IPI WoCo 2022: Full Schedule

At the 2022 IPI World Congress, we’re more than a conference. We’re a movement for journalism. For two-and-a-half days, we’ll put journalism at the centre of the world, back where IPI first started in 1950 at Columbia University in New York.

The 2022 World Congress will run from September 8 to 10 as a truly global in-person and hybrid event.

4:00pm EDT

Welcome

Welcome with John Daniszewski and Khadija Patel.

Join us online at https://bit.ly/IPIWoCo_NYC_Zoom_A

Speakers

John Daniszewski

Vice President for Standards, Associated Press

John Daniszewski became AP’s vice president for standards and editor at large in July 2016 after more than 10 years as AP’s international editor. Before that, he had spent 20 years as a foreign correspondent for the AP and The Los Angeles Times, covering many of the major international... Read More →

Khadija Patel

Journalist-in-Residence, International Fund for Public Interest Media

Khadija Patel pushes words on street corners. She is passionate about the protection and enhancement of global media as a public good and is the head of programmes at the International Fund for Public Interest Media She is the former editor-in-chief of the Mail & Guardian in South... Read More →

Thursday September 8, 2022 4:00pm - 4:15pm EDT
Faculty House, Seminar Ballroom

Faculty House + CJS Lecture Hall

4:15pm EDT

Opening remarks

Join us online at https://bit.ly/IPIWoCo_NYC_Zoom_A

Speakers

Simon Li

Editing and Management Consultant, USA

Simon Li is a former vice chair of IPI's Executive Board and an IPI Fellow. He has been a member of IPI since 1995. He retired from newspaper journalism in 2007 after 23 years at the Los Angeles Times, more than 16 of them on the international news desk, which he led from 1995 to... Read More →

Thursday September 8, 2022 4:15pm - 4:30pm EDT
Faculty House, Seminar Ballroom

Faculty House + CJS Lecture Hall

4:30pm EDT

A conversation with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dmitry Muratov

Join us online at https://bit.ly/IPIWoCo_NYC_Zoom_A

Speakers

Masha Gessen

Author, Staff writer, The New Yorker, USA

Masha Gessen is the author of eleven books, including the National Book Award-winning The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia and The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin. A staff writer at The New Yorker and the recipient of numerous awards... Read More →

Dmitry Muratov

Editor-in-Chief, Novaya Gazeta, Russia

Dmitry Muratov is a Russian journalist who, as editor in chief of the newspaper Novaya Gazeta, was a vocal advocate for an independent press and known for investigating abuses of power. In 2021, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace, cited for his "efforts to safeguard freedom... Read More →

Thursday September 8, 2022 4:30pm - 5:10pm EDT
Faculty House, Seminar Ballroom

Faculty House + CJS Lecture Hall

5:10pm EDT

Town hall meeting: Journalism under attack

In partnership with the Simon and June Li Center for Global Journalism.

When powerful disinformation campaigns launch attacks against fact-based journalism, how can news organisations take action? And how can journalists protect their sources?

Join us online at https://bit.ly/IPIWoCo_NYC_Zoom_A

Moderators

Azmat Khan

Director, Simon and June Li Center for Global Journalism

Azmat Khan is a Pulitzer-prize winning investigative reporter, Patti Cadby Birch Assistant Professor of Journalism and Director, Simon and June Li Center for Global Journalism.She is a writer for New York Times Magazine, a Carnegie Fellow, and the Patti Cadby Birch Assistant Professor... Read More →

Speakers

Zaffar Abbas

Editor, Dawn newspaper, Pakistan

Zaffar Abbas is the Editor of Dawn, Pakistan’s oldest and most prestigious English language newspaper. This is his 37th year in journalism. During this period he has worked for several news organisations, including 16 years for the BBC World as one of its Pakistan correspondents... Read More →

Musikilu Mojeed

Editor-in-Chief, Premium Times

Musikilu Mojeed, a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), is an award-winning journalist and Editor-in-Chief/Chief Operating Officer at Premium Times newspaper, which he co-founded.He is also the President of the Nigerian chapter of the International... Read More →

Olga Rudenko

Chief Editor, Kyiv Independent, Ukraine

Olga Rudenko is the chief editor of the Kyiv Independent, an award-winning media start-up launched in November 2021 by the former editorial team of the Kyiv Post. Olga is the former deputy chief editor of the Kyiv Post. She has written for global publications, and was a fellow at... Read More →

Sally Buzbee

Executive Editor, The Washington Post, USA

Michael Slackman

Assistant Managing Editor for International, The New York Times, USA

Thursday September 8, 2022 5:10pm - 6:30pm EDT
Faculty House, Seminar Ballroom

Faculty House + CJS Lecture Hall

6:30pm EDT

Welcome reception

Hosted by long-time IPI supporters Simon and June Li.

