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SUMMARY:1) Media Party Opening - Media Fair
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CATEGORIES:MEDIA FAIR
LOCATION:Lobby\, New York\, NY\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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DTEND:20260508T213000Z
SUMMARY:Anfibia
DESCRIPTION:Anfibia is an independent media outlet from Argentina with 14 years of experience exploring a central question: how can journalism remain meaningful in an age of political polarization\, information overload\, and public distrust?\nWe work at the intersection of investigative reporting\, literary nonfiction\, performance art\, and editorial innovation. Our hypothesis is that journalism must move beyond information delivery and become a form of civic and cultural experience.\nThrough our Performatic Journalism Lab\, we test new narrative methodologies where reporting becomes live performance\, immersive storytelling\, and collaborative audience engagement. We explore whether journalism can create participation\, not only attention.\nAnfibia also functions as a regional network across Latin America\, connecting journalists through fellowships\, collaborative investigations\, and training programs that strengthen independent media ecosystems.\nOur model is sustainable: revenue is reinvested into journalism\, experimentation\, and community-building.\nFor Media Feria\, we want to share Anfibia as a case study in how media organizations can combine editorial rigor\, aesthetic experimentation\, and technological adaptation to build the next generation of journalism.
CATEGORIES:MEDIA FAIR
LOCATION:Lobby\, New York\, NY\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://mediapartybrownny2026.sched.com/event/babd6dcfb2d848c60752d6d2c3c5dec3
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DTSTART:20260508T210000Z
DTEND:20260508T213000Z
SUMMARY:Code For Africa
DESCRIPTION:\n
CATEGORIES:MEDIA FAIR
LOCATION:Lobby\, New York\, NY\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://mediapartybrownny2026.sched.com/event/b8cc9dbe9d8f1e0f632ba57508f24430
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DTSTAMP:20260508T162650Z
DTSTART:20260508T210000Z
DTEND:20260508T213000Z
SUMMARY:Daily Maverick
DESCRIPTION:\n
CATEGORIES:MEDIA FAIR
LOCATION:Lobby\, New York\, NY\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:ac15f49400bee0038f44172c805a6d36
URL:http://mediapartybrownny2026.sched.com/event/ac15f49400bee0038f44172c805a6d36
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DTSTAMP:20260508T162650Z
DTSTART:20260508T210000Z
DTEND:20260508T213000Z
SUMMARY:Global Index of Responsible AI
DESCRIPTION:The Global Index of Responsible AI measures how countries are honoring their international commitments on AI governance and responsible AI\, especially those tied to UNESCO’s Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. The project tracks 17 responsible AI topics\, assessing whether countries have relevant laws\, regulations\, and real-world implementation\, using a global network of 135 researchers—one in each country—who contribute data every two years. Beyond serving as a diagnostic tool for international organizations\, the project also has strong value for journalists because it offers open\, comparable data that helps contextualize public debates on AI\, identify regulatory gaps\, and bring a globally informed but locally grounded perspective led by a South African organization.
CATEGORIES:MEDIA FAIR
LOCATION:Lobby\, New York\, NY\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://mediapartybrownny2026.sched.com/event/fcd08aed5dbb364297aad923f7e58778
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DTSTAMP:20260508T162650Z
DTSTART:20260508T210000Z
DTEND:20260508T213000Z
SUMMARY:Google Developer Experts
DESCRIPTION:\n
CATEGORIES:MEDIA FAIR
LOCATION:Lobby\, New York\, NY\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://mediapartybrownny2026.sched.com/event/a7bca67af34e8e380409f205b0554d80
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DTSTAMP:20260508T162650Z
DTSTART:20260508T210000Z
DTEND:20260508T213000Z
SUMMARY:InfoAmazonia
DESCRIPTION:InfoAmazonia is a Brazilian nonprofit newsroom founded in 2012 to combine data journalism\, maps\, geojournalism\, and in-depth reporting about the Amazon. Covering the nine countries that share the world’s largest continuous tropical rainforest\, InfoAmazonia investigates social and environmental issues that reveal the global importance of Amazonian territories\, communities\, and ecosystems.\n\nThe organization works across three integrated areas: editorial production\, collaborative journalism networks\, and journalism education. Its reporting brings together fieldwork\, open data\, satellite imagery\, geospatial analysis\, interactive maps\, multimedia storytelling\, and public-interest technology to monitor issues such as deforestation\, fires\, mining\, land conflicts\, pollution\, climate impacts\, and threats to Indigenous and traditional communities.\n\nInnovation is central to InfoAmazonia’s work — not only in the tools it develops and uses\, but also in the way it produces\, distributes\, and collaborates on journalism. Through special projects\, data platforms\, cross-border investigations\, and partnerships with local\, regional\, and international media outlets\, InfoAmazonia connects technological experimentation with collaborative reporting. Its goal is to expand access to reliable information about the Amazon\, strengthen journalism in the region\, and create new ways for the public to understand complex environmental and social dynamics.
