The 20th ISOJ was held April 12 – 13, 2019.
Articles on the panels as well as videos of the 20th ISOJ are available on this page.
Videos are available in multiple cuts. You can view entire morning or afternoon sessions in English or Spanish, or you can view each individual presentation and panel. To view individual presentations or panels, please click the button or link next to the desired presenter listed in the Archive at the bottom of the page. Videos of entire sessions are listed directly below.
Day 1 Morning English and Español Day 1 Afternoon English and Español
Day 2 Morning English and Español Day 2 Afternoon English and Español
This unique global conference would not be possible without the generous support of our partners and sponsors.
We want to recognize and thank Knight Foundation, Chorus by Vox Media, The Dallas Morning News, Facebook Journalism Project,
Ford Foundation, Google News Initiative, Luminate, Microsoft News, Open Society Foundations and Univision News.
News
Coloquio | April 22, 2019
Lanzan nuevo fondo para acelerar a medios digitales independientes en América Latina con financiamiento y asesoría
En una época en la que el periodismo está bajo diversas amenazas en América Latina, los medios independientes requieren no solo suficiente financiamiento, sino también impulso y orientación de otras organizaciones que han probado fórmulas de éxito. Con eso en mente, SembraMedia y el Centro Internacional para Periodistas (ICFJ por sus siglas en inglés), con … Read More
Coloquio | April 22, 2019
Medios independientes del Triángulo Norte se fortalecen pero hacen periodismo de datos con recursos limitados
La corrupción, desigualdad y violencia son algunas de las características comunes de Guatemala, El Salvador y Honduras, países de la región conocida como Triángulo Norte. Sin embargo, en los últimos años, el periodismo independiente de esta región se ha visto fortalecido con diversas iniciativas de capacitación en periodismo de datos y seguimiento que han sido … Read More
Coloquio | April 22, 2019
López Obrador crea polarización con ataques a la prensa y poca transparencia, dicen periodistas mexicanos
Con poco más de cuatro meses en el poder, el presidente de México, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, ha implementado una estrategia de acoso y descalificación contra los medios de comunicación que está provocando una polarización de la prensa de ese país, de acuerdo con los periodistas Salvador Camarena y Daniel Moreno. Camarena, director general de … Read More
ISOJ 2019 Archive
Keynote speaker: Henry Blodget
Chair: Mike Wilson, editor, Dallas Morning News
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Henry Blodget, co-founder, CEO, and editorial director, Insider, Inc
Can media really rebuild trust with audiences?
Chair and presenter: Tom Rosenstiel, executive director, American Press Institute
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Rob Bennett, editor-in-chief & general manager, global content operations, Microsoft News
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Joy Mayer, director, Trusting News
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Mizell Stewart, senior director of talent, partnerships and news strategy, Gannett and the USA TODAY Network
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Charles Sykes, editor-in-chief, The Bulwark
Automation and the future of fact checking
Chair and presenter: Bill Adair, Knight Professor of Journalism & Public Policy at Duke University, creator of PolitiFact
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Pablo Fernández, director of editorial innovation, Chequeado, Argentina
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Day-young Oh, chief of Team Fact Check, JTBC TV, South Korea
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Katie Sanders, managing editor, PolitiFact
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Sérgio Spagnuolo, ICFJ TruthBuzz Fellow, Brazil
Keynote speaker: Millie Tran
Chair: Kathleen McElroy, director and professor, School of Journalism at University of Texas at Austin
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Millie Tran, deputy off-platform editor, New York Times
Subscriptions and memberships: Reinventing the relationship with your audience
Chair and presenter: Emily Goligoski, research director, Membership Puzzle Project
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Tim Griggs, digital media consultant/advisor, leader of Facebook’s Local News Subscriptions Accelerator
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Tony Haile, CEO, Scroll
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Jason Tuohey, senior deputy managing editor for audience engagement and digital platforms, Boston Globe
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Amanda Zamora, chief audience officer, Texas Tribune
RESEARCH PANEL: Digital Media and Democracy in the Americas
Chair: Eugenia Mitchelstein, associate professor and director of the communication degree, University of San Andrés, Argentina
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A case of reverse- agenda setting: How 2018’s FIFA World, cup coverage reduced media reporting of Uruguayan budget bill’s yearly revision
Matías Dodel, Federico Comesaña & Daniel Blanc, Universidad Católica del Uruguay
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Mixing the Old with the New through Digital Media: Political Representation, Race, and Millennial Voices in a changing Cuba
Shearon Roberts, Xavier University of Louisiana
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Exposing the President: The political angle of a natural disaster in Chile,
Magdalena Saldana, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile/Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD)
Ok, Google, Alexa and Siri: Play the news. Can you really help journalism in the podcast boom?