This event is not available online

Thursday September 8, 2022 6:30pm - 7:30pm EDT
Faculty House, Presidential Ballroom

Social Event

9:00am EDT

Journalism and democracy: Dean Baquet in conversation with Charlie Sennott

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Speakers

Charles Sennott

Founder and editor-in-chief, GroundTruth / Report for the World

A member of IPI's North American Committee, Charles Sennott is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The GroundTruth Project, which is home to Report for the World and Report for America. He is an award-winning correspondent, best-selling author and editor with nearly 40 years of experience... Read More →

Dean Baquet

Editor, Local Investigative Fellowship, The New York Times, USA

Dean Baquet leads a local investigative Times fellowship that will launch in the coming months.He previously served as executive editor for The New York Times from May 2014 until June 2022. During Baquet's tenure as executive editor, The Times had significant audience and subscriber... Read More →

Friday September 9, 2022 9:00am - 9:40am EDT
Columbia Journalism School, Joseph D. Jamail Lecture Hall

Faculty House + CJS Lecture Hall

9:40am EDT

Keynote and welcome: Jelani Cobb

Join us online at https://bit.ly/IPIWoCo_NYC_Zoom_A

Speakers

Jelani Cobb

Dean, Columbia Journalism School, USA

Jelani Cobb joined the Journalism School faculty in 2016. He has contributed to The New Yorker since 2012, and became a staff writer in 2015. He is the recipient of the 2015 Sidney Hillman Award for Opinion and Analysis writing and writes frequently about race, politics, history... Read More →

Friday September 9, 2022 9:40am - 10:00am EDT
Columbia Journalism School, Joseph D. Jamail Lecture Hall

Faculty House + CJS Lecture Hall

10:00am EDT

Plenary: Life on the press freedom frontline

Amid growing intolerance for a free press, how do we keep journalism alive?

Join us online at https://bit.ly/IPIWoCo_NYC_Zoom_A

Moderators

Julie Pace

Senior Vice President & Executive Editor, The Associated Press, USA

Julie Pace is senior vice president and executive editor of The Associated Press. She directs global news operations and news content in all formats from journalists based in 250 locations in 100 countries.Pace was previously AP’s Washington bureau chief, where she led multiformat... Read More →

Speakers

Siddharth Varadarajan

Founding Editor, The Wire, India

Siddharth Varadarajan is a Founding Editor of The Wire He was earlier the Editor of The Hindu and is a recipient of the Shorenstein Journalism Award and the Ramnath Goenka Award for Journalist of the Year. He taught Economics at New York University and Journalism at the University... Read More →

Sonny Swe

CEO and Founder, Frontier Myanmar

Sonny is co-founder and CEO of Frontier Myanmar, a Yangon-based independent media organisation that reports on current affairs, business and culture in English and Burmese. He entered the industry in 1996 as a printer and four years later co-founded The Myanmar Times – the country's... Read More →

Roman Anin

Editor-in-Chief, IStories, Russia

Roman Anin is an investigative reporter who has shed light on Russia’s rampant corruption and demonstrated how it reaches far beyond the country’s borders. He is currently the editor of the newspaper IStories (international website).Anin is known for investigating corruption with ICIJ in Panama papers. He won the Pulitzer price 2017 as part of the investigative group... Read More →

Ayesha Tanzeem

Director, South and Central Asia Division, Voice of America, Pakistan

Ayesha Tanzeem, a multiple international award-winning journalist, is the Director of the South and Central Asia Division at the Voice of America (VOA). As the VOA’s Afghanistan and Pakistan bureau chief from 2015 to 2021, she traveled the length and breadth of both the countries... Read More →

Jose Zamora

chief communications and impact officer, EXILE, USA

Jose Zamora currently serves as EXILE’s chief communications and impact officer. He is a 2020 JSK Stanford Fellow, who has focused his career on the promotion of collaboration networks, innovation, and freedom of the press. He previously worked as senior vice president of Univi... Read More →

Friday September 9, 2022 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
Columbia Journalism School, Joseph D. Jamail Lecture Hall

Faculty House + CJS Lecture Hall

11:00am EDT

Holding the line for journalism: Maria Ressa and Richard Gingras in conversation with Brian Stelter

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Moderators

Brian Stelter

Journalist & Author, USA

Brian Stelter was the anchor of "Reliable Sources," which examined the week's top media stories every Sunday on CNN, and the chief media correspondent for CNN Worldwide. Stelter reported for CNN Business and wrote a nightly email newsletter.Prior to joining CNN in November 2013, Stelter... Read More →

Speakers

Richard Gingras

Vice President, News, Google, USA

Richard Gingras is Vice President, News at Google. In that role Gingras guides Google’sstrategies in how it surfaces news on Google search, Google News, and its smart devices. Healso oversees Google’s effort to enable a healthy, open ecosystem for quality journalism, whichincludes... Read More →

Maria Ressa

CEO, Rappler

for press freedom in the Philippines. As Rappler's CEO, Maria has endured constantpolitical harassment and arrests by the Duterte government, forced to post bail tentimes to stay free. Rappler's battle for truth and democracy is the subject of the 2020Sundance Film Festival documentary... Read More →

Friday September 9, 2022 11:00am - 11:45am EDT
Columbia Journalism School, Joseph D. Jamail Lecture Hall

Faculty House + CJS Lecture Hall

11:30am EDT

Funders’ roundtable: Investing in the future of independent journalism

How can we expand the spectrum of capital available to support high-quality media as a public good?

As news outlets rethink business models and threats to press freedom multiply, what can media funders learn from the world of impact investment? Is it possible to balance financial returns with the social good of safeguarding a robust and independent media ecosystem? Or is the entire premise a mirage, destined to disappoint as it creates unrealistic expectations of commercial viability in places hostile to media pluralism?

This roundtable is co-organised by the International Press Institute, the Global Forum for Media Development, and Media Impact Funders.

The event will bring together philanthropic foundations and other media funders with impact investors, media development experts, regional accelerators, media builders and journalists.

In-person participation is by invitation only.

Anyone can watch a live stream of the event from 11:30 to 13:00 EDT at https://bit.ly/IPIWoCo_NYC_Zoom_C

AGENDA

Welcome remarks (11:30 - 11:35)
Timothy Large, Director of Independent Media Programmes, International Press Institute
Vincent Stehle, Executive Director, Media Impact Funders
Mira Milosevic, Executive Director, Global Forum for Media Development

Introduction and overview (11:35 - 11:45)
Anya Schiffrin, Director, Technology, Media, and Communications at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs

Fishbowl discussion (11:45 - 13:00)
Moderator: Anya Schiffrin

Part 1 (11:45 - 12:10): Why invest in independent media? How can traditional business models be applied and adapted to the media environment? How do we define success?
Duc Luu, Director of Sustainability Initiatives/Journalism, Knight Foundation
Tracie Powell, Founder, The Pivot Fund
Gerald Pambo-Awich, Investment Officer, Mission Investments, Ford Foundation
Part 2 (12:10 - 12:35): How do we ensure that innovative investment and funding solutions are compatible with editorial independence and media freedom?
Harlan Mandel, CEO, Media Development Investment Fund
Elizabeth Hansen Shapiro, CEO, National Trust for Local News
Saša Vučinić, Co-founder, North Base Media VC
Sharon Moshavi, President, International Center for Journalists
Part 3 (12:35 - 13:00): How can independent media gain the confidence of investors and secure capital?
Zoe Titus, Director, Namibia Media Trust
Joanna Krawczyk, President, Gazeta Wyborcza Foundation
Carlos Barrionuevo, Director, Public Media Company
Jim Friedlich, Executive Director and CEO, Lenfest Institute for Journalism
Branko Brkic, Editor-in-Chief, Daily Maverick

The rest of the roundtable will not be available online!

Networking lunch (13:00 - 14:00)

Breakout groups (14:00 - 14:45)

Conclusions (14:45-15:00)

Speakers

Anya Schiffrin

Director of Technology, Media, and Communications, Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, USA

Anya Schiffrin is the director of the Technology, Media, and Communications at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a lecturer who teaches on global media, innovation and human rights. She writes on journalism and development, investigative reporting in the global south and has published extensively over the last decade on t... Read More →

Friday September 9, 2022 11:30am - 3:00pm EDT
Columbia Journalism School, World Room

CJS World Room

11:45am EDT

Around the corner, around the world: Local journalism on a global scale

Presented in partnership with The GroundTruth Project, home of Report for America and Report for the World.

How local media is a foundation for democracy.

Join us online at https://bit.ly/IPIWoCo_NYC_Zoom_B

Moderators

Preethi Nallu

Executive Director, Report for the World

Preethi Nallu is executive director of Report for the World. She is a writer, researcher, film-maker and advocacy specialist from India. She was founding editor at Refugees Deeply. Born in Iran, raised in India, Preethi's career spans 14 countries across the global north and south... Read More →

Speakers

Pooja Pande

Co-CEO, Chambal Media, India

Pooja Pande is a writer, editor, and TED speaker whose passion for intersectional feminism led her to Chambal Media. She is currently the co-CEO and is part of the core leadership team at Chambal Media, which houses the award-winning rural news platform Khabar Lahariya and Chambal... Read More →

Nwabisa Makunga

Editor, The Sowetan, South Africa

Nwabisa Makunga is the Editor of the Sowetan, a national daily publication in Johannesburg, South Africa.She has been a journalist for 18years, with a keen interest in politics and the socio-economic development of marginalised communities.Makunga has vast experience in Newsroom leadership... Read More →

Meera K

Co-Founder, Citizen Matters, India

Meera K co-founded Citizen Matters, an award-winning civic media platform focusing on critical urban issues, ideas, and solutions for cities. Citizen Matters empowers citizens with the knowledge, understanding, and tools to make cities sustainable, equitable, and liveable.Meera also... Read More →

Evi Mariani

Executive Director & Co-Founder, Project Multatuli, Indonesia

Evi Mariani is a co-founder and the executive director of Project Multatuli, a public service journalism initiative and the first member-focused media outlet in Indonesia. Evi is a former managing editor at The Jakarta Post, a place where she worked for about 18 years as a journalist... Read More →

Kavita Devi

CEO at Chambal Media, Co-Founder of Khabar Lahariya, India

Kavita Devi is the CEO at Chambal Media & Co-Founder of Khabar Lahariya, IWMF Courage in Journalism 2021 awardee. She is Bundelkhand’s first Dalit woman anchor to host her own news and views weekly, The Kavita Show. Kavita brings with her several years of field reporting, having... Read More →

Mukhtar Ibrahim

Publisher & CEO, Sahan Journal, USA

Mukhtar is the founding publisher and CEO of Sahan Journal, a nonprofit online news organization dedicated to covering Minnesota immigrants and communities of color.He previously worked as a staff writer for the Star Tribune and Minnesota Public Radio News. He has also written for... Read More →

Garry Pierre-Pierre

Founder & Publisher, The Haitian Times, USA & Haiti

Garry Pierre-Pierre, a Pulitzer Prize-winning, multi-media and entrepreneurial journalist, is the founder and publisher of The Haitian Times. He is the co-founder and former executive director of the Center for Community and Ethnic Media at the Craig Newman Graduate School of Journalism... Read More →

Friday September 9, 2022 11:45am - 1:00pm EDT
Columbia Journalism School, Classroom

CJS Classroom

11:45am EDT

Newsgathering: Beyond shoe-leather: More options, more challenges

From open-source intelligence to deep data dives, new methods of newsgathering offer countless possibilities - and pitfalls.

Join us online at https://bit.ly/IPIWoCo_NYC_Zoom_A

Moderators

Craig Timberg

Senior Editor for Collaborative Investigations, The Washington Post

Craig Timberg is The Washington Post's senior editor for collaborative investigations, running projects and partnerships with other news organizations, including both nonprofit newsrooms and traditional outlets such as The Guardian, Le Monde and Der Spiegel. Since joining The Post... Read More →

Speakers

Milagros Salazar

Director, Convoca

Milagros Salazar is the founder and director of Convoca, a nonprofit investigative and data journalism center founded in Lima, Peru, in 2016. She specializes in database analysis and is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). She has investigated... Read More →

Paul Myers

Internet Research Specialist, BBC, UK

Paul has experience in the field of internet research and computing, dating back to 1978.He joined the BBC in 1995 as an information researcher. As the internet grew in significance, Paul was able to blend his technical knowledge with the realities of his work in journalism. As a... Read More →

Rinat Tuhvatshin

Co-Founder, Kloop Media, Kyrgyzstan

I am co-founder of Kloop, investigative and news media. Despite being based in the small Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan, Kloop is the recipient of IRE's Tom Renner, Sigma and other journalism awards. My personal focus is the development of tools that empower journalists. I believe... Read More →

Anna Babinets

Ukraine Editor, OCCRP, Ukraine

Anna Babinets joined OCCRP in 2015 as a regional editor for Ukraine. She is co-founder and editor-in-chief of the independent investigative agency Slidstvo.Info, an OCCRP member center. From the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war Anna and Slidstvo.Info have covered war crimes, reporting from the field in Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities, and researching and identifying Russian militaries in Ukraine. She is a 2019 recipient of the International... Read More →

Friday September 9, 2022 11:45am - 1:00pm EDT
Columbia Journalism School, Joseph D. Jamail Lecture Hall

Faculty House + CJS Lecture Hall

2:00pm EDT

Unmasking the anonymous: Tips and techniques for finding people online

Using genuine case studies, the BBC online investigation specialist Paul Myers will share tips and techniques for finding and identifying people online.

Speakers

Paul Myers

Internet Research Specialist, BBC, UK

Friday September 9, 2022 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
Columbia Journalism School, Classroom

CJS Classroom

2:00pm EDT

Best of frenemies: Media and the platforms

Can’t live with each other. Can’t live without them. How should journalism think about this relationship. Status: It’s complicated.

Join us online at https://bit.ly/IPIWoCo_NYC_Zoom_A

Moderators

Emily Bell

Director, Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia University, USA

Emily Bell is the Leonard Tow Professor of Journalism and Director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism . The Tow Center has built an international reputation for its research on the relationship between technology and journalism, the influence of online platforms, algorithmic... Read More →

Speakers

Anya Schiffrin

Director of Technology, Media, and Communications, Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, USA

Christoph Plate

Director Media Programme South East Europe, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

Christoph Plate is Director of the Media Programme Sub-Sahara Africa of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, based in Johannesburg, South Africa. In the 1990s he worked as contributing Africa Correspondent for the German Newsmagazine “Der Spiegel”, based in Nairobi, Kenya, reporting... Read More →

Paula Miraglia

CEO and Co-founder, Nexo Jornal & Gama Revista, Brazil

Paula Miraglia is a co-founder, Chief Executive Officer and publisher of Nexo Jornal, a digital-only news outlet in Brazil. Ms Miraglia holds a doctorate degree in Social Anthropology from the University of São Paulo, where she also graduated in Social Sciences. She is also a Columbia... Read More →

Julia Angwin

Investigative Journalist & Contributing Writer, The New York Times, USA

Julia Angwin is an award-winning investigative journalist and contributing Opinion writer at The New York Times. She founded The Markup, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the impacts of technology on society, and is Entrepreneur in Residence at Columbia Journalism School’s Brown Institute.Julia was a previously a senior reporter at the independent news organization ProPublica, where she led an investigative team that was a Finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting in 2017 and won a Gerald Loeb Award i... Read More →

Friday September 9, 2022 2:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
Columbia Journalism School, Joseph D. Jamail Lecture Hall

Faculty House + CJS Lecture Hall

3:00pm EDT

Safety comes first: Practical safety strategies for editors and news managers on a tight budget

In association with the ACOS Alliance and the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma.

Delivered by leading experts on safety and trauma, this session focuses on essential basic practices that can be implemented to boost safety preparedness at minimal costs. Participants will learn about how to create and improve safety protocols that affect both newsrooms and journalists in the field, and will pay special attention to managing trauma.

The session will cover key elements for creating a robust set of safety protocols that will help editors to avoid and carefully manage security threats. We will refer to useful open source resources available, such as Leading Resilience.

This session is aimed at editors and news managers who commission stories, films and/or photography and who have direct responsibility for the safety of those they are working with. It is organized by the ACOS (A Culture Of Safety) Alliance and the Dart Center.

Join us online at https://bit.ly/IPIWoCo_NYC_Zoom_B

Speakers

Bruce Shapiro

Executive Director, Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma

Bruce Shapiro is Executive Director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, a project of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism encouraging innovative reporting on violence, conflict and tragedy worldwide. An award-winning reporter on human rights, criminal justice... Read More →

Sharbil Nammour

Global Head of Security, VICE Media, USA

Sharbil leads the security and risk team at VICE Media in supporting journalists and teams worldwide, across all conditions. He specializes in transforming free-spirited mayhem into organized chaos.

Ramy Ghaly

Production Security Manager, VICE Media, USA

Ramy supports VICE Media journalists to navigate and work around risks on sensitive beats and in hostile environments. Previously, he was a human rights defender and a combat medic. Ramy studied a broad spectrum of security disciplines and is fluent in Arabic.

