Media Party New York @ Brown - 2026: Full Schedule

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1) Media Party Opening - Media Fair

Friday May 8, 2026 5:00pm - 5:30pm EDT

Lobby

Friday May 8, 2026 5:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
Lobby

Media Fair

5:00pm EDT

Anfibia

Friday May 8, 2026 5:00pm - 5:30pm EDT

Lobby

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?We work at the intersection of investigative reporting, literary nonfiction, performance art, and editorial innovation. Our hypothesis is that journalism must move beyond...
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Speakers

Silvina Heguy

Director of Project Management, Anfibia

I am a project director and lead strategic and editorial initiatives at Revista Anfibia in Argentina. I coordinate the Anfibia–Guernica37 International Justice Chambers network, a cross-border project focused on freedom of expression and the protection of journalists in Latin A... Read More →

Friday May 8, 2026 5:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
Lobby

Media Fair

5:00pm EDT

Code For Africa

Friday May 8, 2026 5:00pm - 5:30pm EDT

Lobby

Speakers

Jacopo Ottaviani

Chief Data Officer and Senior Strategist, Code for Africa

Friday May 8, 2026 5:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
Lobby

Media Fair

5:00pm EDT

Daily Maverick

Friday May 8, 2026 5:00pm - 5:30pm EDT

Lobby

Speakers

Kathryn Kotze

Head of Operations and Impact, Daily Maverick

Friday May 8, 2026 5:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
Lobby

Media Fair

5:00pm EDT

Global Index of Responsible AI

Friday May 8, 2026 5:00pm - 5:30pm EDT

Lobby

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...
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Speakers

Nicolás Grossman

Friday May 8, 2026 5:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
Lobby

Media Fair

5:00pm EDT

Google Developer Experts

Friday May 8, 2026 5:00pm - 5:30pm EDT

Lobby

Speakers

Madona S Wambua

Expert & Adjunct Professor, Google Developer Expert

Friday May 8, 2026 5:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
Lobby

Media Fair

5:00pm EDT

Infoamazonia

Friday May 8, 2026 5:00pm - 5:30pm EDT

Lobby

Speakers

Stefano Wrobleski

Executive Director, InfoAmazonia

Executive Director of InfoAmazonia, where he leads organizational strategy, coordinates multidisciplinary teams, develops partnerships, oversees funding and budgets, and guides data and technology initiatives. With degrees in Journalism and History and a master’s in Digital Journalism... Read More →

Friday May 8, 2026 5:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
Lobby

Media Fair

5:00pm EDT

Redline

Friday May 8, 2026 5:00pm - 5:30pm EDT

Lobby

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...
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Speakers

Jonathan Soma

Knight Chair in Data Journalism, Redline

Jonathan Soma is the Knight Chair in Data Journalism at Columbia University, where he serves as Director of the Data Journalism MS program and the Lede Program, an intensive data journalism summer course. His lectures cover everything from basic Python and data analysis to interactive... Read More →

Friday May 8, 2026 5:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
Lobby

Media Fair

5:00pm EDT

WP News: Action Journalism Ecosystem (Hispabot & Sutita Rimay)

Friday May 8, 2026 5:00pm - 5:30pm EDT

Lobby

Speakers

Elvis Franks Herrada Erquiaga

CEO-FOUNDER, WP NEWS

White Plains News is a hyperlocal journalism platform that combats disinformation by transforming information into tangible resources for the immigrant community of Westchester, NY. To achieve this, we have developed two disruptive AI tools:

SUTITA RIMAY: A fact-checking bot that... Read More →

Friday May 8, 2026 5:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
Lobby

Media Fair

5:50pm EDT

After the Feed: AI and the future of the information environment

Friday May 8, 2026 5:50pm - 6:05pm EDT

Brown Institute Space - Ground Floor

Speakers

Eli Pariser

Co-Director, New_Public

Friday May 8, 2026 5:50pm - 6:05pm EDT
Brown Institute Space - Ground Floor

Keynote

6:08pm EDT

AI Is Rewriting Media Innovation And Bringing Us Closer to Our Communities?

Friday May 8, 2026 6:08pm - 6:23pm EDT

Brown Institute Space - Ground Floor

Speakers

Laura Zommer

CEO, FactChequeado

Friday May 8, 2026 6:08pm - 6:23pm EDT
Brown Institute Space - Ground Floor

Keynote

6:26pm EDT

The Rise of the 1-person Media Company

Friday May 8, 2026 6:26pm - 6:41pm EDT

Brown Institute Space - Ground Floor

How to transition from reporting for traditional newsrooms to running your own media company.

Speakers

Hope King

Founder, Macro Talk News

Friday May 8, 2026 6:26pm - 6:41pm EDT
Brown Institute Space - Ground Floor

Keynote

6:44pm EDT

AI is neither good, nor bad; nor is it neutral

Friday May 8, 2026 6:44pm - 6:59pm EDT

Brown Institute Space - Ground Floor

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...
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Speakers

Alexios Mantzarlis

Co-founder, Indicator

Friday May 8, 2026 6:44pm - 6:59pm EDT
Brown Institute Space - Ground Floor

Keynote

7:01pm EDT

From a community to a global engine - Where is Media Party going?

Friday May 8, 2026 7:01pm - 7:04pm EDT

Brown Institute Space - Ground Floor

How Media Party has evolved over time, and how is creating a global laboratory for media innovation

Speakers

Mariano Blejman

Director, Media Party

Friday May 8, 2026 7:01pm - 7:04pm EDT
Brown Institute Space - Ground Floor

Transition

7:05pm EDT

From audience engagement to community co-creation: a case study

Friday May 8, 2026 7:05pm - 7:10pm EDT

Brown Institute Space - Ground Floor

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....
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Speakers

Logan Williams

Technology Officer, Bellingcat

Friday May 8, 2026 7:05pm - 7:10pm EDT
Brown Institute Space - Ground Floor

Lightning Talk

7:12pm EDT

The Emerging Creator News & Information Field - New Research Insights

Friday May 8, 2026 7:12pm - 7:17pm EDT

Brown Institute Space - Ground Floor

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.

Speakers

Amy Mitchell

Executive Director, USA, Center for News, Technology and Innovation

Amy S. Mitchell is the founding Executive Director of the Center for News, Technology & Innovation. Prior to her role at CNTI, Mitchell served as Managing Director of news and Information Research at the Pew Research Center. In her 25 years with Pew Research, Mitchell helped launch... Read More →

Friday May 8, 2026 7:12pm - 7:17pm EDT
Brown Institute Space - Ground Floor

Lightning Talk

7:19pm EDT

The power of Wikipedia to highlight great news

Friday May 8, 2026 7:19pm - 7:24pm EDT

Brown Institute Space - Ground Floor

Women on Wikipedia

Speakers

Molly Stark Dean

Board, Wikimedia NYC

I'm on the board of Women Do News. My media experience in audience development includes work at Fox News, CBS News, Reuters, CoinDesk and CNN. I will present my work with Women Do News: Women journalists are underrepresented on Wikipedia, one of the most-visited English-language websites... Read More →

Friday May 8, 2026 7:19pm - 7:24pm EDT
Brown Institute Space - Ground Floor

Lightning Talk

10:00am EDT

What Is Independent Media, Anyway? How AI Is Changing Our Answer (Again).

Saturday May 9, 2026 10:00am - 10:15am EDT

Lecture Hall

Speakers

Harlan Mandel

CEO, Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF)

Harlan Mandel is CEO of Media Development Investment Fund, a mission-driven fund that offers debt and equity financing to independent media companies providing the news, information and debate that people need to build free, thriving societies. MDIF operates in countries across Africa... Read More →

Saturday May 9, 2026 10:00am - 10:15am EDT
Lecture Hall Pulitzer Hall

Keynote

10:18am EDT

Journalism First. What If AI Handled the Rest?

Saturday May 9, 2026 10:18am - 10:33am EDT

Lecture Hall

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.

