2018 People-Powered Publishing Conference Schedule

2018 People-Powered Publishing Conference Schedule #PPPC18

Overview

Thursday, November 15

Friday, November 16

Welcome and Opening Remarks (9:00 AM)
Film Row Auditorium (1104 S Wabash Ave, Fl 8)

Sessions (9:45 - 10:45 AM)

Clinic (9:45 - 11:15 AM)

Sessions (11:00 AM - 12:00 PM)

Clinic (11:30 AM - 1:00 PM)

Lunch and Workshop (12:00 - 1:30 PM)
(RSVP required for workshop)

Sessions (1:30 - 2:30 PM)

Clinic (1:45 - 3:45 PM)

Sessions (3:00 - 4:00 PM)

Clinic (4:00 - 6:00 PM)

Sessions (4:15 - 5:15 PM)

Plenary Session (6:30 - 8:00 PM)
Film Row Auditorium

Clinic (9:00 - 11:00 AM)

Sessions (9:30 - 10:30 AM)

Sessions (11:00 AM - 12:00 PM)

Lunch and Clinic Track Participant Presentations (12:30 - 1:30 PM)

Session (1:30 - 3:00 PM)

Seed Grant Award Ceremony and Closing (3:00 - 3:30 PM)

Session Schedule (click session title for details)

Thursday, November 15
9:45 AM -- 10:45 AM
The Trust Gap: How Citizens Define Trust and How Journalists Can Earn It Room 836 Lisa Heyamoto Senior Journalism Instructor, University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication Todd Milbourn Instructor and Co-Director, Journalism Master’s Program, University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication	Strengthen Your Community and Your Journalism by Designing New Public Conversations Room 837 Anne Hillman Solutions Desk Reporter, Alaska Public Media Doug Oplinger Project Manager, Your Voice Ohio Andrew Rockway Program Director, The Jefferson Center	Supercharge Your Collaborations: How Multi-Newsroom Partnerships and Community Engagement Can Enhance One Another Film Row Auditorium Jean Friedman-Rudovsky Co-Executive Director, Resolve Philadelphia; Editor, Broke in Philly Emma Restrepo Host, ParaTi Mujer Radio Program Antoine Haywood Doctoral student, University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School for Communication; Former Director of Outreach, PhillyCAM (Community Access Media) Al Lubrano Staff Writer, Philadelphia Inquirer
11:00 AM -- 12:00 PM
Lessons from Gather, A Project and Platform to Support Community-Minded Journalists and Other Engagement Professionals Room 836 Andrew DeVigal Endowed Chair in Journalism Innovation & Civic Engagement, Agora Journalism Center, University of Oregon Alisha Saville Project Manager, Gather Carrie Brown Director of Social Journalism, Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY	Why You (Still) Need to Be There Room 837 Dennis Anderson Executive Editor, Peoria Journal Star	Two Mothers and a Podcast Film Row Auditorium Alison Flowers Journalist, Author and Producer, Invisible Institute Shapearl Wells Investigative Podcast Host
12:00 -- 1:30 PM
Story Doctor with Curious City -- RSVP Required Room 808 Jesse Dukes Audio Producer, Curious City Alexandra Salomon Editor, Curious City Shawn Allee Senior Editor, Curious City Katherine Nagasawa Multimedia Producer, Curious City
1:30 -- 2:30 PM
Rethink Your Comments Room 835 Andrew Losowsky Project Lead, The Coral Project	People-Powered Coverage of Immigrant Communities at a Time of Fear Room 837 Yana Kunichoff (moderator) Migratory Notes Alex Hernandez Engagement Director, 90 Days, 90 Voices Alejandro Fernandez S. Freelance investigative journalist Melissa Sanchez Investigative Reporter, ProPublica	Tune In. Turn Up! Community-Building and Disruption of Mainstream Media Film Row Auditorium Logan Bay Station Director, Lumpen Radio Vanessa Sanchez Director, Yollocalli Youth Arts Reach Stephanie Manriquez Instructor, Yollocalli Youth Arts Reach
3:00 -- 4:00 PM
Fake News, Real People: Community Engagement at the Intersection of Theater and Journalism Room 837 Coya Paz Artistic Director, Free Street Theater Katrina Dion Operations and Youth Program Manager, Free Street Theater Logan Jaffe Engagement Reporter, ProPublica Illinois	Social Justice Stories Across Diasporas: Lessons from Reporting on Chicago and Puerto Rico Film Row Auditorium Kari Lydersen Co-Director, Social Justice News Nexus, Medill School of Journalism Marla Pérez Lugo University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Cecilio Ortiz García University of Puerto Rico, Mayguez Adriana Cardona-Maguigad Reporter, WBEZ; Former reporter, Univision
4:15 -- 5:15 PM
When Engagement Goes Sideways: How USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism Fellows Navigated Roadblocks Room 837 Olivia Henry Engagement Editor, Center for Health Journalism Michelle Levander Director, USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism Bob Ortega Senior Writer, CNN Investigations Mackenzie Mays Investigative Reporter, Fresno Bee	Reporting for America Film Row Auditorium Kevin Grant Co-Founder and Executive Editor, The GroundTruth Project; VP for Strategic Initiatives, Report for America Chris Fusco Editor-in-Chief, Chicago Sun-Times Manny Ramos Report for America corps member, Chicago Sun-Times R.L. Nave Editor-in-Chief, Mississippi Today Michelle Liu Report for America corps member, Mississippi Today
6:30 -- 8:00 PM
Plenary Session Engagement and the Question of “Impact:” Institutions, Communities, and Approaches to Change Film Row Auditorium Andrea Hart Co-Founder and Director of Community Engagement, City Bureau Jennifer Brandel Co-Founder and CEO, Hearken Eric Gordon Engagement Lab Director and Professor of Visual and Media Arts, Emerson College Sharlyn Grace Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director, Chicago Community Bond Fund Alex Muhammad Lead Political Organizer, Mass Liberation Project at People’s Action Lewis Wallace Independent Writer, Editor, and Multimedia Journalist Charles Preston Contributing Writer, Chicago Defender; Chicago community activist