Chair: Debbie Hiott, general manager, KUT & KUTX
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Kourtney Bitterly, lead research & development, New York Times
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Steve Lickteig, executive producer, podcasts and audio, NBC News and MSNBC
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Irene Noguchi, executive producer of Today, Explained podcast, Vox Media
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Jessica Stahl, director of audio, The Washington Post
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Emily Withrow, director, Quartz Bots Studio
Keynote speaker: Dave Winer
Chair: Rebecca MacKinnon, co-founder and board member, Global Voices Online
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Dave Winer, software developer and editor of the Scripting News weblog, a pioneering developer of weblogs, RSS, and podcasting
The impact of artificial intelligence and machine learning on journalism
Chair and presenter: Nicholas Diakopoulos, assistant professor, Northwestern University
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Clay Eltzroth, product manager, Bloomberg
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Lisa Gibbs, director of news partnerships, Associated Press
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Ling Jiang, senior data scientist, Washington Post
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Michael Morisy, chief executive, Muckrock
Saving local news in the U.S.: Can we have sustainable online journalism in local markets?
Chair: Jennifer Preston, vice president, journalism, Knight Foundation
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Jim Brady, CEO and founder, Spirited Media
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Ryan Nave, editor-in-chief, Mississippi Today
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Tasneem Raja, co-founder and executive editor, The Tyler Loop
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John Thornton, venture capitalist, co-founder of Texas Tribune and the American Journalism Project
Keynote speaker: Matt Thompson
Chair: Jay Rosen, journalism professor, New York University, and director, Membership Puzzle Project
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Matt Thompson, editor-in-chief, Center for Investigative Reporting (and a contributing editor at The Atlantic)
Lightning presentations
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From horizontal to vertical: news shows for mobile consumption
Selymar Colón, vice president and editor in chief, digital news, Univision Communications
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Why investing in independent media is a bet worth making
Felipe Estefan, investment director, Luminate
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Highlights from the pre-ISOJ Hackathon on building tools to measure and boost trust in news
Andrew Gibson, front-end engineer, Texas Tribune
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“Strategies to confront online violence”: Five takeaways from pre-ISOJ workshop
Nadine Hoffman, deputy director, International Women’s Media Foundation
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Accelerating news startups in Latin America
Janine Warner, ICFJ Knight Fellow and co-founder of SembraMedia, and Luis Botello, deputy vice president, New Initiatives and Impact, ICFJ
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Spatial Journalism: The intersection of local news and location-based technologies
Amy Schmitz Weiss, associate professor, San Diego State University
Global roundup: Journalism in the age of authoritarians, populists and polarization
Chair: Kathleen Kingsbury, deputy editorial page editor, New York Times
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Cinthia Membreño, director of digital strategy, Confidencial, Nicaragua
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Susan Comrie, investigative journalist, amaBhungane Centre for Investigative Journalism, South Africa
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Patricia Campos Mello, reporter and columnist, Folha de S. Paulo, Brazil
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Julett Pineda, reporter, Efecto Cocuyo, Venezuela
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Blanka Zöldi, journalist, Direkt36, Hungary
Covering an online president: White House press corps in the age of Twitter
Chair: Evan Smith, co-founder and CEO, Texas Tribune
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Yamiche Alcindor, White House correspondent, PBS NewsHour
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Kimberly Atkins, Washington correspondent, WBUR
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Jonathan Lemire, White House reporter, Associated Press
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Eli Stokols, White House reporter, Los Angeles Times