The Shape of our Lives
/We become so accustomed to the shape of our lives that we are convinced no other is possible. And yet, of course, it is.
28 Webinars this week about AI, Journalism & Media
/Mon, Nov 2 - Together We Rise: TikTok Edition
What: This is an informal dialogue and discussion space to be together, to share experiences, and to remind one another that we are part of a supportive community that cares deeply about learning, justice, and human dignity.
Who: Marie Celestin, podcaster; Renee Hobbs.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Media Education Lab
Tue, Nov 3 - Beyond the CPU: Exposing AI Attacks in the GPU Stack
What: We will break down the GPU attack surface layer by layer, from orchestration and container runtime risks to driver exploits, side channels, cryptojacking, and ROME-class attacks. He will show what attackers gain, what current tools actually see, and what security teams can do to close the visibility gap.
Who: Chris Hosking, Director of Accelerator & AI Research, Stealthium.
When: 6 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: BrightTALK
Tue, Nov 3 - Write Into Art: Creative Writing Inspired by Visual Art
What: Discover how visual art can inspire creative writing and how writing can offer a powerful way to experience art. This course of three online workshops explore essential elements of writing and styles through close looking, word-sketching, and imaginative response to prompts.
Who: Mary Hall Surface, the founding instructor of the National Gallery of Art’s popular Writing Salon.
When: 10 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: $45 members, $55 nonmembers
Sponsor: Smithsonian
Tue, Nov 3 - Reclaiming Creativity
What: Join a panel discussion, the first episode of Canva for Creatives. Hear from leading creative and industry voices about what's shifting, what the new standard of professional creative work looks like, and how the best in the business are responding.
Who: Deanna German (Affinity); Liza Enebeis (Studio Dumbar/DEPT); Lisa Smith (Uncommon); Alex Bec (It's Nice That); Ollie Scott for Reclaiming Creativity.
When: 11 am, Eastern or 7 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Canva
Tue, Nov 3 - Designing ‘Sizing Chaos’: Creating engaging, interactive visuals
What: You’ll learn: The story behind the story of “Sizing Chaos,” and how the award-winning visual essay was brought to life; Tips on the craft of visual storytelling that powers The Pudding, a decorated media platform where innovative design meets culture journalism; How to use data and present visuals that capture readers’ attention and tell journalistic stories in unique ways.
Who: Amanda Sakuma is a freelance journalist, editor, and content strategist; Jan Diehm is the editorial director and a journalist-engineer at The Pudding and its sister studio, Polygraph.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: National Press Club Journalism Institute
Tue, Nov 3 - Beyond Search: From Keywords to AI-Integrated Discovery
What: How AI can work alongside lawyers and investigators.
Who: Wendy Robinson, Director, HKA Global, Dubai UAE; Dan Reed, CEO & Founder, R3nquist; John Tredennick, CEO & Founder, Merlin Search Technologies; William Webber, Chief Data Scientist, Merlin Search Technologies.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Electronic Discovery Reference Model
Tue, Nov 3 - Preparing Your Nonprofit for 2027: Technology, AI, and Digital Strategy
What: We will guide nonprofit leaders through the key planning considerations that will shape technology and AI strategy in the coming year. Topics include: How to evaluate and prioritize platform investments; How to build a practical AI roadmap for your organization; How to plan for staff capacity and skill development; Which emerging trends are worth acting on now versus monitoring for later.
Who: Aretha Simons, founder of Multiplying Talents International.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Tapp Network
Tue, Nov 3 - AI Works When People Do
What: This webcast will show you how to move past isolated pockets of adoption to build a strategy that sticks at every level. We’ll cover: How to turn AI driven disruption into team opportunities; The first steps leaders should take to kickstart AI adoption; The critical human behaviors that unlock AI adoption at scale.
Who: Kwesi Johnson Senior Consultant, Franklin Covey, Enterprise Consultant Team.
When: 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Training Magazine Network
Tue, Nov 3 - Open Source + AI: Where Attackers Move Next in 2027
What: We will identify the threat vectors set to define risk across open-source software, AI systems, and supply chains. The session will turn the hard lessons of 2026 into actionable foresight. Expect clear guidance on where advanced attackers are likely to strike next, which structural weaknesses enable those moves, and what defensive architectures can close the most critical gaps.
Who: Yesenia Yser, Founder, Yes2Tech- Software Security Engineering Consulting.