Thursday, November 15

9:45 AM -- 10:45 AM

The Trust Gap: How Citizens Define Trust and How Journalists Can Earn It

Room 836

Lisa Heyamoto
Senior Journalism Instructor, University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication

Todd Milbourn
Instructor and Co-Director, Journalism Master’s Program, University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication

Strengthen Your Community and Your Journalism by Designing New Public Conversations

Room 837

Anne Hillman
Solutions Desk Reporter, Alaska Public Media

Doug Oplinger
Project Manager, Your Voice Ohio

Andrew Rockway
Program Director, The Jefferson Center

Supercharge Your Collaborations: How Multi-Newsroom Partnerships and Community Engagement Can Enhance One Another

Film Row Auditorium

Jean Friedman-Rudovsky
Co-Executive Director, Resolve Philadelphia; Editor, Broke in Philly

Emma Restrepo
Host, ParaTi Mujer Radio Program

Antoine Haywood
Doctoral student, University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School for Communication; Former Director of Outreach, PhillyCAM (Community Access Media)

Al Lubrano
Staff Writer, Philadelphia Inquirer

11:00 AM -- 12:00 PM

Lessons from Gather, A Project and Platform to Support Community-Minded Journalists and Other Engagement Professionals

Room 836

Andrew DeVigal
Endowed Chair in Journalism Innovation & Civic Engagement, Agora Journalism Center, University of Oregon

Alisha Saville
Project Manager, Gather

Carrie Brown
Director of Social Journalism, Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY

Why You (Still) Need to Be There

Room 837

Dennis Anderson
Executive Editor, Peoria Journal Star

Two Mothers and a Podcast

Film Row Auditorium

Alison Flowers
Journalist, Author and Producer, Invisible Institute

Shapearl Wells
Investigative Podcast Host

12:00 -- 1:30 PM

Story Doctor with Curious City -- RSVP Required

Room 808

Jesse Dukes
Audio Producer, Curious City

Alexandra Salomon
Editor, Curious City

Shawn Allee
Senior Editor, Curious City

Katherine Nagasawa
Multimedia Producer, Curious City

1:30 -- 2:30 PM

Rethink Your Comments

Room 835

Andrew Losowsky
Project Lead, The Coral Project

People-Powered Coverage of Immigrant Communities at a Time of Fear

Room 837

Yana Kunichoff (moderator)
Migratory Notes

Alex Hernandez
Engagement Director, 90 Days, 90 Voices

Alejandro Fernandez S.
Freelance investigative journalist

Melissa Sanchez
Investigative Reporter, ProPublica

Tune In. Turn Up! Community-Building and Disruption of Mainstream Media

Film Row Auditorium

Logan Bay
Station Director, Lumpen Radio

Vanessa Sanchez
Director, Yollocalli Youth Arts Reach

Stephanie Manriquez
Instructor, Yollocalli Youth Arts Reach

3:00 -- 4:00 PM

Fake News, Real People: Community Engagement at the Intersection of Theater and Journalism

