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SUMMARY:Cancelled: What's the Future of News? Part 1 with Darryl Holliday
DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.  \nWhile reporting remains essential to journalism\, today’s information ecosystem demands a broader toolkit. How can we create learning networks where journalists and communities work together to solve local problems? \nIn this lunch workshop\, journalist and strategist Darryl Holliday will share practical approaches to building action-oriented communities of practice to enhance learning and public participation throughout the journalistic process. Drawing from his experience developing News Futures and City Bureau’s Documenters Network (now in 22 cities)\, Holliday will demonstrate how these collaborative design principles can be applied at both local and national scales. \nYou’ll learn: \n\nHow to build sustainable communities of practice\nStrategies for meaningful public participation in journalism\nReal-world civic impact examples: Local residents becoming paid documenters of public meetings\nCommunities advocating for public funding of independent media\nField leaders coming together to define shared goals\nTools for scaling community engagement\n\nDarryl Holliday is cofounder and partner at Commoner Company and lead steward of News Futures. He co-founded the Pulitzer Prize-winning civic media lab City Bureau and led the development of its signature programs. His work focuses on making civic information more accessible\, actionable\, and inspired. \nTo secure a ticket below\, registrants must provide their full first and last name(s)\, including for any guests. Incomplete or partial information will result in the cancellation of the ticket reservation.
URL:https://www.journalism.cuny.edu/events/whats-the-future-of-news-part-1-with-darryl-holliday/
LOCATION:Room 444
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SUMMARY:The Feminist Press: Countering the Broligarchy
DESCRIPTION:As calls for “masculine energy” dominate tech\, politics\, and social media\, how should feminist outlets respond? \nJoin Newmark’s Kovie Biakolo for a conversation with leading editors and reporters at feminist publications about covering the intersection of culture\, gender\, and politics. \nGuests include Editor-in-Chief of Jezebel Lauren Tousignant\, journalist Kelly Kimball\, Anna Lind-Guzik\, founder and executive director of the Anti-Nihilist Foundation\, and Danielle Kwateng\, executive editor at Teen Vogue. \nLeft to Right: Kovie Biakolo\, Kelly Kimball\, Anna Lind-Guzik\, Jezebel Lauren Tousignant\, and Danielle Kwateng.\nKelly Kimball is an award-winning international affairs journalist focused on climate geopolitics\, women’s rights\, and global conflict. As the senior editor of More to Her Story\, she guides coverage reaching over three million monthly readers worldwide\, bringing nuanced perspectives on the rights of women and girls amid urgent international challenges. Kimball is also the architect behind The Detour\, Frame Media’s flagship U.S. & global affairs newsletter\, which serves a readership spanning 48 U.S. states and 69 countries. \nAnna Lind-Guzik is the founder and executive director of the Anti-Nihilist Foundation\, and publisher of The Conversationalist\, a nonprofit feminist media outlet focused on solutions oriented journalism and global perspectives\, from the personal to the political. She is a writer\, former attorney\, and a scholar of Soviet history\, authoritarianism\, and human rights. She hosts the podcast “Unbreaking Media\,” which examines politics and culture through an intersectional feminist lens. She can be followed on BlueSky @alindguzik@bsky.social. \nBorn to two Ghanaian immigrants\, Danielle Kwateng has been a journalist\, editor\, entrepreneur\, and culture critic for over a decade. She worked at Glamour Magazine\, People StyleWatch\, StyleBlazer.com\, Essence Magazine\, and VICE in various editorial capacities. Danielle was a founding member of See In Black photography collective\, owner of The Volta e-commerce shop of African designer goods\, and is a mentor for IED’s Master Creative Direction program in Florence\, Italy. She is currently the Executive Editor of Teen Vogue. \nTo secure a ticket below\, registrants must provide their full first and last name(s)\, including for any guests. Incomplete or partial information will result in the cancellation of the ticket reservation.
URL:https://www.journalism.cuny.edu/events/the-feminist-press-countering-the-broligarchy/
LOCATION:Room 308\, 219 West 40th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
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SUMMARY:What's the Future of News?