Speakers

Kathryn Kotze

Head of Operations and Impact, Daily Maverick

Saturday May 9, 2026 10:18am - 10:33am EDT
Lecture Hall Pulitzer Hall

Keynote

10:36am EDT

Africa Mining Watch: how to build a community around an environmental journalism tool

Saturday May 9, 2026 10:36am - 10:51am EDT

Lecture Hall

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...
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Speakers

Jacopo Ottaviani

Chief Data Officer and Senior Strategist, Code for Africa

Saturday May 9, 2026 10:36am - 10:51am EDT
Lecture Hall Pulitzer Hall

Keynote

10:54am EDT

The Big Split: where news value lands in an agentic future

Saturday May 9, 2026 10:54am - 11:09am EDT

Lecture Hall

Speakers

Joanna Geary

Bloomberg

Joanna led the global Curation team at Twitter, which was responsible for editorial curation, content intelligence and uplifting credible information on the platform. The team assisted product teams with the expertise needed to solve content and context problems across the platform... Read More →

Saturday May 9, 2026 10:54am - 11:09am EDT
Lecture Hall Pulitzer Hall

Keynote

11:30am EDT

AI Tools That Won't Get You Fired

Saturday May 9, 2026 11:30am - 1:00pm EDT

World Room

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...
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Speakers

Mike Reilley

Senior Lecturer | Newsroom Trainer, UIC - Journalist's Toolbox

Mike is the author of two books, "Data + Journalism" and "The Journalist's Toolbox: A Guide to Digital Reporting and AI". He is the lead trainer for the ONA/Microsoft AI in Journalism training program and the RTDNA-Google Election Fact-Checking program.

When he’s not doing trainings, he teaches data and multimedia journalism at the University of Illinois-Chicago, where he has been a full-time faculty member for eight years. A former reporter at the LA Times and a founding web editor at the Chicago Tribune, Mike served for 13 years... Read More →

Saturday May 9, 2026 11:30am - 1:00pm EDT
World Room

Workshop

11:30am EDT

Creator Providers: Who are you, What do you need & How can you become one?

Saturday May 9, 2026 11:30am - 1:00pm EDT

607B - 6th floor

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...
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Speakers

Justin Bank

Founder, Independent Journalism Atlas

Amy Mitchell

Executive Director, USA, Center for News, Technology and Innovation

Saturday May 9, 2026 11:30am - 1:00pm EDT
607B - 6th floor

Workshop

11:30am EDT

Enigma Government Archive

Saturday May 9, 2026 11:30am - 1:00pm EDT

Brown Institute Space - Ground Floor

Traditional journalism is losing distribution. Creators are winning it.In this hands-on workshop, participants will transform journalistic content into creator-style formats optimized for reach, trust, and platform dynamics.Drawing 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...
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Speakers

Charles Berret

Content Lead, Enigma Technologies

Saturday May 9, 2026 11:30am - 1:00pm EDT
Brown Institute Space - Ground Floor

Workshop

11:30am EDT

How Social Media Algorithms Amplify Hate Speech: Case Study of Sudanese Refugees in Cairo

Saturday May 9, 2026 11:30am - 1:00pm EDT

601B 6th floor

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.

Speakers

Eslam Hamedan

Founder, Marketology Digitx Lab

Sudanese blogger Since 2007, E-marketing specializes and human rights activist, Co-founder of Sudanese bloggers network without borders, a member of Arab blogs and a founding member of the Arab Women's Parliament.
Bachelor's of Administrative Sciences from the Open University of S... Read More →

Saturday May 9, 2026 11:30am - 1:00pm EDT
601B 6th floor

Workshop

11:30am EDT

Introduction to Codex for Newsroom Workflows - OpenAI

Saturday May 9, 2026 11:30am - 1:00pm EDT

Lecture Hall

Speakers

Christina Lim

Evan Hirsch

Saturday May 9, 2026 11:30am - 1:00pm EDT
Lecture Hall Pulitzer Hall

Workshop

2:00pm EDT

Beyond Search: Building BOTO, an AI News Bot for WhatsApp

Saturday May 9, 2026 2:00pm - 2:30pm EDT

Lecture Hall

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...
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Speakers

Stefano Wrobleski

Executive Director, InfoAmazonia

Saturday May 9, 2026 2:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Lecture Hall Pulitzer Hall

Keynote

2:00pm EDT

Partnering is Not Optional. Collaboration is a critical competency. Are we really treating it that way?

