Schedule

Day One

Friday, April 19

8:30am| HALL OF HISTORY/SLUSSER ROOM, INTERNATIONAL HOUSE

Continental Breakfast & Registration

9:30AM| Chevron Auditorium

Opening Remarks

 9:50am| Chevron Auditorium

Panel | All About the Ocean: Behind the Scenes of Three Great Investigations

Moderator: Sewell Chan, The Texas Tribune | Panelists: Renata Brito, Associated Press; Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times; and Lee van der Voo, Oregon News Exploration

11:00am| Chevron Auditorium

Lightning Talk | Inaugural Whistleblower-in-Residence Lecture

Reality Winner in conversation with Lois Vossen, ITVS

11:30am| Slusser room 

Lunch

12:30Pm| Chevron Auditorium

Panel | Making it Sing: The Investigative Narrative

Moderator: T. Christian Miller, ProPublica | Panelists: Azam Ahmed, The New York Times and Azalea Rodriguez

1:30PM | Chevron Auditorium

Panel | When Law Enforcement is Lawless

Moderator: Wesley Lowery, The Investigative Reporting Workshop | Panelists: Jamie Kalven, Invisible Institute; Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Today; and Ilyssa Daly

2:30PM | Hall of History + Chevron Auditorium

BREAK

2:45Pm| chevron Auditorium

Panel | Intimidation Tactics: Threats to Local Investigative Reporting

Moderator: Ricardo Sandoval-Palos, PBS | Panelists: Eric Meyer, Marion County Record; Kirstin McCudden, Freedom of the Press Foundation; Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times; and Quinn Mitchell

4:00PM| Chevron Auditorium

Lightning Talk | Why We Fight Back

Speaker: Ramona Giwargis, San José Spotlight

4:15pm| Chevron Auditorium + Hall of History

BREAK + Mentor/Mentee Meet & Greet

4:45Pm| Chevron Auditorium

Panel | Let's Talk Impact!

Moderator: Lisa Armstrong, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism | Panelists: Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine/Howard University, and Kevin Merida

6:00Pm| North Gate Hall Courtyard

Reception

Day Two

Saturday, April 20

8:30am| HALL OF HISTORY/SLUSSER ROOM, INTERNATIONAL HOUSE

Continental Breakfast & Registration

9:30am| Chevron Auditorium

Opening Remarks

9:40am| Chevron Auditorium

Panel | Reinventing Investigative Storytelling - A Case Study in Gaza

Moderator: David Barstow | Panelists: Anjali Singhvi, Haeyoun Park, Bora Erden, and Ishaan Jhaveri, The New York Times

10:45am| Hall of History + Chevron Auditorium

BREAK

11:00am| Chevron Auditorium

Lightning Talk | Seeing the Story: Investigative Journalism And Trans Lives

Speaker: Gina Chua, Semafor

11:15am| Chevron Auditorium

Conversation | Tracking the Origins of Anti-Trans Disinformation

Imara Jones, TransLash in conversation with Orion Rummler, The 19th News

12:15Pm| Slusser Room  

Lunch

1:45Pm| Chevron Auditorium

Lightning Talks | The AI Revolution in Journalism

Speakers: Hany Farid, UC Berkeley; Joe Palermo, OpenAI; and Karen Hao

2:45pm| Hall of History + Chevron Auditorium

BREAK

3:15Pm| Chevron Auditorium

Panel | Green Shoots: Growing Investigative Newsrooms

Moderator: Wendi Thomas, MLK50: Justice Through Journalism | Panelists: Monika Bauerlein, Mother Jones; Akash Mehta, New York Focus; and Emily Holden, Floodlight

4:15PM| Chevron Auditorium

Keynote Introduction

4:30Pm| Chevron Auditorium

Keynote: Susan Chira, Editor-in-Chief, The Marshall Project

5:30PM| North Gate hall courtyard

Al Fresco Dinner at North Gate Hall

OPEN SOURCE INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING WORKSHOPS - SEPARATE TICKET REQUIRED

Sunday, April 21

11:00am| North Gate Hall Courtyard

Brunch 

11:30Am| North Gate Hall Classrooms

Workshop Session 1

Introduction to Open Source Investigative Reporting with Gisela Pérez de Acha and Sasha Schell 

Investigating Digital Election Ads with Craig Silverman

 

1:00PM | North Gate Hall Courtyard

Break

1:15Pm| North Gate Hall Classrooms

Workshop Session 2

Networks of Money and Power: How to Report on AI with Karen Hao and Lam Thuy Vo

New Tools and Tactics for Conflict Reporting - with Alexa Koenig, Joe Dyke, Emily Tripp, and Jackie Geis