Digital and social media have increased the burden on the public to differentiate between journalism-produced news, manipulative content and disinformation in an environment of information overload, d...
Mandy Jenkins
Mandy Jenkins is General Manager of The Compass Experiment, a partnership between Google and McClatchy to explore sustainable business models for local news. Over the next three years, she will be leading the launch of three digital-only news operations in U.S. communities that have limited sources of local, independent journalism. The first site, Mahoning Matters, launched in October 2019 in Youngstown, Ohio.
Prior to her work with Compass, Mandy was a 2019 John S. Knight journalism fellow at Stanford University, where she competed an ethnographic study on the disconnection between disinformation consumers and mainstream news. She has served in leadership roles at Storyful and Digital First Media’s Project Thunderdome and has driven innovative digital journalism projects within The Huffington Post, TBD.com, The Cincinnati Enquirer and The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Mandy has taught digital and social media skills workshops for journalists across the world, including as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Mandy is on the Board of Directors for the Online News Association and News Leaders Association. She resides in New York City.
The news industry pivots from tackling one fundamental challenge threatening our very existence to another. It is also fair to say that we have seen some of these things coming but not been able to ac...
News jobs in the US dropped by 25% in the decade between 2008 and 2018, hitting local newsrooms the hardest. At the same time, local news remains the most trusted by audiences, and a critical front li...
This session brings together three different approaches to the study of trust in media and its relationship to the spread of disinformation: Mandy Jenkins will share findings from Project Disconnect,...
In this highly interactive session, attendees will break into groups to design a mock disinformation campaign aimed at manipulating the media into spreading a false story. Afterward, the groups will s...
The role of social newsgathering in newsrooms has become more ethically complex than ever in recent months, as those who seek to disrupt disinformation and propaganda campaigns must adapt to an enemy ...
Automating verification? The role of technology in the verification process: status, activities and challenges
The session will investigate and outline how and to what extent technology (such as tools, Artificial Intelligence, machine learning) can support journalists, fact-checkers and those investigating hum...
Trust in media and the fight against misinformation is a global problem that requires a global solution; it can never be solved within one region alone, or just by the richest newsrooms. Across the...
What if news organizations optimized every part of the operation for trust rather than speed? How would that change our products, our processes -- what, when and how we publish? How would optimizing f...
Periscope, Facebook Live and now Instagram Stories are changing breaking news coverage. What are the ethical implications for news organization? Should you embed a feed? Should you add a delay? Should...
In this workshop, participants will learn how to set up systems that allow you to monitor social media effectively so you will be the first to find out when news breaks. Learn how to find eyewitness...
Messaging apps and Chatapps like Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger, Snapchat, Viber, and WeChat are soaring in popularity. This shift means that increasingly, valuable eyewitness media is being shared on...
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