Events

Oct 30

Renewing Our Courage: Journalism Ethics in Troubled Times
Tomás Dodds

October 30, 2026 (all day) Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, 330 N. Orchard St., Madison, WI Register Here

RENEWING OUR COURAGE will gather news media professionals, media innovators, academics, students and the public to take on the urgent ethical issues facing the practice of journalism in increasingly authoritarian times. With a mix of panel discussions, presentations and hands-on training led by experts from around the world, we will explore topics such as covering protest, unrest, …
Apr 21

Pre-Conference: Reclaiming and Repurposing Digital Infrastructures for Journalism
Tomás Dodds, Natali Helberger, Seth Lewis, Elohim Monard, Colin Porlezza, Valeria Resendez, Theresa Seipp

April 21, 2027 (all day) Sofia, Bulgaria Link to CfP

This pre-conference asks how journalism can imagine, and more importantly, realise alternatives to the infrastructural dependencies that shape news in platform societies (van Dijck et al., 2018). News organizations increasingly depend on external digital platforms, cloud services, recommender systems, audience analytics, artificial intelligence tools, content moderation systems, and other infrastructures that condition how journalism is produced, distributed, measured, and governed (Dodds et al., 2023).