CATEGORIES:MEDIA FAIR
LOCATION:Lobby\, New York\, NY\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://mediapartybrownny2026.sched.com/event/25f58a41f77346323316d300e1334037
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DTSTART:20260508T210000Z
DTEND:20260508T213000Z
SUMMARY:Redline
DESCRIPTION:Redline is a story auditing platform that formed as an outgrowth of academic integrity checks. As you explore student work\, you think about angles\, methodology problems\, data sourcing\, reproducibility\, AI-generated copy\, confirming interviews – a hundred and one gotchas and potential missteps that only become more prevalent as we hand off more and more to AI. As I found myself being able to provide students with much more detailed feedback with a much faster turnaround time\, it quickly became obvious that my grading platform could serve just as well for journalism as a whole.\nRedline is built around an agentic system that processes your story and supplemental documents\, automating the misstep-finding and first-pass editing process. It studies your copy\, provides feedback\, and tackles resource-intensive steps like verifying source and attempting to reproduce your research and findings (whether they're Google Docs\, Word files\, spreadsheets Github repos\, or a handful of other formats).\nThe real bonus is its agentic and extensible nature - every newsroom has its own standards and guidelines\, and individual stories and verticals might need different angles in its process. By providing several levels of "pluggability" you're able to customize the platform to exactly what suits your use case.
CATEGORIES:MEDIA FAIR
LOCATION:Lobby\, New York\, NY\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://mediapartybrownny2026.sched.com/event/d0ced841abc7cb8b1a9919cc0325d993
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DTSTAMP:20260508T162650Z
DTSTART:20260508T210000Z
DTEND:20260508T213000Z
SUMMARY:WP News: Action Journalism Ecosystem (Hispabot & Sutita Rimay)
DESCRIPTION:\n
CATEGORIES:MEDIA FAIR
LOCATION:Lobby\, New York\, NY\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://mediapartybrownny2026.sched.com/event/b8e5f9b70c78c6217869b6bb65af544d
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DTSTAMP:20260508T162650Z
DTSTART:20260508T215000Z
DTEND:20260508T220500Z
SUMMARY:After the Feed: AI and the future of the information environment
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CATEGORIES:KEYNOTE
LOCATION:Brown Institute Space - Ground Floor\, New York\, NY\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://mediapartybrownny2026.sched.com/event/0a3df3dd2831098ab7cbc83a2c8ebf25
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DTSTAMP:20260508T162650Z
DTSTART:20260508T220800Z
DTEND:20260508T222300Z
SUMMARY:AI Is Rewriting Media Innovation And Bringing Us Closer to Our Communities?
DESCRIPTION:\n
CATEGORIES:KEYNOTE
LOCATION:Brown Institute Space - Ground Floor\, New York\, NY\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://mediapartybrownny2026.sched.com/event/9ef9b936e2477f6aff4b980a4d2c121b
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DTSTAMP:20260508T162650Z
DTSTART:20260508T222600Z
DTEND:20260508T224100Z
SUMMARY:The Rise of the 1-person Media Company
DESCRIPTION:How to transition from reporting for traditional newsrooms to running your own media company.
CATEGORIES:KEYNOTE
LOCATION:Brown Institute Space - Ground Floor\, New York\, NY\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://mediapartybrownny2026.sched.com/event/8554c503d4e283c55deb26ee935c92bb
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DTSTAMP:20260508T162650Z
DTSTART:20260508T224400Z
DTEND:20260508T225900Z
SUMMARY:AI is neither good\, nor bad; nor is it neutral
DESCRIPTION:This talk walks through my existential crisis engaging with AI. I left Google because I didn't believe nor respected the direction we were taking with Gemini\, especially as a former fact-checker. I co-founded Indicator to cover digital deception and have repeatedly documented how AI has made it easier to harass people at scale and pump out sloppy engagement-bait. But over the past few months\, I have found that Claude Code is a tool I can trust to have a transformative effect on my data collection\, analysis\, and representation. I'll walk through some (basic) examples of how my work has changed over the past year and lay out some open questions that my co-founder Craig Silverman and I are navigating as we build our AI policy.