DESCRIPTION:John Thornton\, co-founder of the Texas Tribune and co-founder of the American Journalism Project\, and Sarabeth Berman\, CEO of the American Journalism Project\, will discuss the rise of nonprofit local news\, the innovations reshaping the industry\, and what the future holds for communities across the country. Lunch will be provided. \nTo secure a ticket below\, registrants must provide their full first and last name(s)\, including for any guests. Incomplete or partial information will result in the cancellation of the ticket reservation.
URL:https://www.journalism.cuny.edu/events/whats-the-future-of-news-part-2-with-john-thornton/
LOCATION:Room 330
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SUMMARY:Black Media Futures
DESCRIPTION:Black Media Futures is a half-day virtual conference exploring the current state and future prospects of Black media\, in celebration of the 198th birthday of the Black press. The event features expert speakers and panelists sharing insights on the past\, present\, and future of Black media. \nSessions\n\n1:00 – 2:00: Black Media in the Age of Trump featuring April Ryan: This keynote will feature insights on covering this administration\, and the vital role that Black media plays in informing and empowering the Black community.\n2:05 – 3:05: Archiving Black Media: This session will explore how Black media have created and managed their archives. A panel of experts will discuss how they built and organized their archives\, how they monetize them\, and some of their favorite stories or images from the archives. This Q & A is a follow up to this previous event.\n3:10 – 4:10: Black Narrative Power – Honoring our Past to Face the Future: This workshop will challenge participants to examine the role of Black media makers in this moment and identify opportunities for Black media to coordinate for the betterment of Black America and society at large.\n4:15 – 4:45: Networking Session: This session is designed to foster connections and collaborations between Black media leaders.\n\nIf you have any questions\, contact Black Media Initiative Director Cheryl Thompson-Morton at cheryl.thompson-morton@journalism.cuny.edu. \nRegister for Black Media Futures \n\nSpeakers \nApril Ryan\, the only Black female reporter covering urban issues from the White House\, is the longest-serving Black tenured White House Correspondent in U.S. history. She is the Washington D.C. Bureau Chief and Senior White House Reporter for The Black Press USA\, and regularly appears on MSNBC. April has been featured in top magazines and served on the board of the White House Correspondents’ Association. She has earned numerous awards\, including the NAACP Image Award. A Baltimore native and Morgan State University graduate\, she mentors aspiring journalists and is the author of several books on race relations and democracy. \nBrandon Nightingale is a historian and the Black Press Archives digitization project manager at the Moorland Spingarn Research Center at Howard University. Brandon’s project: to research and document the history of the Black press. The Black Press Archive was started at Howard in 1973\, donated by the National Newspaper Publishers Association. Now\, fifty years on\, the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation has gifted the Archive $2 million to digitize the historic collection. \nDr. Allissa V. Richardson is an associate professor of journalism at USC Annenberg\, and the founder of the Charlotta Bass Journalism & Justice Lab. She researches how African Americans use mobile and social media to produce innovative forms of journalism — especially in times of crisis. Richardson is the author of Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans\, Smartphones and the New Protest #Journalism (Oxford University Press\, 2020). The award-winning book explores the lives of 15 mobile journalist-activists who have documented the Black Lives Matter movement using only mobile and social media. \nSavannah Wood\, an artist with roots in Baltimore and Los Angeles\, is the Executive Director of Afro Charities\, where she leads efforts to increase access to the AFRO American Newspapers’ archives. She has guided the organization through growth\, initiated new programming\, and attracted support from national funders. Wood graduated cum laude from the University of Southern California and is a 2024/2025 Johns Hopkins University Tabb Center Humanities Fellow. She lives and works in Baltimore\, Maryland\, sharing and preserving Black stories. \nAnshantia “Tia” Oso\, is a culture strategist\, activist and speaker who uses the power of art and culture to enact change. She currently serves as the Senior Director of Media 2070. Tia has organized for over 12 years leading successful campaigns to mobilize thousands of advocates on issues ranging from migrant rights to racial justice to public arts policy. Her work is rooted in the legacies of Black organizing and ancestral resistance and inspired by Afrofuturist visions. \nVenneikia Williams\, Media 2070 Campaign Manager\, supports the Media 2070 team in the design and successful implementation of the project. She led the development of and taught a course on media reparations at Colorado College\, was a featured speaker at the 2023 Decolonizing Wealth Conference\, and serves on the Narrative Reparations Table convened by Liberation Ventures. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from UNC Chapel Hill and a Master of Divinity degree from Covenant Theological Seminary. \nDiamond Hardiman\, Director of Reparative Narrative and Creative Strategy\, supports Media 2070’s reparative journalism work and cultural strategy campaigns. Previously\, Diamond supported Free Press’ News Voices project\, where she focused on facilitating Black and Latinx communities in transforming media in Colorado. A graduate of Saint Louis University\, Diamond is now leading the development of a community-rooted reparative journalism model. \n\nAbout the Black Media Initiative \nThe Black Media Initiative is a national capacity building initiative for Black owned and controlled media. Its aim is to support Black media by providing research\, training and connections. We are a part of the Center for Community Media which is housed at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.
