SPEAKERS
Jaqui Maher — Conde Nast
http://condenastinternational.com
Jacqui heads up interactive journalism at Condé Nast International, where her team is part of the new international Vogue editorial hub. Tasked with creating new storytelling formats and content distribution for the established leading fashion magazine, her team creates long form visual coverage, conversational bots and more. Previously she was at the BBC, The New York Times, and Hearst. A native New Yorker, she lives with her dog in London.
Pablo Mercado — Vox Media
Pablo Mercado is the Chief Technology Officer of Vox Media, one of the growing digital media companies in the world. Vox Media is a prestigious media company that believes in the power of going deeper to connect with global, passionate, curious audiences. Through our authoritative house of brands, commitment to technology, and high-fidelity advertising, we are known for shaping the future of journalism and entertainment. The Media Group include the management of Vox, The Verge, SB Nation, Polygon, Eater, Racked, Curbed, Recode, among others.
Sonya Song — Chartbeat
Sonya Song a multi-awarded scholar studying a wide variety of media-related subjects, including media economics, media psychology, distributed content, censorship and propaganda. She is currently working at Chartbeat where she focuses on user behaviors and business models and offers insights to a variety of publishers around the world. Prior to Chartbeat, Sonya was a 2014 Harvard Berkman Fellow, a 2013 Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Fellow and a 2012 Google Policy Fellow. Sonya obtained her PhD from Michigan State University with concentration on media economics, a field that answers the question how to make money using media content. Before moving to the US, Sonya studied computer science at Tsinghua University in Beijing and journalism at the University of Hong Kong.
Greg Barber — Washington Post
Greg Barber is the Director of Newsroom Product at The Washington Post, He lead a team that oversees The Post newsroom’s product portfolio, working with editors, reporters, designers, engineers and product managers to create and extend our storytelling tools and platforms. He’s also co-founder and lead for strategy and partnerships at The Coral Project, a collaboration between The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Mozilla, funded by a grant from the Knight Foundation, that builds free, open-source software to help news organizations create and enliven communities around their journalism.
Friedrich Lindenberg — OCCRP
Friedrich Lindenberg is a software developer and data wrangler working on methods to support effective journalism, activism and civic participation. He works with the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) to develop data-driven investigative research techniques and infrastructure. Previously, he was a 2014 ICFJ Knight International Journalism Fellow with Code for Africa, and a 2013 Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Fellow at Spiegel Online.
Kareem Sakka
Progressive Grassroots Pan Arab media showcasing stories from around the 22 Arab countries. Post Arab Spring start up, home to good journalism on lifestyle, culture and politics. Independent from affiliations that govern Arab media, Raseef22 provides a unique and native angle on Arab affairs and understands local scenes.
Dima Khatib — Al Jazeerah +
Dima Khatib is the Managing Director of AJ+,an award-winning digital news service in English, Arabic and Spanish launched by Al Jazeera Media Network in San Francisco, USA. She is currently the only female executive director within the Al Jazeera group and one of few female leaders in the Arab media sphere.
Jonathan Albright — Columbia University
Jonathan Albright is a professor, award-nominated data journalist, and researcher in news and media analytics. His work lies at the interface of communication, culture, and technology — focusing on the thematic analysis of online and socially-mediated news events, creative data-driven journalistic methods, and informational visual storytelling. He can be found on Twitter @d1gi
Andrew Losowsky — Mozilla Foundation
Project Lead, The Coral Project at Mozilla. Losowski is an experienced editor with a passion for engaging audiences through shared experiences. Among his projects, Losowski have worked on new mobile platform for News Corp, was Senior Editor at The Huffington Post, turning a new section into an internationally respected voice, Led editorial operations across eight European cities at a publishing startup, overseeing digital and print products including a monthly magazine of short-form and medium-form journalism, Built a publishing toolkit prototype for crisis situations. H has written for The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, and The Times of London, and developed multi-million dollar storytelling projects for brands including Nokia and Virgin. He is an expert in editorial design and strategy, with particular relevance to independent media, and I give lectures and workshops around the world. Perhaps we can work together on something fun.
Pietro Passarelli — Autoedit.io
Pietro is a software developer and documentary filmmaker. He is passionate about projects that sit at the intersection between software development and video production, both in terms of the growing trend of interactive documentaries but also as tools for making video production and post-production easier, such as [autoEdit](http://pietropassarelli.com/autoEdit.html). While working in broadcast documentaries for BBC and C4 Pietro noticed the convergence of video production and software development and did an MSc in Computer Science at UCL. He then worked as newsroom developer at the Times & Sunday Times where he developed [quickQuote](http://times.github.io/quickQuote/) an open-source project to make it easier and faster for journalists to identify and create an interactive video quote. Last year he was one of the 2016 knight-Mozilla Fellow with Open News at Vox Media where he worked on [autoEdit.io](http://autoedit.io/) super fast text based video editing software that more then halves the time it takes to edit video interviews.
Derek Silverman — Facebook
I am a front-end engineer at CrowdTangle @ Facebook. CrowdTangle makes it incredibly easy to find and track content on the social web. The company was acquired by Facebook and open for publishers for free.
Albert Sun — The New York Times
Assistant Editor at The New York Times, working with our personalization team and our Global expansion team to adapt and internationalize our coverage. Thinking about cross overs between technologists and journalists.
Ed Bice — Meedan
Meedan is a hybrid for profit and non-profit social technology enterprise which aims to increase cross-language interaction on the web, with particular emphasis social media verification and social media translation tools. Checkdesk is a product for newsrooms that helps them collaborate with citizen journalists to fact-check and verify media around breaking events. Bridge is a platform for social media translation. People should talk to me about: 1. verification tools 2. incentives for translators 3. mobile translation 4. egypt 5. sustainable models for social tech 6. meedan
Jenny 8 Lee — Hacks/Hackers
I’m co-founder and CEO of a litÂerÂary studio called PlympÂton, which innovates in digital publishing and has partnered with the New York Public Library, the White House, the New York Times, Audible, Twitter and the MIT Media Lab.I produce film projects, including “The Search for GenÂeral Tso,” which premiered at the 2014 TriBeCa Film Festival. I was an associate producer on Chasing Coral, which won the 2017 Sundance Audience Award.I created Emojicon, a celebration of all things emoji that drew together a thousand people over a weekend in San Francisco in November 2016. Sponsors included GE, Panda Express, Timberland, Taco Bell, ESPN, Adobe Typekit, and Baidu. I’m a member of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee.In the past: I was one of the youngest full-reporters ever hired by The New York Times, where I worked for nine years. I wrote a book called The ForÂtune Cookie ChronÂiÂcles, on how ChiÂnese food is all-American and hit #26 on the New York Times bestseller list. I was a lead judge in the Knight News ChalÂlenge.Projects that I (or others) dreamt up that I’ve helped make real include News Foo, Hackers/Hackers, Misinfocon, Recovering the Classics, Spark Camp, and NewsDiffs. In journalism, I serve on the board of the CenÂter for PubÂlic Integrity and InsideClimate News, on the advisory boards of the NieÂman FounÂdaÂtion and the Polk Awards, and also on the Robert F. Kennedy Courage in JourÂnalÂism awards. I also am on the board of Hacks/Hackers.
Felipe Estefan — Omidyar Network
Felipe structures and manages investments in Latin America as part of Omidyar Network’s Governance & Citizen Engagement initiative. He leads the firm’s efforts to advance civic technology, independent media, open data, and fiscal governance in the region. In the context of his role, Felipe is a member in the Board of Directors of IMCO and Nossas Cidades, an observer on the Board of Colab.re, and a member of the Board of Advisors of Chequeado.Before joining Omidyar Network, Felipe was the open government strategist at the World Bank, where he traveled to more than 30 countries advocating for and advancing efforts to make governments more open and to foster collaboration between state and non-state actors. He was also a founding team member of the Open Contracting Partnership, where he coordinated efforts to increase transparency in public contracting processes around the world. Prior to the World Bank, Felipe was a planning producer at CNN’s Washington, DC bureau and was part of the Permanent Mission of Colombia to the United Nations in Switzerland.Felipe holds a master’s in international relations from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, a master’s in public relations from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, and a Certificate of Advanced Study in conflict resolution from Syracuse University. Felipe also received a bachelor’s in international relations and media & society from Hobart College, where he graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.
MarĂa Teresa Ronderos — Open Society Foundation
Maria Teresa Ronderos, as the director of the Open Society Program on Independent Journalism, oversees the support for the protection and the production of high quality journalism that engages with audiences and communities and elicits the kind of critical thinking that any society that aims at remaining open requires.Ronderos comes to the Open Society Foundations from Semana, Colombia’s leading news magazine, where she served in a range of senior editorial roles. Together with the Ideas for Peace Foundation, she has been the creator and editor-in-chief of VerdadAbierta.com, a website covering armed conflict in Colombia. She is the author of the bestselling book on the subject, Guerras Recicladas for which she was awarded the Simon Bolivar National Award for “Journalist of the year” in 2015.Ronderos serves on the boards of the Garcia Marquez Iberoamerican Foundation for New Journalism and the Columbia School of Journalism Cabot Awards. Ronderos has trained professional Latin American journalists and led workshops, online courses, and seminars on investigative journalism, politics, and economic issues.Ronderos has received the King of Spain Iberoamerican Award, the Columbia University Maria Moors Cabot Award and was a 2012 visiting fellow at Harvard University’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.
