Technology
Drones: Innovative Storytelling Tools
- Dale Blasingame
- Sara Shields
Much more than a shiny, new toy for photographers and videographers, drones are an innovative, increasingly popular storytelling tool that journalists and newsrooms are using in a ...
Machine Learning and You: Boost Audience Engagement, Change Readers’ Habits
- Dan Ratner
The pervasiveness of news has led to a publication agnosticism that seriously threatens reader loyalty and audience engagement. Machine learning, through augmented content and...
Setting the Record Straight by Going Wayback
- Mark Graham
The public web is a fact checker’s dream, but not everything stays up forever. More than just an invaluable contribution to collective memory, the practice of web crawling,...
The Fear of AI: When Humans and Robots Just Don’t Get Along
- Judy King
- Quin Murray
Artificial intelligence and machine learning skeptics find sympathetic ears in many newsrooms, where journalists dismiss, criticize and even fear automated tech. Successful...
The Future of Content Creation, Layout, and Curation in WordPress (aka Gutenberg)
- Steph Yiu
- Ryan Sholin
- Shannon Smith
WordPress and digital journalism have been BFFs forever and have been complementary to each other over the years. Early on, WordPress provided the freedom for journalists (and...
Why Should I Care About AI?
- Paul Cheung
- Lisa Gibbs
- Latoya Peterson
- Meredith Broussard
From the autonomous systems driving the Facebook News Feed to enabling ever more believable fake audio and video, AI is poised to have a major role in shaping the future of news...
[BLANK] is the Future of Journalism
- Jahna Berry
- Matt Thompson
- Justin Myers
- Amanda Zamora
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Moderated by Robert Hernandez
It’s the one thing that’s going to save journalism … and you get to decide what it is! Our twist on a live improv game offers a fun and informative look at emerging tools...
Blockchain Technology for Sustainable Journalism
- Daniel Sieberg
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Moderated by Alexandra Posadzki
Blockchain technology – which powers cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, but also powers the likes of Ethereum, which allows for building decentralized apps – holds promise for...
2017’s Tech Trends in Journalism
- Amy Webb
This perennially packed session brings the future-think to ONA17. Amy Webb will demo never-before-seen tech prototypes … and this year, she has a few extra surprises in store in ...