Journalism is crumbling, mainly because people around the world seem reluctant to pay for facts, while they are spending ever more for emotions: from Spotify to Netflix. For journalism, this is the be...

This is a momentous year for Latin America: with far-right Jair Bolsonaro's debut as Brazil's president and Andrés Manuel López Obrador's in Mexico, the Central American and Venezuelan exodus toward...

The practice commonly known as “parachute journalism”, i.e. dispatching journalists to a country for a relatively short period of time to cover a story, is a controversial type of reporting. But j...

The key attributes of blockchain technology - decentralized, immutable and trustless - hold promise for a news media environment increasingly controlled by powerful entities. In this session the speak...

There have always been battles about what journalism is, and who should be allowed to call themselves a journalist. Some want to put up razorwire around the profession, and others are more comfortable...

Reporters working on national security or with sensitive government sources obviously need to keep hackers out of their online accounts. But in reality, all journalists, including sports, tech, fashio...

The mantra of 'move fast and break things' defined the last wave of innovation in media. Fuelled by venture capital and a Silicon Valley ethos, many digital news companies were built for a speed and s...

The ethical and social impact of technology, and the role of journalists and media in it. The session will consider what the social impacts and ethical implications are of new technologies such as ar...

Facing the challenges of a datafied society: how journalist, activists and hackers can make sense of datafication. The contemporary datafied society is hybrid in nature: information technology, polic...

Our societies feel more fragmented than ever and it’s not just tabloids who seem to be stoking the flames of discord and division. In the wake of the Christchurch terror attack, the UK's head of cou...