When: 5 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: BrightTALK
Wed, Nov 4 - Practical AI for Small Business: What’s Possible, What’s Worth It, and What Isn’t
What: We’ll cover the most common places automation shows up in a small business; How to audit your own operation for tasks that are good candidates; How to evaluate whether a task is actually worth automating; What this realistically costs and what the return looks like, using real numbers from real implementations; and more.
Who: Barb Donnini is the President and Founder of Boxplot.
When: 9 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Small Business Development Center, Temple University
Wed, Nov 4 - Media Literacy in a Time of War: Voices from Palestine
What: This session presents findings from Media Literacy: Critical Thinking for an AI World, a 21-month program that trained 17 Palestinian educators, reached 138 youth, and drew 4.9 million views on Instagram for youth-created media work. Learn what the data revealed about teaching media literacy competencies amid propaganda, deepfakes, and "conflict entrepreneurs" who profit from polarization and why educators described media literacy as civic survival.
Who: Jad Melki of the Lebanese American University, author of Media Literacy of the Oppressed.
When: 11 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Media Education Lab
Wed, Nov 4 - SEO Fixes for AI Search Visibility in 2027
What: In this session, you’ll watch a couple experienced auditors work through a real site from first check to final priority list. You’ll leave knowing which problems deserve your next dollar of dev time.
Who: Loren Baker, founder of SEJ; Vahan Petrosyan, head of SEJ technology; Katie Morton, Executive Editor, Search Engine Journal.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Search Engine Journal
Wed, Nov 4 - AI Across the Employment Lifecycle
What: This webinar will examine AI’s developing role in hiring, pay, promotion, performance monitoring, and termination, with a focus on discrimination and accommodation risks, federal and state law developments, recent litigation and related takeaways, and mitigating attendant risks when using AI for employment decisions. Attendees will learn practical strategies to capture AI’s benefits while keeping consequential workforce decisions defensible.
Who: Katy Bell Bremmer, Of Counsel, Carlton Fields; Lucas Michelen, Of Counsel, Carlton Fields.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Carlton Fields
Wed, Nov 4 - AI Impact Hour for Nonprofits
What: A practical, interactive conversation designed for executive directors, staff, board members, and volunteers who want to understand what AI can realistically do in a nonprofit setting. You’ll see simple demonstrations and real examples, and you'll have a chance to share your experiences, challenges, and insights with the group.
Who: Aretha Simons, TechSoup’s Webinar Producer.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: TechSoup
Wed, Nov 4 - Donor Outreach Made Easy: How to Leverage AI but Maintain Authenticity
What: We will explore how fundraisers can use AI and automation to make donor outreach more timely, personalized, and authentic. We’ll share strategies on how to streamline donor communications, tailor outreach based on donor information and engagement, and use AI to save time without losing the human connection that makes fundraising effective.
Who: Marissa Minter, Product Marketing, Velora.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Nonprofit Learning Lab
Wed, Nov 4 - Agentic Super Intelligence and the Future of the Department of War’s Materials Science & Technology Enterprise
What: This workshop will explore how advances in super intelligence (SI) can help overcome longstanding barriers to transitioning promising research and development into practical applications, manufacturing capabilities, acquisition programs, and operational deployment.
When: 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Wed, Nov 4 - Weakest Link: How Security Gaps and Bad AI Hygiene Can Kill a Business
What: We will walks through the security gaps and bad AI habits he sees most often in real organizations: free tools that keep or train on what employees type, shared and orphaned logins, sensitive data pasted into public AI, and AI agents wired into business systems with no owner and no oversight. He'll show how these small gaps chain together into a business-ending incident, and why adopting AI without a plan means adopting risk without a plan.
Who: John Hansman, CEO, Tru.
When: 5 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: BrightTALK
Wed, Nov 4 - Transform Marketing with Storytelling
What: Discover how to share your story in a way that helps people connect with you and what you do.
Who: Mariah MacInnes of Content Queen.
When: 8 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Gippsland Women in Business
Thu, Nov 5 - Rethinking your Creative Stack
What: Why creative teams are reconsidering long-standing tools and workflows; What drives the decision to adopt a new creative stack; What teams can learn from making the transition in the real world.
Who: Duncan Clark (Canva); Eddie Opara (Pentagram); Luca Gonnelli (Algo & Illo); Tim Siddons (Blackmagic Design).
