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Blockchain to Power Journalism

  • David Turner
  • Vivian Schiller
  • Moderated by David Cohn

Beyond the hairpin twists of crypto fortunes, blockchain is the foundational technology of an emerging culture ecosystem. In this singular moment, media producers have the...

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Breaking Records and Answering Questions: Nordic Local Election Coverage

  • Magnus Bjerg
  • Fredrik Laurin
  • Teemo Tebest
  • Moderated by Sarita Blomqvist

Few news sites’ best-ever traffic day was a local election, but for one Danish publisher, hyperlocal, highly-personalized mobile applications helped hook readers like never...

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Building Better Tools to Understand Voters and Their Choices

  • David Scott
  • Ashley Alvarado
  • Peter Beshai
  • Julia Haslanger

By using emerging technologies in public opinion polling, social listening and personalized research as well as innovative audience engagement strategies, journalists can move...

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Building Sources and Trust in Hard-to-Reach Communities

  • Rachel Glickhouse
  • María Sánchez Díez
  • Julia B. Chan

Reporting on marginalized and hard-to-reach communities is particularly challenging, intensive work, but engaged reporting — across a variety of mediums — holds the key to...

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Building Your Freelancer Brand: Pitch Editors, Tell Stories, Get Paid

  • Kristen Lepore
  • Usha Sahay
  • Ankita Rao
  • Moderated by Meena Thiruvengadam

Freelancers without institutional affiliation rely on editors to survive, but are often working blind about what they look for and how they field pitches. Learning how to...

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Closed Networks are Revolutionary for Oppressed People and Reporters Covering Them

  • Thalia Beaty
  • Kevin Nguyen
  • Layla Mashkoor
  • Moderated by Rachel Glickhouse

Where social media is banned or monitored, closed networks and encrypted messengers like Telegram and WhatsApp allow activists and the journalists who cover them an avenue for...

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Deep Dive into Audience Engagement: New Tools, Personalization, Audio, and More

  • Moderated by Penny Riordan

There are so many types of tech tools and strategies out there that can help publishers and content creators build a greater and more loyal audience. You can choose to develop...

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Deep Dive into Data: Find It, Verify It, Visualize It

  • Moderated by Darla Cameron

There is so much data out there — but how do you find the good stuff? How do you know what types are quality vs. should be avoided? And once you have that data, what are...

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Deep Dive into Video Programming: Building Credibility, Understanding AI, + Exploring New Tools

  • Rohan Castelino
  • Tessa Sproule
  • Will Jamieson
  • Michael Shabun
  • Moderated by Imaeyen Ibanga

Video is the dominant media form for the next generation of information audiences. Getting credible video in front of the right audience when they need it is the preeminent...

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Amy Webb

Founder and CEO, Future Today Institute

Versha Sharma

Editor-in-Chief, Teen Vogue

Ashley Alvarado

Vice President of Community Engagement and Strategic Initiatives, Southern California Public Radio

Fergus Bell

Founder & CEO, Fathm

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