Room 837

Coya Paz
Artistic Director, Free Street Theater

Katrina Dion
Operations and Youth Program Manager, Free Street Theater

Logan Jaffe
Engagement Reporter, ProPublica Illinois

Social Justice Stories Across Diasporas: Lessons from Reporting on Chicago and Puerto Rico

Film Row Auditorium

Kari Lydersen
Co-Director, Social Justice News Nexus, Medill School of Journalism

Marla Pérez Lugo
University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

Cecilio Ortiz García
University of Puerto Rico, Mayguez

Adriana Cardona-Maguigad
Reporter, WBEZ; Former reporter, Univision

4:15 -- 5:15 PM

When Engagement Goes Sideways: How USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism Fellows Navigated Roadblocks

Room 837

Olivia Henry
Engagement Editor, Center for Health Journalism

Michelle Levander
Director, USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism

Bob Ortega
Senior Writer, CNN Investigations

Mackenzie Mays
Investigative Reporter, Fresno Bee

Reporting for America

Film Row Auditorium

Kevin Grant
Co-Founder and Executive Editor, The GroundTruth Project; VP for Strategic Initiatives, Report for America

Chris Fusco
Editor-in-Chief, Chicago Sun-Times

Manny Ramos
Report for America corps member, Chicago Sun-Times

R.L. Nave
Editor-in-Chief, Mississippi Today

Michelle Liu
Report for America corps member, Mississippi Today

6:30 -- 8:00 PM

Plenary Session
Engagement and the Question of “Impact:” Institutions, Communities, and Approaches to Change

Film Row Auditorium

Andrea Hart
Co-Founder and Director of Community Engagement, City Bureau

Jennifer Brandel
Co-Founder and CEO, Hearken

Eric Gordon
Engagement Lab Director and Professor of Visual and Media Arts, Emerson College

Sharlyn Grace
Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director, Chicago Community Bond Fund

Alex Muhammad
Lead Political Organizer, Mass Liberation Project at People’s Action

Lewis Wallace
Independent Writer, Editor, and Multimedia Journalist

Charles Preston
Contributing Writer, Chicago Defender; Chicago community activist

Friday, November 16
9:30 -- 10:30 AM
Using Research to Engage Communities: Bridging the Gap Between Academics and Media Room 836 Andrea Wenzel Assistant Professor, Temple University Jeanette Woods Coordinating Producer and Editor, Community Media, WHYY	Localore Live: Making Stories With and For the People Room 837 Tran Vu Program Director, Association of Independents in Radio Ryan McGrath Web Producer, Association of Independents in Radio Amy Feiereisel Producer, Localore Live Brittany Thomas Producer, Localore Live	Out in the Field: Connecting with Rural Audiences Film Row Auditorium Beena Raghavendran Engagement Reporting Fellow, ProPublica Local Reporting Network Pamela Dempsey Executive Director, Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting Kristin Walters Senior Engagement Strategist, Illinois Newsroom Terry Parris Jr. (Moderator) Deputy Editor, Engagement, ProPublica
11:00 AM -- 12:00 PM
Looking at “Engaged” Journalism as Just Good Journalism Room 836 Jesse Hardman (moderator) Listening Post Collective Program Manager, Internews Dawaune Lamont Hayes Director, North Omaha Information Support Everyone (NOISE) Carmen Velasco Roman Community Manager, Information as Aid Puerto Rico	Bring It In and Pay It Forward: Putting the Community’s Skills at the Heart of Reporting Room 837 Madalina Ciobanu Project Manager, Engaged Journalism Accelerator, European Journalism Center Rachel Hamada Community Organizer, Bureau Local	When the "Audience" and the Public Differ, Which Should Journalists Pursue? Film Row Auditorium Jacob Nelson Assistant Professor, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University
12:30 -- 1:30 PM
Clinic Track Participant Presentations Details coming soon
1:30 -- 3:00 PM
Work With Your Audience Members for Fun and Profit Film Row Auditorium Jennifer Brandel Co-Founder and CEO, Hearken Andrew Haeg CEO, GroundSource Ben Whitelaw Engagement Lead, Engaged Journalism Accelerator, European Journalism Center Emily Goglioski Research Director, Membership Puzzle

Friday, November 16

9:30 -- 10:30 AM

Using Research to Engage Communities: Bridging the Gap Between Academics and Media

