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Event: 25th International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ)
Attending: Wolf Siegert
Number in Party: 1
Time: 7:30 AM
Date: April 12, 2024
Confirmation Number: K3NJVXD6VKP

.Hier das zum Zeitpunkt der Anmeldung abgerufene Programm:

8:30–8:45 a.m. —WELCOME SESSION

ISOJ Emcee: Summer Harlow, associate director, Knight Center
Rosental Calmon Alves, founder and director, ISOJ/Knight Center
Rachel Davis Mersey, dean, Moody College of Communication, UT Austin

8:45–9:30 a.m.—KEYNOTE SESSION

Speak what you seek until you see what you’ve said: Creating a gutsy vision for local news

Keynote speaker: Wendi C. Thomas, founding editor and publisher, MLK50: Justice through Journalism
Chair: Emily Ramshaw, co-founder and CEO, The 19th*

9:30–10:45 a.m.—PANEL

Press Forward: A half-billion-dollar philanthropic initiative to help save U.S. local news

Chair: Rachel Davis Mersey, dean, Moody College of Communication, UT Austin
Special presentation: John Palfrey, president, MacArthur Foundation
Dale R. Anglin, director, Press Forward
Courtney Bengtson, chief strategy officer, Wichita Foundation
Jim Brady, vice president of journalism, Knight Foundation

10:45–11:00 a.m.—COFFEE BREAK

11:00 a.m.–12:15 p.m.—PANEL
Using OSINT (Open-Source Intelligence) and SOCMINT (Social Media Intelligence) for war coverage, investigative reporting and fact-checking

Chair: Marc Lavallee, director of technology product and strategy for the journalism program, Knight Foundation
Meg Kelly, senior reporter, Visual Forensics, The Washington Post
Eoghan Macguire, lead editor, Bellingcat, The Netherlands
Marc Perkins, investigations editor, BBC World Service, London
Haley Willis, visual investigations reporter, The New York Times

12:20–1:10 p.m.—LUNCH WORKSHOP

New Google tools for reporting and fact-checking
Registration for workshops is required and seats are limited. In English – there will be no interpretation.

12:20–1:10 p.m.—LUNCH WORKSHOP

Srategies to optimize revenue in local news
Registration for workshops is required and seats are limited. In English – there will be no interpretation.

Courtney Lewis, chief of growth programs, INN
Michael Ouimette, chief investment officer, American Journalism Project
Katie Rethman, product lead, Newspack at Automattic

1:15–2:15 p.m.—PANEL

AI in the newsrooms: What is working now and how it is helping to improve journalism

Chair: Trei Brundrett, senior advisor (consultant), the American Journalism Project’s Product & AI Studio and Startups Studio
Lilian Ferreira, general manager of strategy and metrics, UOL, Brazil
Aimee Rinehart, senior product manager for AI strategy, The Associated Press
Andrew Rodriguez Calderón, data project lead, The Marshall Project
Zach Seward, newsroom’s editorial director of A.I. initiatives, The New York Times

2:15–3:00 p.m.—KEYNOTE SESSION:

Mission Impossible: Medusa’s 10 years experience of beating Kremlin censorship

Keynote speaker: Galina Timchenko, co-founder, CEO & publisher, Meduza (independent Russian media outlet operating from Latvia)
Chair: Kathleen McElroy, professor, School of Journalism and Media, UT Austin

3:30–4:45 p.m.—PANEL

How should journalism and platforms deal with the wave of extreme polarization that digital technologies helped to create?

Chair: Janet Coats, managing director, Consortium on Trust in Media and Technology, University of Florida
Richard Gingras, vice president of news, Google Inc.
Mónica Guzmán, senior fellow for public practice, Braver Angels
Tina Rosenberg, co-founder, Solutions Journalism Network
Sonal Shah, CEO, The Texas Tribune

4:45–6:00 p.m.—PANEL

Social media regulation, copyright changes, government subsidies: How can new policies affect journalism?

Chair: Anya Schiffrin, director, technology, media and communications, Columbia University
Jeff Jarvis, Tow Professor of Journalism Innovation, Newmark Graduate School of Journalism
Amy Mitchell, founding executive director, Center for News, Technology & Innovation, CNTI
Victor Pickard, professor and co-director of the Media, Inequality & Change Center, University of Pennsylvania
Steve Waldman, founder and president, Rebuild Local News

6:15–7:45 p.m.—THE MOODY PARTY

A welcome reception offered by the Moody College of Communication in the courtyard of the AT&T Hotel & Conference Center, University of Texas at Austin

Am Tag der Veranstaltung war ein Einloggen via Zoom - aus welchen Gründen auch immer - nicht möglich. In Folge einer entsprechenden Nachricht an den Veranstalter trifft in der Nacht zum Samstag diese Mail ein:

Hello ISOJers,

We hope you had a great first day of ISOJ. As one of the perks for being part of our Virtual Experience, we are sending links to all recordings for Day 1 in English. Please do not share with anyone else.

The links to the Spanish recordings will be available later.

Thank you for attending and see you tomorrow!

If you have any technical problems, please email isojhelp@gmail.com.

Team ISOJ

Opening Remarks

Wendi C. Thomas Keynote

Using OSINT and SOCMINT for war coverage, investigative reporting and fact checking

25th ISOJ Press Forward: A half-billion-dollar philanthropic initiative to revitalize U.S. local news

AI in the newsrooms: What is working now and how it is helping to improve journalism

Galina Timchenko Keynote

How should journalism and platforms constructively address the global challenge of polarization?

Social media regulation, copyright changes, government subsidies: How can new policies affect journalism?

Die als Link übermittelten Themen werden daher hier nicht als solche wiedergegeben, da in der Mail zu lesen ist:

Please do not share with anyone else.

Andererseits können diese aber ohne Einschränkungen auf YouTube eingesehen werden. Daher hier diese eine Ausnahme von dieser Regel.

Es geht um den nachfolgenden unter der neuen Moderation Amy Mitche zitierten Beitrag 25th ISOJ: How should journalism & platforms constructively address global challenge of polarization, in dem als erster Richard Gingras, VP of News, Google Inc., auftritt. Seine Teilnahme gab den ersten Anlass, sich überhaupt zu einer zahlungspflichtigen Online-Teilnahme an diesem Symposium zu entscheiden.

Es hatte bereits zuvor mehrere persönliche Kontakte mit Richard Gingras gegeben, sowohl in Deutschland [1], als auch in den USA. Dazu als pars pro toto an dieser Stelle nochmals das Interview mit Richard Gingras, damals Senior Director of News and Social Products, vom 24. September 2014 in den Google-Headquarters: