In this highly interactive session, attendees will break into groups to design a mock disinformation campaign aimed at manipulating the media into spreading a false story. Afterward, the groups will s...
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Mandy Jenkins
general manager The Compass Experiment
Mandy Jenkins is General Manager of The Compass Experiment, a partnership between Google and McClatchy to explore sustainable business models for local news. Over the next three years, she will be leading the launch of three digital-only news operations in U.S. communities that have limited sources of local, independent journalism. The first site, Mahoning Matters, launched in October 2019 in Youngstown, Ohio.
Prior to her work with Compass, Mandy was a 2019 John S. Knight journalism fellow at Stanford University, where she competed an ethnographic study on the disconnection between disinformation consumers and mainstream news. She has served in leadership roles at Storyful and Digital First Media’s Project Thunderdome and has driven innovative digital journalism projects within The Huffington Post, TBD.com, The Cincinnati Enquirer and The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Mandy has taught digital and social media skills workshops for journalists across the world, including as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Mandy is on the Board of Directors for the Online News Association and News Leaders Association. She resides in New York City.
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The role of social newsgathering in newsrooms has become more ethically complex than ever in recent months, as those who seek to disrupt disinformation and propaganda campaigns must adapt to an enemy ...
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13 april 2018
Automating verification? The role of technology in the verification process: status, activities and challenges
The session will investigate and outline how and to what extent technology (such as tools, Artificial Intelligence, machine learning) can support journalists, fact-checkers and those investigating hum...
Trust in media and the fight against misinformation is a global problem that requires a global solution; it can never be solved within one region alone, or just by the richest newsrooms. Across the...
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Messaging apps and Chatapps like Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger, Snapchat, Viber, and WeChat are soaring in popularity. This shift means that increasingly, valuable eyewitness media is being shared on...