When: 11 am, Eastern or 7 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Canva
Thu, Nov 5 - Developing critical thinking skills with primary sources in the age of AI
What: How AI is influencing research. They’ll explore approaches to AI literacy and how technology can enhance discovery and engagement with primary source material.
Who: Sarah Morris, Library Director, Educator and Curriculum Designer, Oglethorpe University; Hannah Phillips, Associate Director for Editorial Production, AM.
When: 11 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: AM
Thu, Nov 5 - AI Voices vs Humans: What We’re Learning and What It Means Speakers
What: This session unpacks the latest market stats on AI voice adoption Research-based comparisons of learner outcomes; Practical use cases for AI and human narration; What the options are in AI vs voice actors vs DIY in-house recording; A model for quantifying the decision between AI vs humans; Strategies to blend the strengths of both for future-proof training.
Who: David Goldberg CEO, Prosody; Kerri Acheson, CEO, WordsCompany.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Allego
Thu, Nov 5 - How to Limit Risk and Exposure from Agentic AI
What: We will contextualize the fundamental shift occurring in 2026, including the "Bring Your Own Agent" phenomenon where autonomous agents are now integrated directly into operating systems and corporate workflows. We'll dissect the real-world threat vectors that security teams must address—from indirect prompt injection attacks and software supply chain compromises to the architectural trade-offs between cloud-based frontier models and self-hosted alternatives.
Who: Pascal Geenens, VP of Cyber Threat Intelligence at Radware; Simon Ratcliffe, Independent Management & Technology Consultant.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: BrightTALK
Thu, Nov 5 - AI at the VA: Current Uses, Governance, and What’s Ahead
What: An overview of the benefits and risks of using AI in public services, examine the current uses and governance of AI tools at the VA (with a focus on high-risk tools), and explore the future challenges and opportunities as AI at the VA continues to evolve. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of how AI tools are currently being used at the VA, as well as the potential risks and benefits that come with those uses.
Who: Hannah Quay-de la Valle, Senior Technologist on the Center for Democracy & Technology’s Equity in Civic Technology team.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Military Veterans in Journalism
Thu, Nov 5 - AI for Small Business Finance — Know Your Numbers, Grow with Confidence
What: You’ll use AI tools to understand cash flow, explore pricing and profit scenarios, and turn confusing numbers into actionable insights. End the session with a clearer financial picture and a repeatable process for making confident, number-driven decisions.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Small Business Development Center, Widener University
Thu, Nov 5 - No Budget Marketing Tips to Give Your Nonprofit More Buzz!
What: In this session, you will learn easy and inexpensive marketing tips to better communicate your mission and give your nonprofit more buzz! How to use your smart phone to capture quality images/videos and transform them into compelling promos for your nonprofit.
Who: Nonprofit fundraiser and marketer for 20+ years Michael Hemphill.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: $40 members
Sponsor: Public Relations Society of America
Thu, Nov 5 - Archival & Clearance for Today’s Storytellers
What: We will pulls back the curtain on one of the most overlooked pillars of nonfiction production. Topics covered include: How to integrate clearance thinking from day one, not as a final step; What E&O insurance actually requires and how to prepare for it; Fair use in documentary: what it covers and where it ends; How to clear footage, music, life rights, and third-party IP; When you need a legal opinion letter, and when you don’t.
Who: VC member Teddy Cannon, an Archival & Clearance Producer and the founder of Crux Entertainment, Inc.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Video Consortium
Thu, Nov 5 - Beyond the Final Score: Stronger Sports Reporting and Storytelling
What: This session will cover: Finding compelling stories beyond traditional game coverage Fresh angles that engage readers Building productive relationships with sources Conducting stronger, more revealing interviews
Who: Scott Dochterman covers national college sports for The Athletic.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: $35
Sponsor: Online Media Campus
Thu, Nov 5 - Preparing Students for the AI-Powered Ag Tech Workforce: Real-World STEM Connections
What: We will share how educators can prepare students for careers in agricultural technology (Ag Tech). Learn how AI, math, computer science, and real farm challenges come together to make STEM feel relevant to students.
