago Lyon is the Head of Advocacy and Education for the Adobe-led Content Authenticity Initiative, working to combat misinformation through digital content provenance. He has more than 35 years of experience in photography as an award-winning photojournalist, photo editor, media executive and educator. Read more
Director, School of Journalism and Media, University of Texas at Austin
@kathleeno
Kathleen McElroy is the director of School of Journalism and Media and a professor at The University of Texas at Austin. She received her Ph.D. from the School of Journalism and Media in December 2014, after nearly 30 years as a professional journalist. Read more
Elana Newman, Ph.D. is McFarlin Professor of Psychology at The University of Tulsa, Research Director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, and Co-Director of The University of Tulsa Institute of Trauma, Adversity, and Injustice. She is a journalist ally & PTSD expert. Read more
Executive Director and Co-founder, Vita-Activa.org
@Luortiz
Luisa Ortiz Pérez PhD., is a mental health advocate, gender-equality champion, civic media expert, social design thinker and a non violence expert. As the executive director and co-founder of Vita-Activa.org, Lu leads a helpline to assist women and LGBTIQ+ journalists, activists and freedom of expression defenders facing online violence, gender based harassment, stress, trauma and burnout. Read more
Chief Executive Officer, The Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism
@ImtiazBaltNews
Imtiaz is a former executive with Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal where he led circulation strategy and served as GM of key business verticals. Previously, Imtiaz was a consultant with Kurt Salmon Associates and Deloitte focused on growth strategy and business turnarounds. Read more
Executive Producer, Post Reports, The Washington Post
@maggiepenman
Maggie Penman is the executive producer of Post Reports, The Washington Post’s flagship daily news podcast. In her role she manages a team of brilliant audio journalists and helps bring the best of The Washington Post to people’s ears. Read more
@mtrpires
Marco Túlio Pires is the Google News Lab Lead, Brazil. He leads efforts around Product Thinking, misinformation, DEI and emerging technologies. Before joining Google, Marco worked as a production coordinator at Globo TV and as a science news reporter for VEJA. Read more
@kbmiami
Karen Rundlet is a journalism program officer at Knight Foundation. A journalist, Karen spent the first part of her career working as a television news producer in Miami (WPLG-TV), Atlanta (WAGA-TV) and New York (WNBC-TV). Read more
@jlsanz
José Luis Sanz is the Washington correspondent of El Faro and editor of El Faro English since January 2021. Before that he was the director of El Faro for seven years. Under his leadership the Salvadoran news outlet published joint investigations with international outlets including The New York Times, El País, Univisión Digital and Radio Ambulante. Read more
Director, Technology and Media, Columbia University
Anya Schiffrin is the director of the technology and media specialization at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. She’s recently been researching government policies to support journalism globally and her most recent report is “Saving Journalism 2: Global Strategies and a Look at Investigative Journalism.” Read more
@digitalamysw
Amy Schmitz Weiss is a professor in the School of Journalism & Media Studies at San Diego State University. She is the research chair for the International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ) and co-editor of the #ISOJ journal. She has received multiple internal and external grants for her research in digital journalism innovation. Read more
@dskok
David Skok is the CEO of The Logic: a highly respected national news publication in Canada. Before founding The Logic in 2018, he was the associate editor and head of editorial strategy at the Toronto Star. Read more
SVP, business development and corporate development, Vox Media
Shyra Smart is Vox Media’s SVP for Business Development and Corporate Development, overseeing business development across all networks and/or business units. Read more
@evanasmith
Evan Smith is the CEO and co-founder of The Texas Tribune, a pioneering nonprofit, nonpartisan digital news organization whose deep coverage of Texas politics and public policy can be found at its website, texastribune.org, and in newspapers and on TV and radio stations across the state. Read more
@RaySotoTech
Ray Soto is an award-winning Senior Director of Emerging Tech with nearly 20 years of experience creating and leading the development of interactive experiences within the journalism and video games industries. Read more
Ann Stern is President and CEO of Houston Endowment, a private foundation whose mission is to enhance the vibrancy of Greater Houston and advance equity of opportunity for the people who live in the region. Read more
@jamiestockwell
Jamie Stockwell is the executive editor of Axios Local, Axios’ local news imprint covering pressing topics in communities across America. Prior to Axios, Jamie joined The New York Times in June 2018 as a deputy national editor. Read more
Research Director, Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University
@SarahStonbely
Sarah Stonbely (Ph.D., New York University, 2015) is the research director at the Center for Cooperative Media in Montclair, NJ. As such she designs, manages, and executes the research agenda, which supports the Center’s mission of growing and strengthening local journalism. Read more
@HANNAHSTORM6