Friday September 9, 2022 3:00pm - 4:30pm EDT
Columbia Journalism School, Classroom

CJS Classroom

3:30pm EDT

When it's war

Reporting war lies deep in journalism’s roots. Each conflict has new challenges and lessons. What does the war in Ukraine teach us?

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Moderators

David Jordan

Director, BBC Editorial Policy & Standards, BBC

David Jordan became the BBC’s Director of Editorial Policy & Standards in October 2007. Prior to that, he had been Controller of Editorial Policy since December 2005 and the BBC’s Chief Adviser, Politics for the two previous years. He began his career in television journalism... Read More →

Speakers

Natalia Antelava

Editor-in-Chief, Coda Story, Georgia

Natalia Antelava is a co-founder and editor-in-chief of Coda Story, an award-winning newsroom that covers the roots of global crises. Originally from Tbilisi, Georgia Natalia started her journalism career in West Africa and had been BBC's resident correspondent in the Caucasus, Central... Read More →

Sevgil Musayeva

Editor in Chief, Ukrayinska Pravda

Sevgil Musaieva is a Ukrainian journalist from Crimea, editor-in-chief of Ukrainian newspaper Ukrainska Pravda, recipient of a 2022 International Press Freedom Award, and featured in TIME’s 100 most influential people of 2022. Before joining Ukrainska Pravda, Musaieva served as... Read More →

Suzanne Malveaux

National correspondent, CNN, USA

Award-winning journalist Suzanne Malveaux serves as CNN’s national correspondent, covering national, international news and cultural events. Malveaux covered Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama and has interviewed 5 living presidents, and several first ladies... Read More →

Friday September 9, 2022 3:30pm - 4:30pm EDT
Columbia Journalism School, Joseph D. Jamail Lecture Hall

Faculty House + CJS Lecture Hall

4:30pm EDT

The Pulitzer Prizes: Honoring journalism with impact

This panel is presented in partnership with The Pulitzer Prizes.

The Pulitzer Prizes have honored excellence in journalism and the arts since 1917. In this session, we will explore what distinguishes Pulitzer-level work with Pulitzer prize-winning journalists themselves. Audience members will have the chance to ask questions and learn more about the winners' stories that not only contributed to bringing about justice but also had reverberations far beyond, fueling the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter social movements.

Join us online at https://bit.ly/IPIWoCo_NYC_Zoom_C

Moderators

Marjorie Miller

Administrator, The Pulitzer Prizes, USA

Speakers

Kyndell Harkness

Assistant Managing Editor of Diversity/Community, The Star Tribune, USA

Kyndell Harkness is the Star Tribune’s Assistant Managing Editor of Diversity/Community. Kyndell has worked at the Star Tribune for 20 years as a photographer and most recently, as a photo editor, coordinating coverage of breaking news such as the death of Prince and protests of... Read More →

David Remnick

Editor, The New Yorker, USA

David Remnick has been editor of The New Yorker since 1998 and a staff writer since 1992. He has written many pieces for the magazine, including reporting from Russia, the Middle East, and Europe, and Profiles of Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Katharine Graham, Mike Tyson, Ralph Ellison... Read More →

Jodi Kantor

Investigative Reporter, The New York Times, USA

Jodi Kantor is a prize-winning investigative reporter for The New York Times and best-selling author whose work has revealed hidden truths about power, gender, technology, politics and culture.In October 2017, she and Megan Twohey broke the story of decades of sexual abuse allegations... Read More →

Friday September 9, 2022 4:30pm - 5:30pm EDT
Columbia Journalism School, World Room

CJS World Room

4:30pm EDT

Local news on the frontline of democracy

Presented in partnership with The GroundTruth Project, home of Report for America and Report for the World.

Join us online at https://bit.ly/IPIWoCo_NYC_Zoom_A

Moderators

Scott Kraft

Editor at Large, Los Angeles Times, USA

Scott Kraft is editor at large for enterprise journalism and special projects at the Los Angeles Times. During nearly four decades at The Times, Kraft has been managing editor, deputy managing editor/news and national editor, as well as a foreign and national correspondent. As an... Read More →

Speakers

Sarah Alvarez

Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Outlier Media, USA

Sewell Chan

Editor-in Chief, The Texas Tribune, USA

Sewell Chan joined The Texas Tribune as editor in chief in October 2021. Previously he was a deputy managing editor and then the editorial page editor at the Los Angeles Times, where he oversaw coverage that was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 2021. Chan worked at... Read More →

S. Mitra Kalita

Co-Founder, URL Media, USA

S. Mitra Kalita is managing editor of the Los Angeles Times. She was previously executive editor for Quartz and served as the site’s founding ideas editor. At The Wall Street Journal, she oversaw coverage of the Great Recession, launched a local news section for New York City and... Read More →

Nwabisa Makunga

Editor, The Sowetan, South Africa

Friday September 9, 2022 4:30pm - 5:30pm EDT
Columbia Journalism School, Joseph D. Jamail Lecture Hall

Faculty House + CJS Lecture Hall

5:30pm EDT

Reception and awards ceremony

Columbia University President Lee Bollinger will host a reception and awards ceremony at the renowned Low Memorial Library.

Watch the awards ceremony online at https://bit.ly/IPIWoCo_NYC_Zoom_A

Speakers

Lee C. Bollinger

President, Columbia University, USA

Lee C. Bollinger became Columbia University’s 19th president in 2002 and is the longest serving Ivy League president. Under his leadership, Columbia stands again at the very top rank of great research universities, distinguished by comprehensive academic excellence, an innovative... Read More →

Friday September 9, 2022 5:30pm - 7:30pm EDT
Low Memorial Library, Columbia University

Social Event

9:30am EDT

What can journalists do about dis/misinformation?