URL:https://www.journalism.cuny.edu/events/black-media-futures-2025/
LOCATION:Virtual via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Center for Community Media
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SUMMARY:AI for Community Media: Fact-Checking Tools | Data Journalism
DESCRIPTION:Instructor: Mike Reilley\, Senior Lecturer at University of Illinois Chicago and founder of JournalistsToolbox.ai \nFact-Checking Tools and Best Practices (60 minutes):\nIn this part of the training\, we’ll explore ways to fight back against misinformation and disinformation during post-election coverage. We’ll use tools such as Google Fact-Check Explorer to track fact-checked images and stories. We’ll use reverse image search and other Google tools to check election claims. We’ll break down doctored video and audio with WatchFramebyFrame and Deepfake-o-meter. We’ll also look at the innovative Rolliapp.com to track disinformation spreaders on social channels. \nParticipants get a handout with links to tools and exercise materials you can take to your newsroom. Prior to the training\, set up a free Rolliapp.com “press pass” account as it takes a couple of days to get approved. \nData Journalism (60 minutes):\nData scraping web pages with Google sheets\, scraping PDFs with Tabula and PDFtoExcel.com. Building graphics with Flourish.studio. We’ll also work with AI tools Julius and Napkin.ai\, among others\, to scrape and analyze data. \nThis session is the first of three AI for Community Media sessions organized and developed by the Center for Community Media. See details about session 2 on AI tools and prompt writing and session 3 on AI tools for journalists and image creation. The trainings are funded by the New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment. If you have any questions\, contact ccm@journalism.cuny.edu. \nRegister for Session 1 \n\nInstructor \nMike Reilley is the author of two books\, “Data + Journalism: A Story-Driven Approach to Learning Data Reporting” and “Journalist’s Toolbox: A Guide to Digital Reporting and AI”. Mike teaches data and digital journalism courses at the University of Illinois Chicago. He is also a digital tools trainer who has taught Google News Initiative tools to more than 12\,500 journalists and educators in the past seven years. He also is the founder of Penny Press Digital LLC\, a digital consulting and training company that works with media outlets such as USA Today. A former reporter and copy editor at the LA Times and a founding editor of ChicagoTribune.com\, Mike served for 13 years as a full-time faculty member at Northwestern\, Arizona State University and DePaul University. He holds journalism degrees from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Northwestern University. Mike founded the research site The Journalist’s Toolbox AI.