CATEGORIES:KEYNOTE
LOCATION:Brown Institute Space - Ground Floor\, New York\, NY\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://mediapartybrownny2026.sched.com/event/7911d811b10ea0dc370a5bd0f49d48b8
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DTSTAMP:20260508T162650Z
DTSTART:20260508T230100Z
DTEND:20260508T230400Z
SUMMARY:From a community to a global engine - Where is Media Party going?
DESCRIPTION:How Media Party has evolved over time\, and how is creating a global laboratory for media innovation
CATEGORIES:TRANSITION
LOCATION:Brown Institute Space - Ground Floor\, New York\, NY\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://mediapartybrownny2026.sched.com/event/a2dd754382784ff05b10706ff499928a
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DTSTAMP:20260508T162650Z
DTSTART:20260508T230500Z
DTEND:20260508T231000Z
SUMMARY:From audience engagement to community co-creation: a case study
DESCRIPTION:I propose a lightning talk length case study of Bellingcat's work and our unique "audience engagement" strategy via an open-source investigative story about an oil spill in the Caribbean. This project started as a comment in our public Discord chatroom\, and became a sprawling collaboration with multiple newsrooms across multiple continents. Along the way\, it remained transparent and community-led. Our audience are more than passive consumers of our content. Through our public gathering spaces and volunteer programs\, they can become co-creators of our research. By building this community\, Bellingcat promotes ethical and responsible open source investigation skills\, critical for media literacy and democratic participation in the misinformation age.
CATEGORIES:LIGHTNING TALK
LOCATION:Brown Institute Space - Ground Floor\, New York\, NY\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://mediapartybrownny2026.sched.com/event/0739d5e99c1f1f3bcd376e4557bce32a
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DTSTAMP:20260508T162650Z
DTSTART:20260508T231200Z
DTEND:20260508T231700Z
SUMMARY:The Emerging Creator News & Information Field - New Research Insights
DESCRIPTION:I will give quick take highlights on why this emerging field of creator priovders matters\, who they are\, their brackgrounds\, business strategies\, audience relationships\, support structures and more. Data comes from long-form interviews with creators info providers in the U.S. and South Africa. The U.S. findings will be realeased April 13 with South Africa following soon after.&nbsp\;
CATEGORIES:LIGHTNING TALK
LOCATION:Brown Institute Space - Ground Floor\, New York\, NY\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://mediapartybrownny2026.sched.com/event/5c588f88dd616f3514d0038b87e11887
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DTSTAMP:20260508T162650Z
DTSTART:20260508T231900Z
DTEND:20260508T232400Z
SUMMARY:The power of Wikipedia to highlight great news
DESCRIPTION:Women on Wikipedia&nbsp\;
CATEGORIES:LIGHTNING TALK
LOCATION:Brown Institute Space - Ground Floor\, New York\, NY\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://mediapartybrownny2026.sched.com/event/881d2b81baf0a75d209c24c5f86f8f11
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DTSTAMP:20260508T162650Z
DTSTART:20260509T140000Z
DTEND:20260509T141500Z
SUMMARY:What Is Independent Media\, Anyway? How AI Is Changing Our Answer (Again).
DESCRIPTION:\n
CATEGORIES:KEYNOTE
LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, Pulitzer Hall
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://mediapartybrownny2026.sched.com/event/4173d1b6a44c7178568063a4de022693
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DTSTAMP:20260508T162650Z
DTSTART:20260509T141800Z
DTEND:20260509T143300Z
SUMMARY:Journalism First. What If AI Handled the Rest?
DESCRIPTION:Independent newsrooms face a structural trap: the functions that sustain journalism - audience development\, grant management\, impact measurement\, revenue operations - compete with journalism itself for budget and capacity. AI is changing that equation. This talk is an honest account of what that looks like in practice\, and the potential for newsrooms to stop choosing between the two.
CATEGORIES:KEYNOTE
LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, Pulitzer Hall
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://mediapartybrownny2026.sched.com/event/bd67cafa78882892325ee541934cac04
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DTSTAMP:20260508T162650Z
DTSTART:20260509T143600Z
DTEND:20260509T145100Z
SUMMARY:Africa Mining Watch: how to build a community around an environmental journalism tool
DESCRIPTION:Code for Africa\, the Pulitzer Center and Earth Genome have partnered to build Africa Mining Watch\, a satellite imagery and machine learning platform that detects mining operations across the continent\, adapted from Amazon Mining Watch. This talk walks through how the three organisations are structuring transnational investigative journalism projects around the tool\, pairing continental data leads with targeted one-on-one mentorship for African journalists. It also covers the community-building model behind the platform\, including a mapathon bringing together journalists from across Africa to interrogate the data and develop original story pitches.
CATEGORIES:KEYNOTE
LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, Pulitzer Hall
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://mediapartybrownny2026.sched.com/event/d83eb94baae81ab897c7b00f2ca82345
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DTSTAMP:20260508T162650Z
DTSTART:20260509T145400Z
DTEND:20260509T150900Z
SUMMARY:The Big Split: where news value lands in an agentic future
DESCRIPTION:\n
CATEGORIES:KEYNOTE
LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, Pulitzer Hall
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://mediapartybrownny2026.sched.com/event/bc325e340d70eeb3d03cf47f581638c6
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DTSTAMP:20260508T162650Z
DTSTART:20260509T153000Z
DTEND:20260509T170000Z
SUMMARY:AI Tools That Won't Get You Fired
DESCRIPTION:In this hands-on workshop\, we'll cover free and low-cost AI tools that are useful for journalists. Participants get a handout with links to all of the tools and a folder full of data and resources to test them with. We'll cover tools such as Visualping\, Summarize.tech\, LLMs and Custom GPTs\, NotebookLM and many other tools. Mike also will introduce you to the Journalist's Toolbox (journaliststoolbox.ai) and the free resources it offers. He'll also cover privacy settings and preferences/custom instructions for LLMs. Bring a laptop for a fun-filled 90-minute workshop.
CATEGORIES:WORKSHOP
LOCATION:World Room\, New York\, NY\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://mediapartybrownny2026.sched.com/event/3a1d956b2725d073c5e6a8e6001e6c12
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DTSTAMP:20260508T162650Z
DTSTART:20260509T153000Z
DTEND:20260509T170000Z
SUMMARY:Creator Providers: Who are you\, What do you need & How can you become one?
DESCRIPTION:Are you a creator provider? Indie info provider? Would you like to be or just to learn more about how they work? Come take part in am interative working session based on new findings from CNTI's recent research into these provider in the U.S. and South Africa. We will discuss the current landscape\, business stragies\, support needs\, working along and more\, Leave with tips\, strategies\, a new network of colleagues and more. &nbsp\;I would run this with Justin Banks of Project C and the Independent Journalism Atlas as well as with a top creator.
CATEGORIES:WORKSHOP
LOCATION:607B -  6th floor\, New York\, NY\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://mediapartybrownny2026.sched.com/event/0e6ac9f8a632730c9def4e09b8fe8b84
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DTSTAMP:20260508T162650Z
DTSTART:20260509T153000Z
DTEND:20260509T170000Z
SUMMARY:Enigma Government Archive
DESCRIPTION:Traditional journalism is losing distribution. Creators are winning it.\nIn this hands-on workshop\, participants will transform journalistic content into creator-style formats optimized for reach\, trust\, and platform dynamics.\nDrawing on real-world experience from Dieter von Holtzbrinck Medien (publisher of Handelsblatt\, Tagesspiegel\, and Die Zeit)\, we will show how AI-powered workflows can turn high-quality journalism into scalable creator formats without losing credibility.\nParticipants will analyze successful news influencers\, extract repeatable patterns\, and build their own format using AI tools (including secure enterprise AI and voice generation).\nBy the end of the session\, every participant will leave with a fully developed\, ready-to-publish news format tailored to their audience and platform.\nThis workshop is designed for journalists\, creators\, and editorial teams who want to compete in the creator economy without compromising journalistic standards.\nWorkshop Structure (120 minutes)\n0–30 min | Context\, Framing\, Pattern Analysis\nWhy journalism is losing distributionAnatomy of successful news influencers (share insights of our whitepaper)Breakdown of real examplesPresent repeatable format patterns\n30–60 min | Creation Sprint\nParticipants define:audiencetopicformat conceptAI-supported ideation and structuring\n60–105 min | Prototyping\nVibe Coding\n105–120 min | Share Results\nGallery WalkPeer feedback and refinementClosing\nHow is our session interactive?Participants actively build their own format throughout the sessionGroup work and peer feedback loopsAI-assisted co-creation with tech support (live)Real-time iteration and testingThis is a fully hands-on session\, no passive listening.\nWhat will participants leave with?Each participant will leave with:A fully defined news creator formatA structured content blueprint (hook\, format\, distribution logic)A ready-to-use prototypeA repeatable workflow for future content creation
CATEGORIES:WORKSHOP
LOCATION:Brown Institute Space - Ground Floor\, New York\, NY\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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DTSTAMP:20260508T162650Z
DTSTART:20260509T153000Z
DTEND:20260509T170000Z
SUMMARY:How Social Media Algorithms Amplify Hate Speech: Case Study of Sudanese Refugees in Cairo
DESCRIPTION:This 90-minute hands-on workshop explores how major social media algorithms (Facebook\, Instagram\, TikTok\, X) actively amplify hate speech targeting Sudanese refugees in Cairo.
CATEGORIES:WORKSHOP
LOCATION:601B 6th floor\, New York\, NY\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://mediapartybrownny2026.sched.com/event/670b87e46ee898e0fb5d5eb82625ce55
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DTSTAMP:20260508T162650Z
DTSTART:20260509T153000Z
DTEND:20260509T170000Z
SUMMARY:Introduction to Codex for Newsroom Workflows - OpenAI
DESCRIPTION:\n
CATEGORIES:WORKSHOP
LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, Pulitzer Hall
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://mediapartybrownny2026.sched.com/event/8d3752120318326a04801888fe931e28
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DTSTAMP:20260508T162650Z
DTSTART:20260509T180000Z
DTEND:20260509T183000Z
SUMMARY:Beyond Search: Building BOTO\, an AI News Bot for WhatsApp
DESCRIPTION:BOTO is an AI-powered WhatsApp bot created by InfoAmazonia to help people find trusted\, relevant\, and easy-to-understand news about the Amazon on the platform they already use every day. Built with large language models\, BOTO responds to a simple but urgent problem: in much of the Brazilian Amazon\, WhatsApp is a primary digital channel\, while access to reliable journalism remains uneven and fragmented.\nThe project uses AI to deliver geolocated news\, explain complex issues in simple language\, summarize stories\, personalize updates based on user interests\, and collect audience input for future coverage. But BOTO is not limited to InfoAmazonia’s own reporting. It is being designed to include stories from other outlets selected through InfoAmazonia’s editorial curation process\, based on reliability and relevance. The goal is to create a trusted entry point where users can find credible news about the places and issues they care about\, regardless of which outlet produced it. Rather than asking people to navigate brands\, websites\, or search results\, BOTO brings together trustworthy journalism in one conversational space. The product is being developed through an audience-centered process that includes testing\, focus groups\, and continuous feedback from real users across Amazon states.\nIn this keynote\, I’ll share the core question behind BOTO: how do you distribute trustworthy journalism in places where platform habits\, connectivity constraints\, and local information needs do not match the assumptions of mainstream digital news products? Then I’ll show how we are using AI inside WhatsApp not as a gimmick\, but as a practical layer for discovery\, distribution\, and engagement in public-interest journalism. Finally\, I’ll reflect on what we are learning about accessibility\, editorial trust\, audience behavior\, and the role of messaging platforms in the post-search era of news.
CATEGORIES:KEYNOTE
LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, Pulitzer Hall
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://mediapartybrownny2026.sched.com/event/74b8e41e4e957ecee9b9b290aa91ca2f
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DTSTAMP:20260508T162650Z
DTSTART:20260509T180000Z
DTEND:20260509T183000Z
SUMMARY:Partnering is Not Optional. Collaboration is a critical competency. Are we really treating it that way?
DESCRIPTION:\n
CATEGORIES:KEYNOTE
LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, Pulitzer Hall
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://mediapartybrownny2026.sched.com/event/c8ab937fdc5bdd09ae90992640208025
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DTSTAMP:20260508T162650Z
DTSTART:20260509T184500Z
DTEND:20260509T201500Z
SUMMARY:Build a Gemini-Powered YouTube Summarizer 
DESCRIPTION:Google Lab
CATEGORIES:WORKSHOP
LOCATION:Pulitzer Hall\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY 10027\, Estados Unidos
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://mediapartybrownny2026.sched.com/event/9db419af74df4abf95e79259a3cfd9bd
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DTSTAMP:20260508T162650Z
DTSTART:20260509T184500Z
DTEND:20260509T201500Z
SUMMARY:How to use Wiki APIs for your news publication (Wikimedia)
DESCRIPTION:we detail where and how of potential product solutions to solve common challenges that news websites currently have (SEO\, AI\, bounce rate\, reading time) using content/data APIs hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation
CATEGORIES:WORKSHOP
LOCATION:Brown Institute Space - Ground Floor\, New York\, NY\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://mediapartybrownny2026.sched.com/event/6e354193ed8e48562f9a3fbdf2d8022f
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DTSTAMP:20260508T162650Z
DTSTART:20260509T184500Z
DTEND:20260509T201500Z
SUMMARY:Turning the Funnel Sideways: The Modern Growth Playbook
DESCRIPTION:\n
CATEGORIES:WORKSHOP
LOCATION:World Room\, New York\, NY\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:3ead6b17f20813ec3a6170b7891fa178
URL:http://mediapartybrownny2026.sched.com/event/3ead6b17f20813ec3a6170b7891fa178
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DTSTAMP:20260508T162650Z
DTSTART:20260509T184500Z
DTEND:20260509T201500Z
SUMMARY:Using satellite imagery for journalism: From the basics to AI
DESCRIPTION:Using satellite imagery for journalism: From the basics to AI\; &nbsp\;Description: Satellite imagery is an increasingly important part of the journalistic process\, especially when reporting resources on the ground are limited. However\, it can feel technically and financially out of reach to small newsrooms. In this workshop\, we introduce the basics of satellite imagery for journalism using free tools\, and then experiment with AI tools that are changing how scientists and journalists use satellite imagery.
CATEGORIES:WORKSHOP
LOCATION:601B 6th floor\, New York\, NY\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
UID:aa7d2e281d63649b6eef48190f6367fd
URL:http://mediapartybrownny2026.sched.com/event/aa7d2e281d63649b6eef48190f6367fd
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260508T162650Z
DTSTART:20260509T203000Z
DTEND:20260509T220000Z
SUMMARY:AI in the Newsroom: Practical Workflows for Editors
DESCRIPTION:The session will focus on how small and mid-sized news organizations can leverage tools like ChatGPT\, NotebookLM\, and Google Pinpoint to strengthen reporting\, streamline editorial operations\, and extend the capacity of lean teams—without compromising journalistic standards.\nLeading this workshop is Vania André\, the Publisher and Editor in Chief of The Haitian Times. Vania will draw on her direct experience implementing AI at every step of The Haitian Times’ editorial workflow\, from editing\, to data visualizations\, to producing scripts for social media videos.\nThe workshop’s co-presenter\, Natalie Van Hoozer\, will provide additional case studies of other independent\, local digital news organizations across the country utilizing AI in their editorial and operations processes. In Natalie’s work with independent\, digital news around the U.S. and Canada\, she sees firsthand how these news organizations maintain trust with the local communities they serve while implementing new tech and AI workflows. One example Natalie will highlight is Mat-Su Sentinel\, a local publication serving a rural Alaska community.
CATEGORIES:WORKSHOP
LOCATION:World Room\, New York\, NY\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://mediapartybrownny2026.sched.com/event/a82aa1b44734eb9e232e16408eed038f
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DTSTAMP:20260508T162650Z
DTSTART:20260509T203000Z
DTEND:20260509T220000Z
SUMMARY:Local Models to search through (Epstein) files
DESCRIPTION:"Local Models to search through (Epstein) files" will cover tool building and data analysis methods using local models\, with Epstein files as the case study\, but applicable to any big data set a newsroom might have. The purpose is leave the workshop with the tools to go through a simple set up of local models and an llm-based analysis that can power an internal tool interface that can be vibe-coded. All these tools\, techniques and frameworks can later be applied to the prototyping process that teams will need to go through for the hackathon part of the event.&nbsp\;
CATEGORIES:WORKSHOP
LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, Pulitzer Hall
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://mediapartybrownny2026.sched.com/event/30057ac225ea9748aea684c390550d1d
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DTSTAMP:20260508T162650Z
DTSTART:20260509T203000Z
DTEND:20260509T220000Z
SUMMARY:Making Vertical Video: A Hands-on Workshop
DESCRIPTION:A 90 minute workshop on getting started with vertical video from writing\, to shooting and publishing.&nbsp\;
CATEGORIES:WORKSHOP
LOCATION:601B 6th floor\, New York\, NY\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://mediapartybrownny2026.sched.com/event/2568c124e0703a7647c33b84f403f504
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DTSTAMP:20260508T162650Z
DTSTART:20260509T203000Z
DTEND:20260509T220000Z
SUMMARY:Reaching the Audience That Gave Up on News: What We Learned from 200 Classrooms and 25 Campuses
DESCRIPTION:Most news organizations know they're losing young audiences. Few have real data on what actually brings them back. I do. Over the past year\, Newsreel has been deployed in 200+ classrooms and libraries\, with 41 student fellows running peer-to-peer news engagement programs across 25 universities including UNC\, NYU\, Northwestern\, UC Berkeley\, and Cambridge. Our month-one retention is 35%\, which is 3-5x the news app industry average. A study of 277 Penn State students found 65% planned to keep using the platform after course requirements ended.\nIn this workshop\, I'll share the raw data behind what worked and what didn't\, then participants will build their own audience strategy using the frameworks we developed. We'll work through three exercises: (1) mapping your current audience gap by analyzing who you're reaching vs. who you're missing\, (2) designing an institutional distribution channel (schools\, libraries\, community orgs) that creates habitual use without paid acquisition\, and (3) building a peer ambassador program modeled on our campus fellows playbook.\nThis is not a panel about "reaching Gen Z." It is a working session where you leave with a concrete distribution plan built on real engagement data from real young readers.
