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Dimmi Amora, founder of Agência Infra: a journalistic product to serve a specific sector of the market. Photo: André Coelho

Balancing content and business: a challenge of Brazilian journalists’ startup covering infrastructure

Digital Natives: Agência Infra, which started 2017, is a Brazilian digital news organization that covers infrastructure projects for a demanding public and experiments with different products and services.

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Knight Center’s ISOJ Online reaches thousands of people around the world, breaks records for the 21 year-old journalism conference

It took us a couple of months to figure out what would be the best way to host ISOJ for the first time online only. With happy hearts and a lot of gratitude, we can say that ISOJ 2020 broke records. We had the biggest program ever, a record number of speakers and topics covered and reached the largest audience of our history, in the U.S. and around the world.

AI OSINT panel on Zoom

Machine intelligence empowers journalism by giving journalists the opportunity to see what they missed, panelists say

Computers will do as much as they are told to do, and it takes a team of journalists to do so, said the panelists during ISOJ.

Deep fake panel on Zoom

Basic principles of journalism are key to identifying authenticity of visual content

The increasing trend in cheap fakes and deep fakes could very well become a larger issue for the journalism industry, which is why reporters should know how to detect them, said panelists during a discussion at ISOJ.

Deb Adeogba (Microsoft News), Aron Pilhofer (Temple University & News Catalyst), Cindy Royal (Texas State University), and Millie Tran (Texas Tribune).

Changing the mindset of journalists towards a product-oriented newsroom can open new revenue streams for journalism, panel says

Many newsrooms struggle for survival in a very adverse business environment. Still, news organizations are tasked with the challenge of shaping their editorial content into products that make sense for their audiences.

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Machine learning can help newsrooms find stories, advance their goals

Machine learning can help journalists enhance their workflow and find stories that may have been missed otherwise, said Google News Lab teaching fellow Michael Grant during a brunch workshop at ISOJ.

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Pioneer site covering Brazilian Congress shows how to achieve relevance and sustainability

Political coverage in Brasilia is the most sought after in Brazil. Venturing into this already saturated market is for the brave few. Thriving is even rarer. In 16 years, this is exactly what the Congresso em Foco achieved and became a reference in the coverage of Brasília.

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New fund launched to 'accelerate' independent digital media in Latin America with financing and advising

At a time when journalism is subject to various threats in Latin America, independent media require not only sufficient funding, but also encouragement and guidance from other organizations that have tried successful formulas.

Selymar Colón (Erika Rich-Knight Center)

‘Lightning round’ at ISOJ focuses on funding for Latin American media, online harassment, spatial journalism and more

archives courtesy of their local reporting. Wrapping up the lightning round at ISOJ was Selymar Colón, vice president and editor-in-chief for Digital News at Univision. She made a passionate and fun plea for journalists to shoot video vertically with their smartphones instead of horizontally.

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ISOJ panelists discuss the importance and challenges of integrating artificial intelligence with journalism

When we are talking about artificial intelligence in journalism, we need to talk about the human-centered aspect, said Nick Diakopoulos, assistant professor in Communication Studies and Computer Science at Northwestern University on April 13 at the 20th annual International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ).