We invite you to check out the full festival programme on the website, but to provide a taster we have prepared the following brief overview. By clicking on +info► you can link to full details of each session, and then add it if you wish to your personal festival day-by-day agenda on your computer or smartphone.
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10:30 – 11:30 > Sala del Dottorato | panel discussion
Disruptive storytelling in the digital age +info►
The session will consider new approaches to storytelling in the digital age, including innovative technologies and methods being used to source stories and new formats being used to visualize the stories being told.
10:30 – 11:45 > Hotel Brufani – Sala Raffaello | panel discussion
Making secondary trauma a primary issue +info►
Understanding the impact of vicarious trauma in newsrooms. Organised in association with the First Draft News Coalition.
11:00 – 13:00 > Hotel Sangallo | workshop
Twitter and Periscope masterclass for journalists +info►
Please note that this session will be the same as the Twitter masterclass on Wednesday 06 April at 14.00, due to the fact it forms part of the formal training programme run by the Italian National Association of Journalists.
11:45 – 13:00 > Hotel Brufani – Sala Raffaello | panel discussion
PR in the digital age: communication or information? +info►
The press offices of big companies are increasingly becoming newsrooms: producing articles, videos, images, managing in-depth magazines and interacting directly with the public. Between storytelling and social networks the boundary between communication and information is increasingly blurred.
11:45 – 13:15 > Centro Servizi G. Alessi | panel discussion
A golden age of investigative reporting? +info►
Are we living in the golden age of investigative journalism? What happens when traditional reporting meets modern data analysis?
12:00 – 13:00 > Hotel Brufani – Sala Perugino | presentation
Robot: tools, conditions and challenges of automated journalism +info►
Recommend automation tools that help journalists with their day-to-day tasks. Learn from the attendees the differences in the use of automation tools across newsrooms and countries.
14:00 – 15:00 > Sala del Dottorato | panel discussion
Reporting on the refugee crisis +info►
Understanding and responsibly reporting rather than sensationalising the refugee crisis poses complex challenges and requires both a detailed grasp of its different dimensions and a big picture view.
14:00 – 15:30 > Hotel Brufani – Sala Raffaello | panel discussion
The death of journalistic objectivity +info►
Thanks to social media everyone can have an opinion and a voice, but should journalists get personal too? Emotional imagery and words are a great way to get traffic on social media or to get an audience to pay attention, but shouldn’t the news be balanced and factual? Or is better for journalists to wear their hearts on their sleeves and to be honest about their views?
14:00 – 15:00 > Centro Servizi G. Alessi | panel discussion
Best practices: mobile video vs social video +info►
This panel brings together editorial experts to share practical advice on creating mobile and social video, and examines the differences and overlaps between social and mobile audiences.
15:00 – 16:30 > Centro Servizi G. Alessi | panel discussion
Hacking the newsroom +info►
How hackers and journalists are working together to change the shape of journalism to come.
16:30 – 18:00 > Hotel Brufani – Sala Raffaello | panel discussion
Automating verification: how far can we go? +info►
We’ve seen a few high-profile projects that have shown the value in verification and tools, but what are the theoretical limits for automating the verification process? Where are we now?
16:30 – 17:30 > Sala del Dottorato | workshop
I, journalist: from gonzo journalism to immersive journalism +info►
Regardless of whether it is called deep journalism, niche reporting or immersive journalism, the goal is the same: to create forms of narrative that knock down the barriers between those who produce and those who consume news, focusing on empathy that new technologies are driving and, in some ways, dictating.
17:00 – 18:30 > Palazzo Sorbello | panel discussion
Unmask the corrupt: from follow the money to follow the stocks +info►
IRPI, Italian centre of investigative reporting, and ANCIR, African network for investigative reporting based in South Africa, are launching a “Mafia in Africa” follow up based on #panamapapers tomorrow on The Namibian and Friday on the Mail&Guardian which will be presented for the first time in this session – with Alessia Cerantola, for the Panamapapers project, Cecilia Anesi for Irpi.
17:00 – 18:00 > Hotel Brufani – Sala Priori | workshop
The responsibility of reporting graphic imagery: ideas for protecting yourself and your audience +info►
Sourcing and verifying eyewitness media from the social web is now a standard requirement for many journalists, whether reporting breaking news events or investigating atrocities. In this workshop, Claire Wardle and Andy Carvin will present some best practice techniques for reducing the traumatic impact of viewing and investigating graphic imagery.
17:30 – 19:00 > Sala del Dottorato | panel discussion
Captured news media: the case of Turkey +info►
Turkey ranks in 149th place in the Reporters without Borders World Press Freedom Index, below Zimbabwe and Burma/Myanmar. In its 2014 report, Freedom House demoted Turkish media from being “partly free” to “not free.” Turkey remains the only nation in its European peer group to be so dishonored.
18:00 – 19:00 > Hotel Brufani – Sala Priori | workshop
Effective tools and techniques for verifying social content +info►
In this workshop, led by two of First Draft’s verification experts, participants will learn how to check the provenance, date and location of images and videos sourced from the social web. How do you know whether you’re looking at the original? Can you track down someone’s telephone number simply from their social username? How can you find out when a photograph or video was created, rather than simply when it was uploaded? How can you double check that the footage was captured at the location of the news event?
18:00 – 19:00 > Hotel Brufani – Sala Raffaello | panel discussion
Protecting journalism sources in the digital age +info►
A major new UN study of 121 countries’ legal source protection frameworks has found that they are out of date and need strengthening in many cases. It also recommends that ‘acts of journalism’ should be shielded from targeted surveillance and data retention to prevent the exposure of confidential sources.
21:00 – 22:00 > Sala dei Notari | in conversation with
#ThisIsACoup: how the EU destroyed the Tsipras government +info►
Theopi Skarlatos and Paul Mason on the making of #ThisIsACoup, a four-part 2015 documentary series which examines life under austerity in Greece, the country’s confrontation with the EU, and the emotional turmoil accompanying political change. It is directed by Theopi Skarlatos and produced by Paul Mason for Field of Vision, the visual journalism film unit of The Intercept. Moderated by Leonardo Bianchi.
22:00 – 23:00 > Sala dei Notari | documentary
#ThisIsACoup +info►
Screening of #ThisIsACoup, a four-part 2015 documentary series (total duration 64 minutes) which examines life under austerity in Greece, the country’s confrontation with the EU, and the emotional turmoil accompanying political change. It is directed by Theopi Skarlatos and produced by Paul Mason for Field of Vision, the visual journalism film unit of The Intercept.