Who: Deborah Crawford, Coordinator of Secondary Mathematics, Frederick County Public Schools (VA); Laura Rice, Assistant Professor, Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education, Penn State University; and Alan Ireland, Brand Marketing Lead, CodeVA.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Pitsco Education
“AI Experience” in Job Ads
/Hiring teams often don't fully agree internally on what they want. They write "AI experience" because it signals modernity and filters for candidates who've been paying attention to recent developments — not because they have a precise competency in mind. Your first job is to decode the listing. The job description itself, the industry context, and the seniority level all carry information that tells you what the company actually needs. -KD Nuggets
17 Recent Articles about AI & Data Science
/How Does NASA's NISAR Satellite “See” Through Clouds and Polar Darkness to Track Antarctica's Ice?
How to Add Guardrails to a Local LLM Agent
38 things we've learned about building AI products
Adding architectural guardrails around how AI agents read untrusted sources
How to Build a Control Plane for AI Agents that remains deterministic when consequences require it
When to Use One Model and When to Use a Team of Agents
Everyone Is Selling AI at You — Here’s How to decode the hype
The next step for AI agents? Self-improvement. Here are 7 resources to get started.
5 Free Courses to Learn AI Engineering
Six Data Requirements to Get Your AI Agents from Demo to Production
The office of my four AI agents: marketing, a lawyer, a manager and a finance bro.
Truth Springs
/Truth springs from argument amongst friends. – David Hume
AI Definitions: Test-time Training (TTT)
/Test-time Training (TTT) – Instead of being given truthful data to get an LLM model started in the right direction, TTTs learn by performing tasks using the data. TTTs are an alternative to transformers—not only processing the data faster, but doing so without consuming nearly as much computing power and high energy demands. Instead of growing more powerful as it processes data like a transformer, TTTs encode the data into representations called weights. No matter how much data it processes, a TTT model won’t grow to become unwieldy.
It's Not the Job Titles
/A business analyst who leans heavily on AI tools all day is still just called a business analyst. An engineer whose work increasingly demands machine learning fluency is still, on paper, an engineer. The real change isn't happening in the title. It's happening in what an employer now silently expects that person to already know when they walk through the door. -The Week
Disguised
/We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. -François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
18 Articles about AI & the Creative Arts
/New Study Finds AI Has Become Mainstream in Creative Work – LA Times
Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting – WIRED
How to become an AI Designer – UX Design
AI creative platforms are moving into agency territory—inside Runway’s push into advertising - Ad Age
AI Has Plunged the Book Publishing Industry Into Utter Chaos – Wall Street Journal
Marketing’s upper middle embraces AI creative production – Digiday
Why is an AI brand focusing on film festivals? – Marketing Brew
Designers at a new crop of creative studios create fake personas they hope real people will love. Are they distorting culture or mirroring it? – New York Times
AI is entertainment's scarlet letter – Axios
Hollywood fights AI in public while quietly building it into movies – LA Times
Which AI? - Guess the Designer
How A.I. Books Sneak Their Way Into Stores - New York Times
Can AI help ‘humanise’ museums? New report reminds us why art matters in a changing world – The Conversation
New platforms in China are paying people to license their likeness for AI-generated dramas and ads – Rest of World
A New Class of Cuddly Mascots Is Selling Everything From AI to Tap Water - Wall Street Journal
Why AI won’t kill the creative class – Financial Times
A South Korean reality dating show is pairing celebrities with A.I. - New York Times
New 'Art of AI' course at the University of Central Florida sparks controversy about the technology's place in the arts – UCF Student Newspaper
The Ultimate Test
/The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands. -Alexandra Penney
A Novel Approach to Detecting AI
/Researchers have unveiled a novel approach to detecting AI. It focuses on whether a paper’s ideas—and not just the prose—came from a human or a machine. In tests, IdeaLens produces verdicts notably different from current AI-text detectors. -Science.org
AI Definitions: Technical Debt
/Technical Debt - A software development term referring to the cost of choosing fast solutions now and putting off fixing issues until a future time. The benefit of a rush to market is matched with the hope that bugs will be found later and repairs made. It can result from limited testing during the development process. Related: Ethical Debt
Try Your Best
/Try your best to make goodness attractive. That’s one of the toughest assignments you’ll ever be given. -Fred Rogers
26 Articles about the Job Search
/Have these items ready and keep them updated during your job search:
Writing samples
Printed resume
Resume for online apps
Resume reel (if appropriate)
Recommendation letters
List of job sites to check regularly
Head shots (if applicable)
List of jobs applied for and result
Thank you notes
4 Red Flags to Look for When Applying to a Media Job - NBCU Academy
5 Job Hunting Tips to Land Your Dream Career - The Skimm
5 platforms to help you find your next journalism job - Poynter
5 Tips for Aspiring Digital Copywriters - Mashable
9 tips to help you find your first job — and nail the interview - CNBC
Are you doing your job search right? How to land your first job after graduation - CNBC
Are you searching for a job? Here’s real talk about possible red flags - Poynter
College graduates begin their job search in a world being transformed by AI - PBS
Fake job postings are stealing applicants’ money and identities - Washington Post
Finding your next job: Three things to do before starting - Chronicle of Higher Education
How Companies Mislead And Take Advantage Of Job Seekers And Employees - Forbes
How to Find an "In" at your dream company-fast - The Muse
How to Job Hunt (When You’re Already Exhausted) - Harvard Business Review
How to Navigate the Jungle of Online Job Postings - Wall Street Journal
How to Request a Letter of Recommendation from Your Professor - YouTube
How to Stand out to Employers During your Job Search - Forbes
It's Impossible To Get A Job Without Having One Thing - Your Tango
Job-Hunt (multiple articles)
Job-Hunters, Have You Posted Your Résumé on TikTok? - New York Times
Not getting interviews? Troubleshoot your job search with these 3 checkpoints - Fast Company
Should you Reveal a Disability in your Job Search? - Fortune
Study shows every minute counts when replying to a potential employer - Moneywise
Tried and true job hunting advice based on my own real world job search - Fox Business
What job ghosting feels like: False hope, mistrust, a ‘retreat from life’ - Washington Post
ZipRecruiter vs. Glassdoor: Which Is the Better Job Search Site? - Entrepreneur
ZipRecruiter vs. LinkedIn: Which Is the Better Job Search Site? - Entrepreneur
Outsourcing our Judgment
/Anthropomorphizing AI systems with human names or motivations, emotions and genders can make them sound more sophisticated than they are. Even calling them agents gives them too much credit, since A.I. systems are ultimately tools of statistical probability. Assigning too much “agency” to these bots leads us to psychologically outsource our judgment. -New York Times
23 Webinars this week about AI, Journalism & Media
/Mon, Oct 26 - AI Tools for Journalism
What: Prompting basics, content creation, research, and analysis using tools like Gemini, NotebookLM, and Pinpoint. The deck will also cover Google Trends and more advanced content creation tools like Nano Banana Pro, Veo, Lyria 2 and Chrip. Verification and information integrity will be covered via the AI detection tool SynthID, with the session concluding with further Google tools that speak to keeping your journalism safe and resilient.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Google Meet
Cost: Free
Sponsors: Center for Journalism Excellence, the PNA Foundation.
Mon, Oct 26 - Covering Election Day disruptions
What: What kinds of unexpected events can disrupt voting on Election Day, how local election officials respond, and how differences in resources and procedures affect their ability to manage disruptions; What research tells us about poll watching, intimidation, and perceived threats; and how disruptions can affect poll workers and public confidence in election administration.
Who: Martha Kropf, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Mollie Cohen, Purdue University; Bridgett King, University of Kentucky Matt DeRienzo, director of SciLine.
When: 3:30 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: SciLine
Tue, Oct 27 - Turning PR, social and community into AI citations
What: We'll break down brand. PR, social posts and community conversations, explaining how each channel works, where PR, social and community need different approaches, and the tactics leading companies are already using to build stronger AI citation signals.
Who: Chris Donnelly, Co-Founder & CEO, Searchable; JP Garbaccio, Head of AEO & SEO, Searchable.
When: 11 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Searchable.
Tue, Oct 27 - Provisioned Access vs. Emergent Access: Tracing AI Agents Back to the Humans Behind Them
What: Tying agent activity back to your existing identity provider, controlling exactly what agents are allowed to touch, and keeping a full audit trail instead of a black box.
Who: CloudBolt’s Shawn Petty, Chief Customer Officer; Mike Bombard, Director of Global Pre-Sales Engineering.
When: 11:30 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: The New Stack
Tue, Oct 27 - How Harvard Business Impact Builds AI Coaches From Existing Content
What: Attendees will see how a case study becomes a coach they build one live from a sample training asset, moving from knowledge transfer to reflection on the learner’s own business to a coached conversation. They will also share how HBI’s sales team rehearses C-suite meetings with AI coaching and close with four questions to ask any AI coaching vendor.
