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February 2019
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MISINFORMATION, COMPUTATIONAL FACT-CHECKING AND CREDIBLE WEB
14 May 2019, San Francisco, USA
This workshop aims at bringing together researchers, practitioners, and educators in computer science, journalism, communication studies, information science and systems, law and public policy, psychology, and political science in order to explore four themes. Preference will be given to studies that take computational and/or data-driven approaches to the challenge.
CONFERENCE: COMMUNICATION, TECHNOLOGY AND HUMAN DIGNITY (DISPUTED RIGHTS, CONTESTED TRUTHS)
7-11 July 2019, Madrid, Spain
Find out more »GUARDIAN MASTERCLASS ON LONG-FORM JOURNALISM WITH WILL STORR
9 February 2019 – London, UK
The Guardian is holding a masterclass with one of their award-winning journalists Will Storr on long-form journalism and storytelling. The class covers the essential skills of feature writing – from pitching story ideas to editors to crafting compelling articles for different publications.
2019 ECREA JOURNALISM STUDIES CONFERENCE IN VIENNA
14-15 February 2019 – Vienna, Austria
ECREA is hosting a Journalism Studies Conference in Vienna in 2019. The conference aims to explore media ecologies, coupled with shifts in public discourse, which are challenging received assumptions about journalism, and therefore also raising fundamental questions for journalism scholars.
THE NEXT EDITION: 2019 STUDENT JOURNALISM CONFERENCE IN BOSTON
24 February 2019 – Boston, MA
The Daily Free Press, Boston University's independent, student-run newspaper, is holding its second annual networking conference "The Next Edition" in 2019.
KNIGHT MEDIA FORUM 2019
26-27 February 2019 – Miami, United States
The Knight Media forum gathers leaders in journalism, technology and philanthropy to explore the ways to strengthen local news and our democracy. This year, they seek to highlight innovative experiments in local journalism and ways to increase trust in media.
March 2019
DAVID AARONOVITCH TO GIVE JOURNALISM TALK AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY
1 March 2019 – Oxford, UK
David Aaronovitch of The Times will give a talk on the journalism industry to undergraduate students at the University of Oxford. The event is being organised by the Geddes Journalism Trust and St. Edmund Hall.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: CLAIMING CIVIC SPACE TOGETHER
4-5 March 2019 – Copenhagen, Denmark
Global Focus and members are inviting civil society actors, governments and the private sector from around the world to the two-day international conference: “Claiming Civic Space Together – Joint strategies to ensure development and humanitarian action"
UN HLP ON DIGITAL COOPERATION SECRETARIAT HOSTS VIRTUAL TOWN HALLS
04 March 2019 – Online
The UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation Secretariat hosts Virtual Town Halls on every first Monday of the month to share updates and open discussions.
CONFERENCE: 14TH WAN-IFRA MIDDLE EAST CONFERENCE
6-7 March 2019, Dubai, UAE
14TH WAN-IFRA Middle East Conference
2019 INVESTIGATIVE REPORTERS & EDITORS CONFERENCE IN CALIFORNIA
7-10 March 2019 – Northport Beach, California
Join CAR and NICAR for the 25th Annual "Investigative Reporters & Editors Conference" in Northport Beach, California, in 2019. Come and learn about tools you need to dig deeper into stories and give readers, viewers and your online audience the information they're demanding.
DIVERSITY IN THE MEDIA: FROM THE PERIPHERY TO THE THE CENTRE
7 March 2019 - New York, United States
Join BBC’s Razia Iqbal, Anita Anand & Buzzfeed’s Elizabeth Pears for a discussion on aspirations, breaking stereotypes, creating spaces, survival skills and opening up possibilities.
2019 JOURNALISM AND COMMUNICATION HISTORY CONFERENCE IN NEW YORK
9 March 2019 – New York City
The Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference (JJCHC), co-sponsored by the American Journalism Historians Association and the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, is now accepting submissions for their 2019 conference.
63rd SESSION OF THE COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN
11-22 March 2019 - New York, United States
The sixty-third session of the Commission on the Status of Women will take place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 11 to 22 March 2019.
ELECTIONS, PUBLIC CONTRACTING AND OPEN GOVERNANCE
13 March 2019 - Johannesburg, South Africa
Article 19, the Right 2 Know Campaign, Hivos and the Campaign for Freedom of Information invite you to attend a discussion on the on three key issues for sustainable development in Africa.
“DOES THE ONLINE SPACE ALLOW WOMEN IN MEDIA TO CHALLENGE STEREOTYPING AND MISREPRESENTATION?”
21 March 2019 – New York, United States
GFMD will be co-hosting a media development panel as part of NGO CSW63 to explore the ways in which women are harnessing online spaces to challenge the stereotyping and misrepresentation in the media.
ACCESS NOW WILL HOST SUMMIT ON PRIVACY AND DATA
27 March 2019, Washington DC, USA
The Data Privacy Summit will bring together experts to map out the current landscape for privacy and data in the United States, and to chart a path forward for a user-centered data protection framework.
April 2019
13th INTERNATIONAL JOURNALISM FESTIVAL 2019
3 - 7 April 2019 - Perugia, Italy
The thirteenth edition of the International Journalism Festival will take place at Perugia, Italy from 03 to 07 April 2019. The programme attempts to cover most of the major issues of current interest in the media and beyond.
JOIN ESOMAR IN BRAZIL FOR THEIR 2019 CONFERENCE
7-9 April 2019 – San Paulo, Brazil
Join ESOMAR for their 2019 conference in San Paulo, Brazil. The two-day conference will discuss everything from business to methodologies, having you to make the best from your work.
INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS’ 2019 MIDWEST JOURNALISM CONFERENCE
12-13 April 2019 – Bloomington, Minnesota
Join the Institute for Non Profit News for their 2019 Midwest Journalism Conference, held in Bloomington, Minnesota. The two-day conference invites journalists from across the Midwest to participate in training sessions, awards ceremonies and networking.