Integrating artificial intelligence into journalism requires moving past abstract debates and into practical, daily workflows. Newsrooms face persistent operational challenges: establishing internal governance, protecting privacy in sensitive investigations, and adapting infrastructure for AI-driven discovery.
Making its European debut on September 7 and 8, 2026, at CaixaForum Barcelona, Media Party brings practitioners together to turn technical uncertainty into actionable solutions. This article examines five hands-on workshops in the Newsrooms + AI track designed to help newsrooms safely and effectively implement AI.
5 Workshops to Build, Secure, and Scale AI in Your Newsroom
Monday, September 7
- From AI Policy to AI Governance: Build Rules Your Newsroom Can Actually Use
Speaker: Branislava Lovre
This session provides a structured framework to translate high-level ethical commitments into concrete newsroom guidelines, risk registers, and day-to-day approval workflows.
- Local LLMs for Investigative Journalism: The Epstein Files as a Case Study
Speaker: Teresa Mondría Terol
Using the Epstein Files as a case study, this workshop demonstrates how to deploy local text and vision models to analyze massive document sets while maintaining strict data privacy and security.
- Do Agents Have Needs? Building Your Agent Readiness Layer
Speaker: Dmitry Shishkin
Grounded in the User Needs Model, this workshop guides participants through auditing and adapting content structures so autonomous AI agents can retrieve and deliver reporting without stripping away editorial context.
- Everyone Can Build: A Newsroom Buildathon
Led by Cloudflare, this practical buildathon removes typical infrastructure barriers to help non-developer journalists and editors build and deploy functional, secure AI applications in a single session.
Tuesday, September 8
- Nine Months of Investigation to Write Four Paragraphs: Everything You Need to Know About Investigating with AI
Speaker: Romina Colman
Learn Directly from the Experts Reshaping Journalism
Media Party isn’t a place to sit back and watch—it’s a space to learn by doing. Bring your laptop, test real-world tools, and master the AI workflows that will power the next era of journalism. You will walk away not with abstract theories, but with practical skills, tested code, and frameworks you can immediately teach your team.
Your ticket to Media Party Barcelona gives you access to all 5 workshops. Event capacity is limited so don’t miss your chance to level up your newsroom!
🗓️ Explore the full schedule & line-up.
🎟️ Get your ticket for Media Party Barcelona 2026 at mediaparty.org.