Who: Jody Gross, HBI; Maria Walley, co-founder of Creatium; Maddy Solomon, partnerships manager.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Creatium
Tue, Oct 27 - How to Use AI to Get Mission-Critical Work Done
What: How federal and defense organizations are moving beyond experimentation to deploy AI for specific mission roles. You'll learn how to identify the best first use case, distinguish between general-purpose AI and task-focused agents, maintain accountability and traceability, and scale successes across teams without starting from scratch.
Who: Steve Mahoney, SVP of Product, Legion Intelligence.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsors: govloop & Legion Intelligence
Wed, Oct 28 - Alternate Social Platforms – Growing Your Page
What: We break down the strategies that help small businesses grow on alternative platforms like TikTok, X, Snapchat, etc. Rather than trying to fit into the over-saturated platforms like Facebook and Instagram – let’s dive into some new ones.
Who: Growing Your Page: Alternative Social Platforms
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Small Business Development Center at Widener University
Wed, Oct 28 - Student Journalists' Legal Guide to Covering Elections
What: Learn about your access rights when it comes to covering elections, including campaign events, polling places, voter records, and more. Also, a primer on your rights and responsibilities when gathering news in high-stress situations, including the right to record, protest safety tips, and your legal rights when interacting with police.
Who: Jennifer Nelson, Director of Pre-Publication Review & Journalist Support, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press; Melissa Melewsky, Legal Director, Student Press Law Center.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Student Press Law Center
Wed, Oct 28 - How to Audit Your Social Strategy
What: We will explore what a connected approach to social looks like. Attendees will learn how data and AI can turn community insight into content direction, better creator selection, and smarter amplification calls. You’ll leave with a playbook for scaling creative and creator programs without losing what makes them work: clear briefs that leave room for creator expression.
Who: Brandon Lentino, chief creative officer at Viral Nation.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: AdWeek
Wed, Oct 28 - What a Year of Building with AI Looks Like Inside Two Big Tech Learning Teams
What: This panel will examine the savings organizations expect from AI investments, showing which survive scrutiny, which remain unproven and why cost has moved both upstream (into preparation) and downstream (into validation).
Who: Ankur Rimjhim, senior director at Sify Digital Learning; Nikita Singh, senior leader of learning and certifications at Cisco; Mazie Baskin, vice president of Anaplan Academy; Roberta Gogos, independent analyst covering learning and talent at Lighthouse Research; Tom Whelan, director of corporate research at Training Industry.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Sify Digital Learning
Wed, Oct 28 - Impact Math: Measuring the ROI of LLMs
What: How do you know whether an AI pilot is delivering meaningful value? Join us for a practical session on measuring the return on investment of large language models in government workflows. We’ll explore how to establish a baseline, measure changes in time and quality, and account for the effort involved in adoption and human review. Learn how to turn those findings into a clear, credible case for what to scale, refine, or stop.
Who: David Sperry Technical Success, OpenAI.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: OpenAI
Wed, Oct 28 - Report for America Virtual Information Session
What: Interested in launching a career in journalism while making an impact in communities across the country? Join Report for America for a virtual information session to learn about the organization, its mission, and upcoming employment opportunities for emerging journalists.
When: 1:45 pm
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Report for America
Wed, Oct 28 - AI-Powered Learning Innovation: A Fast-Paced Showcase
What: You’ll get a rapid look at breakthrough solutions spanning AI-powered practice, leadership development, behavior-change platforms, frontline training, workflow-based coaching, and microlearning ecosystems. Each startup will present its vision, demonstrate its approach, and answer live questions.
Who: Vince Han, CEO and Founder, Mobile Coach.
When: 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Training Magazine Network
Thu, Oct 29 - News literacy meets AI literacy: Reconnecting students to sources in an age of generated answer
What: In this session, experts in information literacy and news literacy will explore how AI is reshaping student engagement with news and information and discuss frameworks and strategies for guiding students toward effective and responsible use. The session will also include a brief Clarivate perspective on connecting students with trusted news sources through ProQuest Newspapers. Participants will gain practical insights for supporting source evaluation, critical thinking, responsible AI use and news literacy in teaching, learning and research.
Who: Laura Saunders, Professor & Associate Dean Simmons University, School of Library and Information Science; Michael A. Spikes, Clinical Assistant Professor, Journalism; Director, Teach for Chicago Journalism Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications, Northwestern University.