Hannah Storm is a media consultant specialising in journalism safety, crisis management and effective, empathetic leadership. She is the founder and co-director of Headlines Network, a community set up to promote more open conversations around mental health in the media. Read more
@mallarytenore
Mallary Tenore is the associate director of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin’s Moody College of Communication. In this role she helps oversee the Center’s staff, programmatic work, events, fundraising, and more. She’s also part of the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin’s School of Journalism and Media. Read more
Fu Ting is a Chinese journalist based in Thailand who covers Southeast Asia and China’s influence abroad for The Associated Press. She spent most of her career in her homeland, most recently as a video producer in Beijing covering topics such as the repression of religious minorities, China’s #MeToo movement and China-U.S. trade tensions. Read more
@VianaNatalia
Natalia Viana is the co-founder and executive director of Agência Pública, Brazil’s first nonprofit investigative journalism outlet. She leads long-term investigations and multimedia projects about human rights violations and the abuse of power. Read more
@stevenwaldman
Steven Waldman is the President and co-founder of Report for America, a national service program that places reporters into local newsrooms to report on under-covered communities and issues. The program now places 325 reporters into 200 local newsrooms. Read more
@janinewarner
Janine Warner is the co-founder and executive director of SembraMedia. She also has a Knight Fellowship from the International Center for Journalists. Over the last decade, Janine has worked with thousands of journalists and digital media entrepreneurs in the U.S., Latin America, and Europe. Read more
@keithwoods
Keith Woods is Chief Diversity Officer at NPR. He leads and supports NPR’s efforts to bring greater diversity to its audience, content and staffing while creating a workplace where a diverse staff can grow and thrive. Read more
Nykia Wright is the President and CEO of Chicago Sun-Times Media, the oldest, continuously published news publication in the state of Illinois. She is a recognized leader in the journalism industry and is responsible for managing significant disruption, driving change, and implementing the company’s digital transformation. Read more
Director and Editor-in-chief, Chequeado (Argentina)
@lauzommer
Laura is director and editor-in-chief at Chequeado, the first fact-checking organization in Argentina, Latin America and the Global South. She was the creator of LatamChequea, the largest regional fact-checking network that brings together more than 30 media in 15 countries to fight disinformation and lies in the public discourse. Read more
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Media Engagement
@jessrcollier
Jessica Collier is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Media Engagement. Her research examines how media organizations and technology platforms interact in ways that can be beneficial or detrimental to democracy. Read more
Editor, European Journalism Observatory (Switzerland)
Giulia Ferri is a PhD student at the Institute of Media and Journalism and editor of the European Journalism Observatory at the Università della Svizzera italiana. Her primary research interest is the impact of artificial intelligence on journalism, in particular the changing power dynamics between human journalists and machines in newsrooms. Read more
Knight Chair in Interactive Media, University of Miami
@Mindtoggle
Lindsay Grace is Knight Chair in Interactive Media and an associate professor at the University of Miami School of Communication. He is vice president for the Higher Education Video Game Alliance and the 20219 recipient of the Games for Change Vanguard Award. Read more
Associate Professor, California Polytechnic State University
@pchowe
Patrick Howe is an associate professor of journalism at California Polytechnic State University. His research has explored native advertising, media management and algorithmic journalism. Read more
@GinaMMasullo
Gina M. Masullo is an Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Media and Associate Director of the Center for Media Engagement, both in Moody College of Communication at The University of Texas at Austin. Read more
Senior Research Associate, Center for Media Engagement
Caroline Murray is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Media Engagement in the Moody College of Communication at The University of Texas at Austin. Read more
Assistant Professor, Institute of Media and Journalism (Switzerland)
@herdingbehavior
Dr. Colin Porlezza is assistant professor at the Institute of Media and Journalism and director of the European Journalism Observatory at the Università della Svizzera italiana. His research interests are the datafication of journalism, the impact of AI on journalism, journalism innovation, and media accountability. Read more
@TaliaStroud
Natalie (Talia) Jomini Stroud holds the E. M. “Ted” Dealey Professorship in the Business of Journalism and is a Professor in the Department of Communication Studies and the School of Journalism and Media, as well as the founding and current director of the Center for Media Engagement and the interim director of the Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life in the Moody College of Communication at The University of Texas at Austin. Read more
@DanielTrielli
Daniel Trielli is a PhD candidate at Northwestern University. As a member of the Computational Journalism Lab, he studies the impact of algorithms in the production and distribution of news, and how journalists can investigate algorithms. Read more
