Session Formats/Types (max speakers #)
- Best practices provide takeaways for tips and tricks for improving work (3)
- Case studies / Under-the-Hood are deep dives illuminating projects’ successes and challenges (2)
- Learn a skill workshops provide a hard skill to take back to newsrooms (3)
- Masterclass is a solo talk or fireside chat with a topical expert (2)
- Panel discussions lead a nuanced dive into a complex topic or challenge (5)
- Research open up new information about the latest trends in news (2)
- Solutions gathering is networked collaboration on challenges and defining solutions (2)
- Template building is collaborative work on templates to start a project and improve workflows (2)
Areas of Focus to inspire innovation in journalism
- Emerging technology to help journalists tell stories in new formats and news executives make informed, ethical decisions for investing resources
- Audience development & metrics to support understanding of what information is compelling, when and how individuals engage and what opportunities exist for growth
- Leadership development to ensure a diverse group of change-making journalists are trained and equipped to navigate uncertainty
- Revenue & business models to create and adapt business models for journalism that are essential for a thriving news ecosystem
- Innovative news storytelling to provide journalists with a variety of options to creatively tell stories and engage communities using new tools or platforms
Target Populations open to and/or invested in innovation
- Editors, newsroom managers, senior leaders, and other journalists in the news media and technology industry
- Journalists in underrepresented communities in the news media who are interested in furthering their careers; examples:
- women are underrepresented in newsroom leadership and in sourcing
- people of color are underrepresented in staff, sourcing and coverage
- small newsrooms may cover communities underrepresented in policy conversations, and are themselves underrepresented at conferences
- Early career journalism changemakers who are enthusiastic about fostering new ways of storytelling or finding new ways to interact with their audience
- Journalism school instructors, faculty, administrators and student leaders
- Technologists in the news media and technology industry