When: 11 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Clarivate
Thu, Oct 29 - Your AI Risk Check-Up: A Practical Guide for Small Business Owners
What: This webinar on managing AI risk. Built on the federal NIST AI Risk Management Framework, this session shows you how to: Take stock of every AI tool your business uses Score your risk with a simple six-question check-up Protect customer data, passwords and your bank account from AI-powered scams Put a one-page AI policy in place for your team
When: 11 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Small Business Development Center, Lehigh University
Thu, Oct 29 - Making the Case for Digitized Newspaper Archives
What: You’ll hear memorable discoveries made by patrons and researchers. How digital searching saves staff time and improves service. Ways libraries promote their archives and encourage community use, and practical advice for libraries considering a similar project.
Who: Sarah Haack, Circulation Coordinator, Kearney Public Library; Kristie Lanzotti, Collection Development Coordinator, Toledo Lucas County Public Library; Lee Spearman, President Illinois Library Association, Belleville, Illinois Public Library.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: NewsBank
Thu, Oct 29 - How Agentic AI Rewrites the Rules of Workplace Training
What: We will examine both sides of the equation: the capabilities of agentic AI and the human factors that shape its success. You’ll learn where AI can enhance L&D workflows, what barriers organizations encounter during implementation and the beliefs that most influence learner engagement and trust. You’ll gain evidence‑based insights to help you adopt AI responsibly and strategically.
Who: Tom Whelan, Director of Research, Training Industry.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Training Industry
Thu, Oct 29 - Monetizing social video: Partnership strategies for newsrooms
What: Practical ways independent newsrooms can use social video to build engaged audiences and create revenue through partnerships with local businesses, creators, influencers, and other newsrooms. You’ll also learn which video formats work well for local news, how to make videos attractive to potential partners, and where platforms like YouTube, TikTok, and Meta fit into your strategy.
Who: Adriana Lacy, award-winning journalist and consultant in Boston, Massachusetts.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Society of Professional Journalists
Thu, Oct 29 - The Rise of the Chief AI Officer
What: This virtual forum will convene AI leaders from several institutions about how they got the job, what it involves, and what they’ve learned so far. Topics include: How the role differs across institutions; Where AI is gaining real momentum on campus; What responsible, scaled adoption demands of leadership; What hard-won lessons were learned from the first people to hold the job.
Who: Ian Wilhelm, Deputy Managing Editor; Heather Herrera, Vice President of Strategy and Innovation, San Francisco Bay University; Manish Parashar, Chief AI Officer, Executive Director of the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, and Presidential Professor in the Kahlert School of Computing, University of Utah; Elizabeth Reilley, Vice President of Digital Transformation & Chief AI Officer ,The University of North Carolina System.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Chronicle of Higher Ed
Thu, Oct 29 - Write Beyond Yourself: Research, Reporting, and the Art of Narrative Nonfiction
What: Best techniques for conducting and writing interviews, researching, exploring archives and analyzing keepsakes, quoting from other first sources, and reportage. Through examples of transforming source material into recreated and imagined scenes and text, you’ll discover the combination of skill, patience, and inspiration that powers successful narrative nonfiction.
Who: Narrative nonfiction writer Michael Copperman.
When: 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: CraftTalks on Writers & Writing
Fri, Oct 30 - Get Found by Donors on Google AND ChatGPT: SEO/AIO for Nonprofits
What: This session covers the SEO basics every nonprofit should have in place, plus what’s genuinely changing now that AI tools are answering people’s questions directly instead of sending them to a list of links.
Who: Kiersten Hill, Director of Nonprofit Solutions
When: 10 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Firespring
Fri, Oct 30 - ASERL Copyright Office Hour
What: Please bring your puzzling and perplexing copyright questions.
When: 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Association of Southeastern Research Libraries
Not the Same
/We are in the same storm, but not in the same boat.
Your Grandfather & Your Baby Brother
/Treat everyone with the same level of respect you would give to your grandfather and the same level of patience you would have with your baby brother. -Renee Jones
When "Human in the Loop" Doesn't Work
/One of the most common AI safeguards is to keep a human in the loop to catch the machine’s mistakes. But that assumes the human remains an independent check on the machine. If the influence runs the other way, as some research suggests, AI may alter the judgment and memories people rely on to catch its mistakes, which undermines the whole premise of the human backstop. -Washington Post
I’m Listening
/Too often we find ourselves thinking ahead to what we want to say next, not what the person we’re speaking with is saying. -Sasha Quintana