Saturday May 9, 2026 2:00pm - 2:30pm EDT

Lecture Hall

Speakers

Lisa Gibbs

President and CEO, Pulitzer Center

Saturday May 9, 2026 2:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
Lecture Hall Pulitzer Hall

Keynote

2:45pm EDT

Build a Gemini-Powered YouTube Summarizer

Saturday May 9, 2026 2:45pm - 4:15pm EDT

Pulitzer Hall

Google Lab

Speakers

Madona S Wambua

Expert & Adjunct Professor, Google Developer Expert

Saturday May 9, 2026 2:45pm - 4:15pm EDT
Pulitzer Hall 2950 Broadway, New York, NY 10027, Estados Unidos

Workshop

2:45pm EDT

How to use Wiki APIs for your news publication (Wikimedia)

Saturday May 9, 2026 2:45pm - 4:15pm EDT

Brown Institute Space - Ground Floor

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

Speakers

Hal Triedman

Wikimedia Foundation

Brandon Tracy

Product Lead, Wikimedia Foundation

Sucheta Salgaonkar

AI/ML Product Lead, Wikimedia Foundation

Saturday May 9, 2026 2:45pm - 4:15pm EDT
Brown Institute Space - Ground Floor

Workshop

2:45pm EDT

Turning the Funnel Sideways: The Modern Growth Playbook

Saturday May 9, 2026 2:45pm - 4:15pm EDT

World Room

Speakers

Justin Bank

Founder, Independent Journalism Atlas

Saturday May 9, 2026 2:45pm - 4:15pm EDT
World Room

Workshop

2:45pm EDT

Using satellite imagery for journalism: From the basics to AI

Saturday May 9, 2026 2:45pm - 4:15pm EDT

601B 6th floor

Using satellite imagery for journalism: From the basics to AI; 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...
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Speakers

Logan Williams

Technology Officer, Bellingcat

Saturday May 9, 2026 2:45pm - 4:15pm EDT
601B 6th floor

Workshop

4:30pm EDT

AI in the Newsroom: Practical Workflows for Editors

Saturday May 9, 2026 4:30pm - 6:00pm EDT

World Room

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.Leading this workshop is Vania André, the Publisher and Editor in Chief of The Haitian Times. Vania will draw on her direct...
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Speakers

Natalie Van Hoozer

Community Manager, LION Publishers

Vania André

Publisher & Editor-in-Chief, The Haitian Times

Saturday May 9, 2026 4:30pm - 6:00pm EDT
World Room

Workshop

4:30pm EDT

Local Models to search through (Epstein) files

Saturday May 9, 2026 4:30pm - 6:00pm EDT

Lecture Hall

"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...
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Speakers

Teresa Mondría Terol

Senior Product Manager, AI Labs, NPR

Saturday May 9, 2026 4:30pm - 6:00pm EDT
Lecture Hall Pulitzer Hall

Workshop

4:30pm EDT

Making Vertical Video: A Hands-on Workshop

Saturday May 9, 2026 4:30pm - 6:00pm EDT

601B 6th floor

A 90 minute workshop on getting started with vertical video from writing, to shooting and publishing.

Speakers

Lauren Saks

Executive Editor, LNI Media

I make social news videos for audiences that may not get their news from traditional sources. I work with Dave Jorgenson and Micah Gelman to deliver the news to YouTube, TikTok and Instagram through daily shorts. We also help newsrooms and non-profits develop their social video strategies... Read More →

Micah Gelman

CEO, Local News International

Micah Gelman is a media executive with more than 25 years’ experience in online video and cable and broadcast television.

For the last decade, Micah was Head of Video for The Washington Post, where he is responsible for all editorial and business functions. Micah led a 75-person team publishing long and short-form video. He created Washington Post Universe, the open-source based Visual Investigations... Read More →

Saturday May 9, 2026 4:30pm - 6:00pm EDT
601B 6th floor

Workshop

4:30pm EDT

Reaching the Audience That Gave Up on News: What We Learned from 200 Classrooms and 25 Campuses

Saturday May 9, 2026 4:30pm - 6:00pm EDT

Brown Institute Space - Ground Floor

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...
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Speakers