URL:https://www.journalism.cuny.edu/events/ai-for-community-media-session-1-fact-checking-tools-data-journalism/
LOCATION:Virtual via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Center for Community Media
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SUMMARY:AI for Community Media: AI Tools | Prompt Writing
DESCRIPTION:Instructor: Mike Reilley\, Senior Lecturer at University of Illinois Chicago and founder of JournalistsToolbox.ai \nIntroduction to AI Tools (60 minutes): \nWe’ve been using AI tools for years and haven’t even realized it. But the influx of tools flooding the market raise opportunities as well as ethical and legal concerns. In this presentation/workshop\, we’ll approach AI with “cautious curiosity” and learn how to harness the tools to save you time and work. We’ll work basic editing tools; writing prompts and updates to tools such as Google Gemini\, ChatGPT\, Claude and others. We’ll also explore some pitfalls of AI tools and the legal/ethical issues surrounding them. \nPrompt Writing (60 minutes): \nShort presentation with more-extensive tips\, then examples and plug-play exercises on writing prompts for ChatGPT\, Gemini\, Claude\, etc. Some talk on ethics/legal issues\, etc. We’ll cover how to write prompts that prevent hallucinations/biases with AI tools\, and how to train ChatGPT to present information in a format that you want it to. \nThis session is the second of three AI for Community Media sessions organized and developed by the Center for Community Media. See details about session 1 on fact-checking tools and data journalism and session 3 on AI tools for journalists and image creation. The program is funded by the New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment. If you have any questions\, contact ccm@journalism.cuny.edu. \nRegister for Session 2 \n\nInstructor \nMike Reilley is the author of two books\, “Data + Journalism: A Story-Driven Approach to Learning Data Reporting” and “Journalist’s Toolbox: A Guide to Digital Reporting and AI”. Mike teaches data and digital journalism courses at the University of Illinois Chicago. He is also a digital tools trainer who has taught Google News Initiative tools to more than 12\,500 journalists and educators in the past seven years. He also is the founder of Penny Press Digital LLC\, a digital consulting and training company that works with media outlets such as USA Today. A former reporter and copy editor at the LA Times and a founding editor of ChicagoTribune.com\, Mike served for 13 years as a full-time faculty member at Northwestern\, Arizona State University and DePaul University. He holds journalism degrees from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Northwestern University. Mike founded the research site The Journalist’s Toolbox AI.
URL:https://www.journalism.cuny.edu/events/ai-for-community-media-session-2-ai-tools-prompt-writing/
LOCATION:Virtual via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Center for Community Media
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SUMMARY:AI for Community Media: AI Tools for Journalists | Image Creation
DESCRIPTION:Instructor: Mike Reilley\, Senior Lecturer at University of Illinois Chicago and founder of JournalistsToolbox.ai \nAI Tools for Journalists (60 minutes): \nClaude\, Perplexity\, ChatGPT\, Google Gemini\, Midjourney and other tools. During this hands-on session\, we’ll explore what these tools can do well (help with headlines\, writing tips\, summarization\, photo illustrations) and what they do poorly (write stories\, accuracy\, etc.) and discuss legal and ethical ramifications of using them. We’ll explore many AI tools from JournalistsToolbox.ai as well. Participants will get a handout with tips\, prompts and other resources as well as free resources on Journalist’s Toolbox.ai. \nImage Creation (60 minutes): \nWe’ll work with – and modify – prompts to create images. We’ll also look at how to fact-check images to see if they’re created by AI (some new tools and techniques here). We’ll look at how tools like Midjourney have improved image quality over the past 18 months. We’ll work with DALL-E\, Adobe Firefly and other tools. \nThis session is the third of three AI for Community Media sessions organized and developed by the Center for Community Media. See details about session 1 on fact-checking tools and data journalism and session 2 on AI tools and prompt writing. The program is funded by the New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment. If you have any questions\, contact ccm@journalism.cuny.edu. \nRegister for Session 3 \n\nInstructor \nMike Reilley is the author of two books\, “Data + Journalism: A Story-Driven Approach to Learning Data Reporting” and “Journalist’s Toolbox: A Guide to Digital Reporting and AI”. Mike teaches data and digital journalism courses at the University of Illinois Chicago. He is also a digital tools trainer who has taught Google News Initiative tools to more than 12\,500 journalists and educators in the past seven years. He also is the founder of Penny Press Digital LLC\, a digital consulting and training company that works with media outlets such as USA Today. A former reporter and copy editor at the LA Times and a founding editor of ChicagoTribune.com\, Mike served for 13 years as a full-time faculty member at Northwestern\, Arizona State University and DePaul University. He holds journalism degrees from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Northwestern University. Mike founded the research site The Journalist’s Toolbox AI.
URL:https://www.journalism.cuny.edu/events/ai-for-community-media-session-3-ai-tools-for-journalists-image-creation/
LOCATION:Virtual via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Center for Community Media
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