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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09:30 – 10:45 > Hotel Brufani – Sala Raffaello | panel discussion
‘Fake news’ and the misinformation ecosystem +info►
This panel will explore the current debates about the ‘fake news’ debate, examining the technical and human powered solutions that have been implemented over the past six months. What’s working? What’s not? How should different constituencies be thinking about this issues over the next 3 years including the social networks, governments, researchers, educators and audiences themselves?
09:30 – 10:45 > Sala delle Colonne, Palazzo Graziani | panel discussion
Collaborating with algorithms +info►
Some journalists approach algorithmic assistance the way one might consider hopping into a self-driving car: some are delighted, some are wary. How can software assist reporting, and how might a novice get started?
10:15 – 11:00 > Palazzo Sorbello | in conversation
Postcards from Guantanamo +info►
The session will take as its starting point the book of Laura Silvia Battaglia, Lettere da Guantanamo (Il Reportage, 2016).
10:45 – 11:45 > Sala del Dottorato | panel discussion
Reporting emerging authoritarianism +info►
This panel seeks to start a discussion on the what of emerging authoritarianism (What should we look out for, those events which first define an emerging authoritarian state?) and the how of reporting it (How do we respond as journalists to those events?).
10:45 – 11:45 > Centro Servizi G. Alessi | in conversation
A new era of information warfare +info►
State-sponsored hacking and leaking and what it means for journalism. “Strategic leaking“ by states and intelligence services (as opposed to whistleblowers) – and the many practical and ethical questions which this poses for journalism and media. How do we cope with this new kind of information warfare, what is our role in it, what are our duties – and are there any best practises yet?
11:45 – 13:00 > Centro Servizi G. Alessi | panel discussion
How digital can save journalism in the Middle East and Arab World +info►
Digital can help us strip journalism bare of all the connotations of its previous mediums and bring it back to its core; a value added. Journalism is not the news; it’s putting the news in context, explaining it. The digital medium allows you to explore more complex issues and find innovative, immersive ways to share these issues with your audience. Conduct comprehensive journalistic research and then think how can this best be presented. With that we will also need to re-asses how we define journalists, let go of the notion that journalists need bylines and word limits. A morphing between journalists and artists that will bring about a new hybrid of digital thinkers, who can research, interview, cite, code and create.
11:45 – 13:00 > Hotel Brufani – Sala Raffaello | in conversation
Trump: the Kremlin candidate? +info►
Russian investigative journalist Andrei Soldatov and BBC Panorama reporter John Sweeney assess the evidence that the man in the White House may have got there thanks to the man in the Kremlin. The Donald and Vladimir: nothing to see here? Or are the Russians winning the Cold War thanks to five goals in injury time? The session will begin with a screening of John Sweeney’s documentary Trump: the Kremlin Candidate?
12:00 – 13:00 > Palazzo Sorbello | panel discussion
‘Fake news’ and the misinformation ecosystem +info►
00:00 – 10:45 > location | panel
‘Fake news’ and the misinformation ecosystem +info►
00:00 – 10:45 > location | panel
‘Fake news’ and the misinformation ecosystem +info►
00:00 – 10:45 > location | panel
‘Fake news’ and the misinformation ecosystem +info►
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