University of Wisconsin–Madison

Month: January 2026

The Lab Launches a Free OSINT Course for Journalists

Would you like to get familiar with open-source investigations or refresh your knowledge of the latest OSINT tools and techniques? At Factchequeado, in partnership with the Public Tech Media Lab at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, we will offer an intensive OSINT course for journalists, led by Guillén Torres Sepúlveda, an open-source investigations specialist. It will be offered in Spanish …

Q&A with Nadja Schaetz: How AI Hype Shapes Newsroom Decisions

by Soyeong Cho Artificial intelligence (AI) is often discussed in journalism as a question of whether the technology lives up to its promises. But researcher Nadja Schaetz, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Hamburg and a faculty associate at the Public Tech Media Lab, points to an underexplored question: How do AI expectations already …