Where social media is banned or monitored, closed networks and encrypted messengers like Telegram and WhatsApp allow activists and the journalists who cover them an avenue for communicating and disseminating information by circumventing authoritarian control.
This session is designed for:
Reporters covering at-risk, sensitive and secretive people and groups
Newsrooms interested in developing techniques for covering “impenetrable” communities
Anyone curious to understand how closed networks can foster freer-flowing information
The public web is a fact checker’s dream, but not everything stays up forever. More than just an invaluable contribution to collective memory, the practice of web crawling,...
Artificial intelligence and machine learning skeptics find sympathetic ears in many newsrooms, where journalists dismiss, criticize and even fear automated tech. Successful...
We’ll hear from key leaders in the digital journalism community — candidates for ONA’s Board of Directors — about their approach to balancing innovation, engagement,...
