Tue, June 30 - Uncovering AI’s Human Cost: A Non Technical Toolkit for Investigative Reporters
What: Participants will be introduced to a framework that breaks down each development stage of AI into an area of coverage and learn about how they can find and report stories within each one. Students will walk away with methods and approaches on how to tackle their own AI accountability stories and learn from low-tech examples that yielded high impacts.
Who: Lam Thuy Vo, Pulitzer Center Grantee
When: 10 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Pulitzer Center
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Tue, June 30 - Who Gets to Crawl? Publisher control in the age of AI crawlers and agents
What: In this session, we will share what Cloudflare is seeing across the web, how AI crawler behavior is evolving, and what publishers can learn from the emerging infrastructure layer around bots, agents, protocols, and machine-readable rights.
Who: Sam Else, Senior Director Strategic Partnerships, Cloudflare; Ezra Eeman. Lead, AI in Media, WAN-IFRA; Kevin Anderson, Director of the Digital Revenue Network, WAN-IFRA.
When: 11 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: World Association of News Publishers
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Tue, June 30 - Operationalizing AI in Observability: From Debugging to Automated Remediation
What: We will walk through what operationalizing AI in observability actually looks like in practice, with real use case examples across each stage of the journey, from faster investigation to fully autonomous remediation.
Who: Alex Wilhelm, TNS Host; Vignesh Palaniappan, Senior Product Manager for Bits AI.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: The New Stack
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Tue, June 30 - How AI Makes the Best Leaders More Human (Not Less)
What: This webinar is about how they’re doing it, how you can do it (and support your leaders to do it too). This is a new way to think about AI – one not media-based, but reality and results driven.
Who: Kevin Eikenberry, Chief Potential Officer, The Kevin Eikenberry Group and co-founder of The Remote Leadership Institute.
When: 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Training Magazine Network
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Tue, June 30 - The ethics and law of creator-style journalism
Who: Lynn Walsh, Trusting News and Jonathan Gaston-Falk, Student Press Law Center.
When: 4 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Center for Scholastic Journalism at Kent State University & and Trusting News
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Wed, July 1 - Design for trust: Data storytelling in the age of AI
What: Learn how to stay in the driving seat as AI becomes part of your data workflow. Explore what it actually takes to build trust through data in an AI-driven world.
Who: Tey Bannerman, AI Strategy & Product Design Leader; Duncan Clark, Flourish CEO, Canva EMEA GM.
When: 11 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Flourish
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Wed, July 1 - Beyond the Prompt: Moving from Conversation to Connected Workflows
What: We'll show how AI-assisted work is moving from conversation toward delegation. You’ll learn how to define a useful outcome, provide the right context, set constraints and quality standards, and keep human judgment in the loop.
Who: Juliann Igo, GTM, OpenAI; Diana Stegall, Customer Education, OpenAI.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: OpenAI Academy
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Thu, July 2 - Visual Journalism
What: We bring together three practitioners from three of the world's leading editorial environments to explore what this craft looks like from the inside — the process, the decisions, the constraints, and the possibilities.
Who: Irene de la Torre Arenas, Financial Times; Jonas Oesch, NZZ; Marco Hernandez, The New York Times.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: On Data And Design
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