2023 SUMMIT SCHEDULE

9:00 am ET
Welcome to the 2023 Collaborative Journalism Summit

Speakers: Silvio Waisbord, director and professor, School of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University; Stefanie Murray, director, Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University. 

9:05 a.m. ET
The 2023 State of Collaboration

Speaker: Stefanie Murray, director, Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University

9:15 a.m. ET
KEYNOTE: Strategies behind international journalism collaborations | Strategies
Description: How ICIJ and OCCRP have spurred major worldwide impact through cross-border, multilingual partnerships.

Speakers: Fergus Shiel, managing editor, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists; Kevin Hall, North America editor, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project; moderated by Ambreen Ali, Central Desi

10:00 a.m. ET
KEYNOTE: Strategies behind national collaborations | Strategies
How the Center for Public Integrity approaches partnerships across the U.S.: The Center for Public Integrity works to make investigative journalism accessible to communities affected by the topics it confronts. It believes that journalism talent lives everywhere and that by each partner sharing their superpowers we can amplify investigative reporting to reach anyone. It recognizes that newsrooms in communities across the country are emerging and might be under-resourced, so CPI creates space for local partners to determine their own level of engagement with our collaborations. Through listening, their team builds trust and work to understand the of capacity and needs of partners. This means that no two collaborations look the same and that’s OK, because no two communities are exactly the same.

Speakers: Ashley Clark, audience engagement editor, Center for Public Integrity; Lisa Yanick Litwiller, director of audience, Center for Public Integrity.

10:30 a.m. ET
KEYNOTE: Strategies behind local news collaborations | Strategies
As Resolve Philly winds down Broke in Philly, its five-year collaborative reporting project on economic mobility, the team is reflecting on lessons learned and how the collaborative approached choosing and launching its next editorial project this fall.

Speakers: Jean Friedman-Rudovsky, co-executive director, Resolve Philly; Gene Sonn, director of collaborations, Resolve Philly. 

11:15 a.m. ET
WORKSHOPS | Tools

⚒️ Tools: Common legal questions (and answers!) facing journalism collaborations
Speakers: Lisa Zycherman, deputy legal director and policy counsel, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press; Chris Rudisill, director, Charlotte Journalism Collaborative
Location: Jack Morton Auditorium

⚒️ Tools: How MuckRock and DocumentCloud can make collaborations easier and user-friendly
Speaker: Dillon Bergin, data reporter, MuckRock
Location: Room 305

⚒️ Tools: Creative Commons, the secret sauce for spreading your news
Creative Commons will provide journalists a mini-training centered around how to CC license media, and how to reuse others’ CC licensed media. CC will also highlight nearly 300 news outlets from over 50 countries that already CC license content to better spread their news. Learn how CC licensing strengthens the media ecosystem.
Speakers: Jennryn Wetzler, director of learning and training, Creative Commons
Location: Room 309

1:00 p.m. ET
Using collaboration around election coverage | Tactics

🎯 Tactics: How U.S. Democracy Day, a national collaborative about democracy reporting, is building toward 2024
Speakers: Beatrice Forman, project manager, U.S. Democracy Day; Jaisal Noor, Democracy manager, Solutions Journalism Network

1:30 p.m. ET
Using collaboration around election coverage | Tactics

🎯 Tactics: How the Every Voice, Every Vote Coalition is catalyzing civic engagement ahead of the most significant election in Philadelphia’s recent history
Speakers: Shawn Mooring, head of Philadelphia Programs, The Lenfest Institute for Journalism; Allison Vanyur, program manager, The Lenfest Institute for Journalism; Angelique Hinton, co-founder PA Youth Vote; Ashanti Martin, General Manager, WURD Radio

2:00 p.m. ET
Using collaboration around election coverage | Tactics

🎯 Tactics: America Amplified 3.0 is launching a nationwide initiative this summer aimed at increasing public knowledge about the 2024 election. Learn more about the tools, strategies, and tactics we will be sharing and how public media stations can get involved.
Speakers: Alisa Barba, managing director, American Amplified; Joy Lin, vice President of journalism, Corporation for Public Broadcasting

3:15 p.m. ET
LIGHTNING TALKS (5-7 minutes each)

⚡ Catalyzing bilingual collaboration through translation with the NJ News Commons Spanish Translation News Service
Speaker: Anthony Advincula, ethnic media coordinator, Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University

⚡ Experiments in community engagement with the New York & Michigan Solutions Journalism Collaborative
Speaker: Karen Magnuson, project director, New York & Michigan Solutions Journalism Network

⚡ How Floodlight’s model of exclusively collaborative climate accountability investigations works and could be replicated for other topics
Speaker: Emily Holden, founder, Floodlight

⚡ How the Great Salt Lake Collaborative has rallied 21 organizations to jointly cover a local crisis
Speaker: Lauren Gustus, executive editor, The Salt Lake Tribune

⚡ How the collaboration ‘After the Buses’ helped reach migrants thrown into the middle of a political stunt.
Speakers: Nissa Rhee, executive director, Borderless Magazine; Madison Savedra, reporter, Block Club Chicago

⚡ How the Prison Journalism Project shepherds intentional, careful collaboration
Speaker: Yukari Kane, founder, Prison Journalism Project