On April 8, 2026, the Public Tech Media Lab hosted its first pre-conference, Journalism, Platforms, and Public Interest Technologies: Applying PIT to Rebuild Trust, Infrastructure, and Civic Purpose in Journalism, at the University of Groningen ahead of the ECREA Journalism Studies Section Conference 2026. The event brought together an international community of researchers, practitioners, and …
The Public Tech Media Lab hosts a boot camp training for open-source investigation techniques. by Aaron R. Conklin June 8, 2026 Back in 2017, Mexico City was devastated by a 7.1-magnitude earthquake that leveled parts of the city and beyond, killing nearly 400 people and injuring more than 6,000. For Gisella Peréz de Acha, who was living there …
Call for Papers The Routledge Handbook of Open Source Investigations Open source investigations (OSINV) leverage the widespread availability of natively digital or digitized data to build narratives about “what actually happened” that rely on source and methodological transparency and replicability to convince readers. Given their close ties to the digital subcultures that emerged on the …
RECLAIMING DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURES FOR JOURNALISM Ownership, Dependency, and Public Interest Alternatives Pre-conference to the ECREA Journalism Studies Section 2027 April 21, 2027 – University of National and World Economy Conference Topic This pre-conference asks how journalism can imagine, and more importantly, realize alternatives to the infrastructural dependencies that shape news in platform societies (van Dijck …
The Public Tech Media Lab has announced a formal partnership with the Visual Evidence Lab at the University of Colorado, a research group dedicated to reforming how video technology is understood and applied within the legal system. The Visual Evidence Lab, led by Professor Sandra Ristovska, works at the intersection of media, technology, and law. …
Tomás Dodds is leading the new Public Tech Media Lab, which aims to be a resource for journalists hoping to be deliberate about how to ethically use new technology. by Margaret Shreiner April 27, 2026 The field of journalism, and media in general, is facing a pivotal moment. The rise of artificial intelligence technologies is changing the …
Journalisten laten zich makkelijk meeslepen in nieuwe technologie, omdat ze bang zijn om achter te blijven en de techsector te vriend willen houden. Daardoor vergeten ze weleens dat ze zelf invloed hebben op de manier waarop de technologie zich ontwikkelt, stelt een internationale groep mediawetenschappers. Een van hen is Tomás Dodds, die onlangs de Universiteit Leiden …
Registrations are now open with this link! The Digital Investigations Bootcamp is the first intensive, hands-on OSINT training program in the Midwest designed specifically for journalists, OSINT practitioners, editors, and newsroom researchers. Hosted by the Public Tech Media Lab at the School of Journalism & Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Open-source intelligence (OSINT) …
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 …
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 …