MediaNumeric Conference – The Resilience of News Media: Data, Storytelling & Democracy

The two-day, international event will create a space for exchange on how to wade through and use (big) data, tell enriched (multimedia) stories, and contribute to democracy by supporting a news media ecosystem that is more resilient to misinformation.

MediaNumeric Conference – The Resilience of News Media: Data, Storytelling & Democracy

Conference day 1
Day 1 will include a keynote presentation followed by sessions offering presentations and discussion around three themes: Search & Exploration of Data, Telling Stories with Data, and Tracking & Debunking Misinformation.

Conference day 2
Day 2 will be dedicated to hands-on workshops on data-driven journalism, fact-checking and exploitation of the MediaNumeric Academy in an academic setting.

Conference partners are European Broadcasting Union Academy, CEDMO – the Central European Digital Media Observatory, Google News Lab.

Attendees can join Day 1 in-person (in Warsaw, Poland) or online. The workshops on Day 2 will not be streamed. The event is free of charge. More details here.

About us

Check First is a leading Finnish software and methodologies company, spearheading adversarial research techniques. We believe that everyone should be able to understand how and why content is presented to them. We advocate for online clarity and accountability, building solutions to attain this goal. Partnering with leading institutions, regulators, NGOs and educators, we aim at curbing the spread of disinformation and foreign influence manipulations.

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