CATEGORIES:WORKSHOP
LOCATION:Brown Institute Space - Ground Floor\, New York\, NY\, USA
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://mediapartybrownny2026.sched.com/event/f06783a4e67cac72bf0847b32bc22408
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DTSTAMP:20260508T162650Z
DTSTART:20260509T221500Z
DTEND:20260509T230000Z
SUMMARY:A new era of open source audience tools
DESCRIPTION:At Alley\, we're working on an open-source audience toolkit for publishers. We observe that mid-sized and larger media organizations have fewer and worse options for payment acceptance\, customer data and identity management\, and authentication than do startup and indie publishers. We launched our tools on LAist.com\, a major public radio digital platform in Southern California\, and are soon to launch them with Chicago Public Media. I'll show our work\, describe the project\, and discuss the mandate to a new era of open source technology in the LLM era of news product development.
CATEGORIES:LIGHTNING TALK
LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, Pulitzer Hall
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://mediapartybrownny2026.sched.com/event/4c5664fcf7fd981eeef8053645fb6f69
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DTSTAMP:20260508T162650Z
DTSTART:20260509T221500Z
DTEND:20260509T230000Z
SUMMARY:Build For Creators
DESCRIPTION:At NowThis\, we don't have a big engineering team. So I built AI tools myself to solve the problems our newsroom actually has.\nIn 5 minutes\, I'll walk through three internal tools I shipped:- A synthetic audience panel: AI-generated Gen Z personas that simulate focus group feedback on content before we publish\, helping us catch tone and framing issues early.- An AI ad ops assistant: a Slack bot that manages paid campaigns across Meta and TikTok\, pulls real-time analytics from API and data warehouse\, and saves our team hours of manual reporting.- An AI pilot tool: lets our team generate AI-powered pre-pilots to visualize new show concepts before committing resources\nI'll share what actually worked\, what flopped\, and the practical lessons for any lean media team thinking about building (not buying) AI tools. No massive budget required.
CATEGORIES:LIGHTNING TALK
LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, Pulitzer Hall
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://mediapartybrownny2026.sched.com/event/303eecd8c101830a553acd0e78b644d9
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DTSTAMP:20260508T162650Z
DTSTART:20260509T221500Z
DTEND:20260509T230000Z
SUMMARY:Can AI Triage a Pitch? A Case Study in Editorial Evaluation
DESCRIPTION:Small\, mission-driven newsrooms face a persistent editorial bottleneck: too many pitches\, too few editors\, and a set of editorial values around representation\, framing\, and sourcing that resist easy automation. At Minority Africa\, a Uganda based publication covering minorities on the continent\, we wanted to know whether AI could help triage our now too many pitches without flattening the judgment behind it.\nIn 2025\, we built Iraka\, a custom GPT-based tool trained on a structured dataset of over 400 de-identified historical pitches paired with editorial decisions\, reviewer comments\, and outcome labels. The system prompt encodes Minority Africa's editorial criteria (including originality\, representational depth\, feasibility\, and alignment with the publication's justice-oriented mission) and the tool returns a decision prediction (accept\, develop\, or reject)\, a score out of five\, and written feedback designed to mirror the developmental tone of our editorial process.\nIn phase one\, we benchmarked Iraka against real pitches it had not previously seen. It matched editorial decisions about 70% of the time\, but feedback alignment was significantly lower at around 30%\, showing that while decision replication is achievable\, generating the kind of nuanced\, contextual feedback editors actually give remains a major gap. We also tried to build it across different models with varied outcomes. \nPhase two\, now underway\, targets the feedback layer directly. We are building synthetic and counterfactual pitch sets — controlled variations where elements like framing\, sourcing\, or representation are intentionally altered — to stress-test the tool on edge cases and ethical dilemmas absent from our historical data. \nThis talk shares what we built\, what it got right\, where it broke down\, and the harder question underneath: what does it mean to encode editorial values into AI when those values center justice and representation?
CATEGORIES:LIGHTNING TALK
LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, Pulitzer Hall
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://mediapartybrownny2026.sched.com/event/0ac78140cfa912d9caecc3224763bc60
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DTSTAMP:20260508T162650Z
DTSTART:20260509T221500Z
DTEND:20260509T230000Z
SUMMARY:Global Index of Responsible AI
DESCRIPTION:The Global Index of Responsible AI measures how countries are honoring their international commitments on AI governance and responsible AI\, especially those tied to UNESCO’s Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. The project tracks 17 responsible AI topics\, assessing whether countries have relevant laws\, regulations\, and real-world implementation\, using a global network of 135 researchers—one in each country—who contribute data every two years. Beyond serving as a diagnostic tool for international organizations\, the project also has strong value for journalists because it offers open\, comparable data that helps contextualize public debates on AI\, identify regulatory gaps\, and bring a globally informed but locally grounded perspective led by a South African organization.
