The panel will consider the case of the Umbrian regional newspaper Il Giornale dell’Umbria: the recent transfer of ownership, the collapse in copies sold due to controversial editorial choices, th...

Genetically modified crops, also called transgenic plants or GMO, have been in existence for over thirty years and have been used in agriculture for more than twenty years. They now represent more t...

The arrival of the TV cameras, the search for the culprit(s), the media trial; they all affect the economic and social life of the location where a crime takes place. Despite the crisis of mainstrea...

What are the fine lines between advocacy and journalism? Is WikiLeaks really an enrichment or is it propaganda? Is crowdfunding fostering independent journalism or is it giving the rich people an ad...

Sports journalism is changing very rapidly. Twenty years ago, radio and print media played the starring role in journalism. Then there was the era of television. Still, the future - actually, the pr...

Here’s your menu: data-driven reporting, crowdmapping, social media, online petitions, whistleblowing platforms. Choose one, some or all of them. How best to involve citizens (and indeed other jou...

Making secondary trauma a primary issue: understanding the impact of vicarious trauma in newsrooms. A growing number of journalists who regularly handle images and videos sourced from the social ...

The session will consider new approaches to storytelling in the digital age, including innovative technologies and methods being used to source stories and new formats being used to visualize the st...

What happens when readers who care about a topic find a space where they can share their ideas, photos, and videos with like-minded people? Community: the holy grail of interactivity, chock full of ...

In the times of Twitter, what does talking about literature mean? Who are the people that can make an influence? How can we say a lot with only 140 characters? Twitter has become the most simple and...