Presented in partnership with PEN America.

Time to stop talking about the problem. The solutions are out there. Let’s find them.

Join us online at https://bit.ly/IPIWoCo_NYC_Zoom_A

Moderators

Vivian Schiller

Executive Director, Aspen Digital, USA, The Aspen Institute

Vivian Schiller joined the Aspen Institute in January 2020 as Executive Director of Aspen Digital, which empowers policymakers, civic organizations, companies, and the public to be responsible stewards of technology and media in the service of an informed, just, and equitable world.A... Read More →

Speakers

Metta Dharmasaputra

Co-Founder & CEO, Katadata Indonesia

Metta Dharmasaputra is co-founder and CEO of Katadata, an online news media, data, and research company focusing on economic and business issues in Indonesia. He has 25 years of experience as a journalist specializing in economic, business, and investigative reporting. He won several... Read More →

Jeff Horwitz

Technology Reporter, The Wall Street Journal, USA

Jeff Horwitz is a technology reporter for The Wall Street Journal based in San Francisco, where he covers Facebook’s business and its impact on the world. His reporting has won repeated recognition, including a Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing award and a Gerald... Read More →

Dru Menaker

Chief Operating Officer, USA, PEN America

Dru Menaker is the Chief Operating Officer at PEN America, the human rights organization defending and celebrating the freedom to write. She provides strategic management for organizational growth, engages on advocacy campaigns, and oversees a range of programmatic and operational... Read More →

Asha Mwilu

Founder and Managing Partner, Debunk Media, Kenya

Asha Mwilu is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief at Debunk Media, an independent media company grounded in truth and public interest. Asha has spent more than a decade weaving intricate stories of people and their relationship to power through reportage, investigations and documentary... Read More →

Saturday September 10, 2022 9:30am - 10:30am EDT
Columbia Journalism School, Joseph D. Jamail Lecture Hall

Faculty House + CJS Lecture Hall

9:30am EDT

IJ4EU masterclass: Case studies in cross-border collaboration

In association with the Investigative Journalism for Europe (IJ4EU) fund.

When the going gets tough, journalists join forces. In this practical session, investigative reporters and editors offer tips on building cross-border teams and launching cutting-edge collaborations on difficult topics. They present examples of what works and what pitfalls to avoid.

Join us online at https://bit.ly/IPIWoCo_NYC_Zoom_B

Moderators

Timothy Large

Director of Independent Media Programmes, IPI

Timothy Large is head of independent media programmes at the International Press Institute (IPI) in Vienna. He is an award-winning journalist, editor and media development specialist who runs the Investigative Journalism for Europe (IJ4EU) programme. Every year, IJ4EU provides more... Read More →

Speakers

Natalia Antelava

Editor-in-Chief, Coda Story, Georgia

Ottavia Spaggiari

Investigative Journalist, USA

Ottavia Spaggiari is an investigative journalist and long-form writer.Her work has appeared in The Guardian long read, The New Yorker, Slate, The New Humanitarian and others. Her long-form on human traffickers' impunity in Italy has been shortlisted for the 2021 European Press Prize... Read More →

Roman Anin

Editor-in-Chief, IStories, Russia

Anna Babinets

Ukraine Editor, OCCRP, Ukraine

Saturday September 10, 2022 9:30am - 10:40am EDT
Columbia Journalism School, Classroom

CJS Classroom

9:30am EDT

Ending impunity for the killing of journalists: Alternative paths to justice?

For the past decade, as unsolved killings of journalists remain staggeringly high, some trends have become clear: state protection mechanisms are largely ineffective, prosecutions depend on a functioning rule of law and judiciary, and the media, NGOs, and even family members often do much of the investigative work.
At a time of shrinking democracies, how do we achieve justice? How do we deter killings?

Presented in partnership with The Committee to Protect Journalists

Join us online at https://bit.ly/IPIWoCo_NYC_Zoom_C

Moderators

Jodie Ginsberg

President, Committee to Protect Journalists, USA

Jodie Ginsberg is the president of the Committee to Protect Journalists. A journalist by profession, Ginsberg joined CPJ in 2022 from Internews Europe, where she was the chief executive officer. Ginsberg began her career as a graduate trainee with Reuters news agency, working as a... Read More →

Speakers

Matthew Caruana Galizia

Director, Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation, Malta

(**Joining online!)Matthew Caruana Galizia is the director the Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation, which is dedicated to achieving justice for his mother, the investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia who was assassinated in a car bomb attack in Malta in 2017. He is also software engineer and journalist who worked at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalist... Read More →

Paula Saucedo

Protection and Defense Officer, Article 19, Mexico

Paula Saucedo is a human rights defender, with over 9 years of experience, she has worked with several NGOs, United Nations, and International Cooperation Agencies. Currently, since 2020, she has been the protection and defense program officer at ARTICLE 19 Mexico, and Central America.At... Read More →

Abderrahim Foukara

Washington DC Bureau Chief, Aljazeera Media Network

Abderrahim Foukara is Al Jazeera Media Network’s Washington DC Bureau Chief. As a veteran journalist with unique insight into US as well as Middle East politics, has been an essential voice in the US media’s coverage of the Arab Spring, bringing more clarity and context to it... Read More →

Saturday September 10, 2022 9:30am - 10:45am EDT
Columbia Journalism School, World Room

