How reconcilable are journalism and activism, especially in grassroots media? This panel takes a look at how newsrooms determine the boundaries in their work while maintaining a high ethical standard,...

Based on his December 2022 essay entitled Journalism is a public good. Let the public make it in the Columbia Journalism Review, Darryl Holliday will moderate this panel on the (re)emerging civic med...

This presentation and panel will transform how you see the information crisis. You will be equipped with new ways of articulating both the problems and solutions, more clearly and with more impact. Fo...

Journalists have needed to rethink long-held norms as trust in news media plummets and the public become increasingly divided on issues ranging from public health to voting access and democracy itself...

At the December 2021 Democracy Summit, President Joe Biden committed critical seed money to a new initiative to save independent media from “extinction”. President Emmanuel Macron also pledged to ...

When basic freedoms -- including freedom of expression -- are under attack in democracies around the world, and when climate change is accelerating, staying with traditional newsroom practices isn't j...

Once upon a time they were the audience. Then "the people formerly known as the audience". Then came the backlash, with comment sections closed down and a revolt against social media. Then a counter-m...

Our brains use plenty of short-cuts to process the complex world around us, filter relevant information and allow us to make decisions. On the one hand, a useful optimization process, this also bears ...

At long last, it's become clear in media and technology circles that upgrading our information supply, while crucial, is not enough to solve the misinformation crisis. We also need to upgrade ourselve...

In rich countries, local media is struggling to survive. The people who produce and consume the news are increasingly elites living in big cities. Why is this happening, what does it mean for democrac...