After the end of the Obama presidency, the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay remains standing, despite a long sequence of institutional promises and demands from American civil society. Trump has dec...

The debate on online fake news, and more in general on the authority or truthfulness (or “post truthfulness”) of content distributed online, is becoming an increasingly hot topic. But what are th...

Being bullied creates deep scars that may remain for life. Self-confidence can become an elusive or impossible goal. Victims are aware of that, being forced to deal with their inner torments daily, ...

Who are today's journalist-entrepreneurs? The session will consider the results of the survey made by ONA Italy, launched with a questionnaire last November, which aims at identifying, mapping and an...

This session will explore the opportunities and drawbacks of scaling newsroom culture in the digital age. It will address how global news organisations can leverage their widespread teams and the chal...

According to Edelman's Trust Barometer, the world of business is "the last retaining wall" to stop the emergence of a post-truth and fake-news world. This is due to the fact that, according to the stu...

Over a hundred journalists jailed in Turkey by Erdogan. Opposition newspapers closed illegally in Orban’s Hungary. Journalists in the United States regularly demonized by Trump as “fake news” pe...

A new era of information warfare: the DNC, the Podesta mails, Sony Pictures, etc. State-sponsored hacking and leaking and what it means for journalism. "Strategic leaking“ by states and intelligenc...

This panel has a very specific goal: to bring together researchers who have studied news coverage of a very sensitive issue such as corruption and journalists who will have to comment on the results...

This panel will look at the state of the art in how journalists build data infrastructures and collaborate around data projects. It will move beyond the stories that journalists tell with data to expl...