CJS World Room

11:15am EDT

Diversity and inclusion: What they mean to your report and your newsroom

Join us online at https://bit.ly/IPIWoCo_NYC_Zoom_C

Moderators

Karen Toulon

Co-Founder, Words Paint Media LLC, USA

Karen Amanda Toulon is an award-winning multi-platform journalist and host who has covered global business, economic and cultural news. She is the co-founder of Words Paint Media LLC.She has worked with Bloomberg, Reuters, CNBC and CBS Radio. Karen received a Gwen Ifill Award from... Read More →

Speakers

Dhanya Rajendran

Editor-in-Chief, The News Minute

Michael Giarrusso

Deputy for Newsgathering, The Associated Press, USA

Michael Giarrusso is the Deputy for Newsgathering for the Associated Press. He oversees coverage of sports, business, entertainment, religion and health/science at The AP, the world’s oldest and largest independent news service. From 2013-2021, he was global sports editor. Giarrusso... Read More →

Kenya Young

Senior Vice President, WNYC Studios, USA

Saturday September 10, 2022 11:15am - 12:45pm EDT
Columbia Journalism School, World Room

CJS World Room

11:15am EDT

Reimagining journalism: New models for new audiences

What comes first? The voice? Or the community? We take a look under the hood of five existing journalism initiatives to find out.

Join us online at https://bit.ly/IPIWoCo_NYC_Zoom_A

Moderators

David Cohn

Co-founder and senior director, Subtext, USA

David Cohn founded Spot.us, was the Chief Content Officer of Circa when it first started, was an Executive Producer at AJ+ and now does R&D for Advance Digital. He runs Subtext (JoinSubtext.com) a platform that lets journalists text (SMS) with their audience.

Speakers

Barkha Dutt

Founder-Editor, Mojo, India

Barkha Dutt, one of India's best-known journalists, is the Founding-Editor of Mojo Story, a multi-media digital platform. The recipient of more than 50 national and international awards - among them the Padmashri and the Global Leader for Tomorrow from the World Economic Forum- Dutt... Read More →

Jazmín Acuña

Co-Founder. Editorial Director, El Surtidor, Paraguay

Jazmín Acuña is a journalist from Paraguay. She is the co-founder and editorial director of El Surtidor, a digital news outlet specialized in visual journalism. In her team she promotes in-depth coverage of the climate crisis, gender issues, power relations and disinformation. She... Read More →

DVL Padma Priya

Editor-in-Chief & Co-founder, Suno India, India

DVL Padma Priya is the Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Suno India, an award-winning podcast platform bringing quality audio journalism based out of India. She has hosted multiple podcasts on under-reported stories such as "Dear Pari" on adoption, "The Suno India Show" on curren... Read More →

Devi Asmarani

Editor-in-Chief, Magdalene.co

Devi Asmarani is the Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of Indonesian women-focused webmagazine Magdalene. Her 25 years of experience in journalism began at The Jakarta Post, followed by The Straits Times of Singapore, where she wrote news reports, in-depth articles and analyses on various issues including politics, conflicts, terrorism and natural disasters. She is also a writing and jou... Read More →

Chani Guyot

Founder & Director, RED/ACCIÓN, Argentina

Chani Guyot is an Argentinian journalist, editor, designer and musician. He is the founder and current director of RED/ACCIÓN. He is the former Editor in Chief of La Nación.

Saturday September 10, 2022 11:15am - 12:45pm EDT
Columbia Journalism School, Joseph D. Jamail Lecture Hall

Faculty House + CJS Lecture Hall

12:00pm EDT

Digital misogyny vs. pluralistic media: Responding to gendered disinformation and online harassment of women journalists

Co-organised in partnership with the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media.

Gender-specific and sexualized campaigns capitalizing on biased gender narratives and exploiting misogyny not only defame women journalists, discredit their personal and professional reputation, but also reinforce harmful stereotypes and hate. Such online abuse is typically aimed at denying women a public voice and silencing them individually, especially those with intersectional identities, as well as at avoiding scrutiny and undermining public trust in fact-based journalism.

In this roundtable, organized by the OSCE RFoM, we will identify steps to address gendered disinformation against journalists and its detrimental impact on media pluralism and information spaces.

Join us online at https://bit.ly/IPIWoCo_NYC_Zoom_B

Speakers

Facilitator: Julia Haas

Adviser, OSCE RFoM

Julia Haas is an international law and human rights expert focusing on the intersection of technology, human rights and international relations. At the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Julia works on policy research and development in the field of internet... Read More →

Jeff Horwitz

Technology Reporter, The Wall Street Journal, USA

Courtney C. Radsch, PhD

Fellow, UCLA Institute for Technology, Law and Policy, UCLA Institute for Technology, Law and Policy

Courtney C. Radsch, PhD, is an internationally recognized expert on technology, media and human rights whose perspective is shaped by her experience as a journalist, scholar, and press freedom advocate. Currently, she is a fellow at UCLA’s Technology, Law and Policy Institute where... Read More →

Saturday September 10, 2022 12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
Columbia Journalism School, Classroom

CJS Classroom

1:45pm EDT

Confronting media capture and defending pluralism: The experience of Central Europe

How have illiberal and populist governments sought to distort the media market and squeeze out independent journalism. How can true public-interest media survive and how are societies pushing back? What lessons can be learned from the experience of Central Europe?

