First there was SMS (short message service), then there was MMS (multi media service). As the world adopts RCS (rich communciation services), can the news industry leverage this new technology as a ne...

Transparency is an oft-cited solution to the trust crisis, but what does that mean in practice? Must journalists document all aspects of their work - or does that risk creating journalism products tha...

War crimes 101. A workshop for journalists on documenting and memorializing war crimes in real-time: best practices and pitfalls to avoid. What exactly is a war crime? Why it’s important not to jum...

The new Council for European Public Space aims to contribute intellectual leadership towards a European Public Space cons­tituted according to democratic rules. The think-and-do-tank will develop evi...

Stories of migration - whether compelled by conflict and climate change, or impelled by economic pressures - are incredibly difficult to tell. Reporting on them requires sensitivity, both to the human...

A little over ten years ago, the battle for control of Aleppo marked a turning point in the war in Syria: the reconquest of the city by the government of Bashar al Assad closed the phase of hope for t...

The most pressing issues facing the world today are big, thorny challenges with consequential impacts on billions around the globe. Winners of the Skoll Award for Social Innovation will present their ...

In this workshop, cartoonists Emanuele Del Rosso and Tjeerd Royaards show the participants what makes political cartoons tick. Why are cartoons one of the first things to be banned by authoritarian re...

Latin America is always in crisis — political instability, corruption scandals, social unrest, drug trafficking, and migration are some of the issues that monopolize coverage, but that are difficult...

A practical session to explore Google Lens, Pinpoint and Structured Data Explorer, the latest tools built by Google to help journalists find and verify stories. This workshop will take participants th...