CATEGORIES:LIGHTNING TALK
LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, Pulitzer Hall
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://mediapartybrownny2026.sched.com/event/05d19dbfef0ed003256d15475101f3f5
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DTSTAMP:20260508T162650Z
DTSTART:20260509T221500Z
DTEND:20260509T230000Z
SUMMARY:Pivot to Profit: Audience-driven sustainability or expensive delusion?
DESCRIPTION:Stop chasing the latest viral distractions and consider the insights from three real-world case studies that demonstrate how building engaged audiences with journalistic impact can lead to long-term success. SembraMedia’s co-founder Janine Warner draws on research on more than 3\,000 media organizations and news creators in the Project Oasis global media initiative to share a few innovative gems\, and one cautionary tale.
CATEGORIES:LIGHTNING TALK
LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, Pulitzer Hall
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://mediapartybrownny2026.sched.com/event/fd8fb6aa6884600cc9e151cd9eba4614
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DTSTAMP:20260508T162650Z
DTSTART:20260509T221500Z
DTEND:20260509T230000Z
SUMMARY:Spreadsheet Inference: What is it? How did it get here? Where will it go?
DESCRIPTION:What happens when you embed an AI engineer inside a newsroom and tell them to help wherever needed? At ProPublica\, it led to “Spreadsheet Inference\,” a method that combines the rigor of spreadsheet reporting with the scale of AI. This lightning talk will give a brief overview of how real investigations became product iterations\, not the other way around. You'll see how the team turned iteration and empty into documentation\, then code notebooks and eventually a fully featured Google Sheets plugin.
CATEGORIES:LIGHTNING TALK
LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, Pulitzer Hall
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://mediapartybrownny2026.sched.com/event/9a60d8aeee0d748a7adb0986a64854ce
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DTSTAMP:20260508T162650Z
DTSTART:20260510T133000Z
DTEND:20260510T140000Z
SUMMARY:Opening and reception (Breakfast included!)
DESCRIPTION:\n
CATEGORIES:HACKATON
LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, Pulitzer Hall
SEQUENCE:0
UID:769a102c76ac6c968ea3c3418ea5fa08
URL:http://mediapartybrownny2026.sched.com/event/769a102c76ac6c968ea3c3418ea5fa08
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DTSTAMP:20260508T162650Z
DTSTART:20260510T140000Z
DTEND:20260510T150000Z
SUMMARY:Hackathon - Ideas presentations (bring your project or join a team!)
DESCRIPTION:\n
CATEGORIES:HACKATON
LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, Pulitzer Hall
SEQUENCE:0
UID:d28cdcb149943fced6ee4c05fbe017ae
URL:http://mediapartybrownny2026.sched.com/event/d28cdcb149943fced6ee4c05fbe017ae
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DTSTAMP:20260508T162650Z
DTSTART:20260510T150000Z
DTEND:20260510T153000Z
SUMMARY:Hackathon (teams building)
DESCRIPTION:\n
CATEGORIES:HACKATON
LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, Pulitzer Hall
SEQUENCE:0
UID:5f8d9d2eca5df66f27315751ca3782fa
URL:http://mediapartybrownny2026.sched.com/event/5f8d9d2eca5df66f27315751ca3782fa
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DTSTAMP:20260508T162650Z
DTSTART:20260510T153000Z
DTEND:20260510T200000Z
SUMMARY:Hackathon (prototypes building process) Lunch included
DESCRIPTION:\n
CATEGORIES:HACKATON
LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, Pulitzer Hall
SEQUENCE:0
UID:e753cc4b54a223bc78910ecdb302c2bf
URL:http://mediapartybrownny2026.sched.com/event/e753cc4b54a223bc78910ecdb302c2bf
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DTSTAMP:20260508T162650Z
DTSTART:20260510T200000Z
DTEND:20260510T213000Z
SUMMARY:Hackathon Pitch sessions
DESCRIPTION:\n
CATEGORIES:HACKATON
LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, Pulitzer Hall
SEQUENCE:0
UID:892b1510c04da29341c974fdbaf3d23c
URL:http://mediapartybrownny2026.sched.com/event/892b1510c04da29341c974fdbaf3d23c
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