In 2024, experts finally acknowledged that there are no magic solutions to rescue the journalism industry. Traditional advertising is insufficient, and membership models require significant scaling an...

While the crisis in the business of journalism only deepens, there is a growing opportunity to embrace a new path. And it's an exciting, innovative and lucrative one. Consumers are abandoning traditio...

Journalism was transformed for better and for worse by platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and more recently TikTok. Now, the walled gardens are crumbling. Elon Musk killed Twitter and turned its succes...

Of all the ways generative AI will impact journalism, one of the most intriguing is a potential shift from the written to the spoken word. Artificial intelligence is already being harnessed by some pu...

The rise of mis and dis-information is being countered by a mix of automated technology, third-party fact-checking and human-review. But is it the blend of human and robot working? What can we do to s...

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...

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 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...

Olivia Ma, Director of the Google News Lab, a global team that collaborates with journalists and news organisations on some of the biggest challenges and opportunities facing the industry. Olivia has ...

Trust in journalism is the problem it seems everyone’s talking about right now. This panel isn’t about talk; it’s about doing. Practical solutions you can take back do your newsrooms today to he...

Why do talent leave? Why do leaders burn out? What is your favourite failure? What are some bad recommendations given with regard to leadership, building teams and/or working in digital? This panel br...

Adriano Farano founded Watchup in Silicon Valley in 2012 and sold it in a multi-million dollar deal to Plex in 2016. Mark Little founded Storyful in Dublin in 2009 and sold it in a multi-million euro ...

‘Fake news’ and the misinformation ecosystem: how can newsrooms work with social networks to help solve this problem? This panel will explore the current debates about the ‘fake news’ debate,...

Experimentation and risk-taking and getting-it-wrong are vital to innovation, whether with new products/services or with the management of people, newsrooms, new forms of storytelling and change its...

Newsrooms adapting to the digital era suddenly have a sometimes overwhelming array of new production processes and options. But they have new helpers too: tech startups focused on helping them disco...

#ijf16talk by Mark Little. Moderated by Anna Masera.

In the new reality of terrorism and propaganda on social media, the value of journalism as a means of separating news from noise has never been more vital. With militant groups using social media as...

We all need to be the first to run social and user-generated content when breaking news happens. That is the nature of a competitive news business. But what about asking for permission, or even wait...

For more information, see Craig Silverman's article entitled Video, verification, value: why News Corp's purchase of Storyful deserves your attention

"Innovate or die" is often easier said than done, especially when you're working for bureaucratic legacy news organizations or underfunded startups. A discussion of specific strategies for innovatin...

“User generated content” is now firmly established as a central part of the newsgathering process. News breaks, and rumours spread, at the speed of Twitter. Social media is increasingly becoming...