Join us online at https://bit.ly/IPIWoCo_NYC_Zoom_C

Moderators

Alison Smale

Veteran journalist, Former Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications, United Nations

Alison SmaleVeteran journalist with NYT, International Herald Tribune and AP;UN Undersecretary General for global communications 2017-19;currently Fellow at Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna;Adjunct Professor of Journalism at FH, Vienna

Speakers

Márton Gergely

Editor-in-Chief, HVG, Hungary

Márton Gergely is editor in chief of Hungary's largest current affairs weekly HVG. Gergely reads History and Journalism in Budapest and Hamburg. He was a contributor of the Hungarian weekly Magyar Narancs, and after an internship became a correspondent for the Berlin daily taz, die... Read More →

Velislava Popova

Editor-in-Chief, Dnevnik daily

Velislava Popova is a journalist. She believes in journalism and she still believes in the opportunity to do reliable, responsible and trustworthy journalism in Bulgaria.Velislava Popova is Editor-in-chief of Dnevnik since November 2008. Dnevnik daily was newspaper with business focus... Read More →

Robert Břešťan

Editor-in-Chief, HlidaciPes.org

Robert Břešťan is a Czech journalist and editor-in-chief of independent non-profit media project HlidaciPes.org (in translation WatchDog). He is based in Prague. Before he co-established HlidaciPes.org in 2014, he worked for weekly magazine Ekonom (Czech business-economics magazine... Read More →

Ali Žerdin

Editor, Delo

Ali Žerdin has been editor at Saturday supplement of Slovenian daily Delo since 2010. He worked as journalist and editor-in-chief at Student Radio (1985-1989), journalist and deputy editor at weekly magazine Mladina (1989-2006), editor at Saturday supplement Objektiv of daily newspaper... Read More →

Saturday September 10, 2022 1:45pm - 2:45pm EDT
Columbia Journalism School, World Room

CJS World Room

1:45pm EDT

Collaboration in a time of crisis

War, the pandemic, climate change — desperate times call for new forms of cooperation. This panel is produced in association with IPI’s Investigative Journalism for Europe (IJ4EU) Fund.

Join us online at https://bit.ly/IPIWoCo_NYC_Zoom_A

Moderators

Ron Nixon

Vice President for News, investigative, enterprise and grants and partnerships, Associated Press

Ron Nixon is AP’s Vice President for News, investigative, enterprise and grants and partnerships. Nixon received the inaugural 2021 News Leader of the Year award from the News Leaders Association. He has overseen investigations that have won a number of awards including, the 2023... Read More →

Speakers

Michael Hudson

Senior Editor, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, USA

Michael Hudson, United States, is now in his second stint as a senior editor at ICIJ. In his first tour at ICIJ from 2012 to 2017, he led ICIJ's World Bank investigation and worked as a reporter, writer and editor on ICIJ's Pulitzer Prize-winning Panama Papers investigation. As global... Read More →

Motunrayo Alaka

Executive Director/CEO, Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism

Motunrayo Alaka is the executive director/ceo of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism – one of the first centres for investigative reporting in Africa. She has worked over the last decade and a half to expand the frontiers of social justice, democracy and human rights in Nigeria and Africa especially through the media and other civil society bodies. Working with... Read More →

Ottavia Spaggiari

Investigative Journalist, USA

Saturday September 10, 2022 1:45pm - 2:45pm EDT
Columbia Journalism School, Joseph D. Jamail Lecture Hall

Faculty House + CJS Lecture Hall

3:00pm EDT

Ctrl-Alt-Dlt: What next for journalism?

We’ve innovated, restructured, rebooted, reimagined. What do we do now?

Join us online at https://bit.ly/IPIWoCo_NYC_Zoom_A

Moderators

Aron Pilhofer

Former digital strategist at The Guardian and The New York Times, Temple University

Aron Pilhofer is the James B. Steele Chair in Journalism Innovation at Temple University. In addition to teaching, his work is focused on new business models, digital transformation and innovation in news. Before joining Temple, Pilhofer was executive editor, digital, and interim... Read More →

Speakers

Shazna Nessa

Deputy Managing Editor, Global Head of Visuals, The Wall Street Journal, USA

Shazna Nessa is Deputy Managing Editor, Global Head of Visuals at the Wall Street Journal. Prior to that she was Director of Journalism at the Knight Foundation. She started her career in technology and design and later joined the Associated Press where she oversaw visuals, editorial... Read More →

Tomáš Bella

Chief Digital Officer, Denník N

Tomáš Bella is co-founder and chief digital officer of Denník N (dennikn.sk), an independent daily paper published in Slovak, Czech and Hungarian that is focused on long-form high-quality journalism and also develops open-source software for publishers (remp2030.com). Before, he... Read More →

Gina Chua

Executive Editor, Semafor, USA

Gina Chua is Executive Editor at Semafor, a new news startup for an increasingly complex world in which consumers are overwhelmed by too many news sources and unsure what to trust. She was previously Executive Editor at Reuters, where she oversaw newsroom operations, logistics... Read More →

Saturday September 10, 2022 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
Columbia Journalism School, Joseph D. Jamail Lecture Hall

Faculty House + CJS Lecture Hall

4:15pm EDT

Closing remarks

More details to be announced.

Join us online at https://bit.ly/IPIWoCo_NYC_Zoom_A

Saturday September 10, 2022 4:15pm - 5:00pm EDT
Columbia Journalism School, Joseph D. Jamail Lecture Hall

Faculty House + CJS Lecture Hall

5:30pm EDT

IPI Members only: Closing reception at The New York Times

For IPI members, Congress speakers and partners. By invitation only.

This event is not available online.

Saturday September 10, 2022 5:30pm - 7:30pm EDT
The New York Times

Social Event