Brijesh

Co-Founder/CTO, Newsreel

Jack Brewster

CEO and founder, Newsreel

Saturday May 9, 2026 4:30pm - 6:00pm EDT
Brown Institute Space - Ground Floor

Workshop

6:15pm EDT

A new era of open source audience tools

Saturday May 9, 2026 6:15pm - 7:00pm EDT

Lecture Hall

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...
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Speakers

Austin Smith

President of Alley / Adjunct Asst. Professor of Journalism, Alley Interactive / CUNY Newmark

Saturday May 9, 2026 6:15pm - 7:00pm EDT
Lecture Hall Pulitzer Hall

Lightning Talk

6:15pm EDT

Build For Creators

Saturday May 9, 2026 6:15pm - 7:00pm EDT

Lecture Hall

At NowThis, we don't have a big engineering team. So I built AI tools myself to solve the problems our newsroom actually has.In 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...
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Speakers

Sirui Hua

Head of Audience and Analytics, NowThis Media

Saturday May 9, 2026 6:15pm - 7:00pm EDT
Lecture Hall Pulitzer Hall

Lightning Talk

6:15pm EDT

Can AI Triage a Pitch? A Case Study in Editorial Evaluation

Saturday May 9, 2026 6:15pm - 7:00pm EDT

Lecture Hall

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...
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Speakers

Caleb Okereke

Executive Director, Minority Africa

Caleb Okereke is the Founder and Executive Editor of Minority Africa, and a Nigerian journalist who has reported across Africa for CNN, Aljazeera, BBC, Foreign Policy, VICE News, The Guardian, Deutsche Welle and NPR. Currently, he’s a PhD student in Interdisciplinary Design and... Read More →

Saturday May 9, 2026 6:15pm - 7:00pm EDT
Lecture Hall Pulitzer Hall

Lightning Talk

6:15pm EDT

Global Index of Responsible AI

Saturday May 9, 2026 6:15pm - 7:00pm EDT

Lecture Hall

Speakers

Nicolás Grossman

Saturday May 9, 2026 6:15pm - 7:00pm EDT
Lecture Hall Pulitzer Hall

Lightning Talk

6:15pm EDT

Pivot to Profit: Audience-driven sustainability or expensive delusion?

Saturday May 9, 2026 6:15pm - 7:00pm EDT

Lecture Hall

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,...
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Speakers

Janine Warner

Co-founder and Executive Director, SembraMedia

Janine Warner es co-fundadora de SembraMedia, una organización sin fines de lucro dedicada a incrementar la diversidad de voces y calidad del contenido en español, ayudando a emprendedores de medios digitales a ser más exitosos y sostenibles. Es pionera en periodismo digital y... Read More →

Saturday May 9, 2026 6:15pm - 7:00pm EDT
Lecture Hall Pulitzer Hall

Lightning Talk

6:15pm EDT

Spreadsheet Inference: What is it? How did it get here? Where will it go?

Saturday May 9, 2026 6:15pm - 7:00pm EDT

Lecture Hall

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...
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Speakers

Aaron Brezel

AI Engineering Fellow, ProPublica

Saturday May 9, 2026 6:15pm - 7:00pm EDT
Lecture Hall Pulitzer Hall

Lightning Talk

9:30am EDT

Opening and reception (Breakfast included!)

Sunday May 10, 2026 9:30am - 10:00am EDT

Lecture Hall

Sunday May 10, 2026 9:30am - 10:00am EDT
Lecture Hall Pulitzer Hall

Hackaton

10:00am EDT

Hackathon - Ideas presentations (bring your project or join a team!)

Sunday May 10, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am EDT

Lecture Hall

Sunday May 10, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
Lecture Hall Pulitzer Hall

Hackaton

11:00am EDT

Hackathon (teams building)

Sunday May 10, 2026 11:00am - 11:30am EDT

Lecture Hall

Sunday May 10, 2026 11:00am - 11:30am EDT
Lecture Hall Pulitzer Hall

Hackaton

11:30am EDT

Hackathon (prototypes building process) Lunch included

Sunday May 10, 2026 11:30am - 4:00pm EDT

Lecture Hall

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Lecture Hall Pulitzer Hall

Hackaton

4:00pm EDT

Hackathon Pitch sessions

Sunday May 10, 2026 4:00pm - 5:30pm EDT

Lecture Hall

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Lecture Hall Pulitzer Hall

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