Room 836

Andrea Wenzel
Assistant Professor, Temple University

Jeanette Woods
Coordinating Producer and Editor, Community Media, WHYY

Localore Live: Making Stories With and For the People

Room 837

Tran Vu
Program Director, Association of Independents in Radio

Ryan McGrath
Web Producer, Association of Independents in Radio

Amy Feiereisel
Producer, Localore Live

Brittany Thomas
Producer, Localore Live

Out in the Field: Connecting with Rural Audiences

Film Row Auditorium

Beena Raghavendran
Engagement Reporting Fellow, ProPublica Local Reporting Network

Pamela Dempsey
Executive Director, Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting

Kristin Walters
Senior Engagement Strategist, Illinois Newsroom

Terry Parris Jr. (Moderator)
Deputy Editor, Engagement, ProPublica

11:00 AM -- 12:00 PM

Looking at “Engaged” Journalism as Just Good Journalism

Room 836

Jesse Hardman (moderator)
Listening Post Collective Program Manager, Internews

Dawaune Lamont Hayes
Director, North Omaha Information Support Everyone (NOISE)

Carmen Velasco Roman
Community Manager, Information as Aid Puerto Rico

Bring It In and Pay It Forward: Putting the Community’s Skills at the Heart of Reporting

Room 837

Madalina Ciobanu
Project Manager, Engaged Journalism Accelerator, European Journalism Center

Rachel Hamada
Community Organizer, Bureau Local

When the "Audience" and the Public Differ, Which Should Journalists Pursue?

Film Row Auditorium

Jacob Nelson
Assistant Professor, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University

12:30 -- 1:30 PM

Clinic Track Participant Presentations

Details coming soon

1:30 -- 3:00 PM

Work With Your Audience Members for Fun and Profit

Film Row Auditorium

Jennifer Brandel
Co-Founder and CEO, Hearken

Andrew Haeg
CEO, GroundSource

Ben Whitelaw
Engagement Lead, Engaged Journalism Accelerator, European Journalism Center

Emily Goglioski
Research Director, Membership Puzzle

Clinic Schedule

Advance registration is required to participate in the Clinic track. Participants should plan to attend all five Clinics. Click here to apply to participate in the Clinic track.
Thursday, November 15	Friday, November 16
9:45 AM – 11:15 AM System and Stakeholder Mapping, Part 1 Find Water in a Media Desert: Mapping Information Ecosystems to Serve Local News Needs Facilitators: Michelle Ferrier Dean, School of Journalism & Graphic Communication, Florida A&M University Fiona Morgan Principal, Branchhead Consulting	9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Reporting Collaboratively, Partnering Equitably What is Accountable Local Community Reporting? Facilitators: Andrea Hart Co-Founder and Director of Community Engagement, City Bureau Jen Sabella Co-Founder, Block Club Chicago Val Free Southeast Block Club Alliance Jahmal Cole My Block, My Hood, My City Demario Phipps-Smith Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief, CULTURE
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM System and Stakeholder Mapping, Part 2 Systems thinking for journalism: Working with your community to address complex problems Facilitators: Heather Chaplin Engagement Lead, Journalism + Design, The New School Cole Goins Engagement Lead, Journalism + Design, The New School
1:45 PM – 3:45 PM Building Trust and Building Networks Don’t Just Engage, Organize! Learn How Outreach, Relationships and Sharing Power Can Build a Movement for Better Local News Facilitators: Mike Rispoli News Voices Director, Free Press James Thompson Organizer, Free Press Alicia Bell Organizer, Free Press
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM Event Design for Real-World Dialogue Developing Engaged Journalism Through Dialogue: The World Café Method Facilitator: Jesikah Maria Ross Senior Engagement Strategist, Capitol Public Radio

Advance registration is required to participate in the Clinic track. Participants should plan to attend all five Clinics. Click here to apply to participate in the Clinic track.

Thursday, November 15

Friday, November 16

9:45 AM – 11:15 AM

System and Stakeholder Mapping, Part 1
Find Water in a Media Desert: Mapping Information Ecosystems to Serve Local News Needs

Facilitators:
Michelle Ferrier
Dean, School of Journalism & Graphic Communication, Florida A&M University

Fiona Morgan
Principal, Branchhead Consulting

9:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Reporting Collaboratively, Partnering Equitably
What is Accountable Local Community Reporting?

Facilitators:
Andrea Hart
Co-Founder and Director of Community Engagement, City Bureau

Jen Sabella
Co-Founder, Block Club Chicago

Val Free
Southeast Block Club Alliance

Jahmal Cole
My Block, My Hood, My City

Demario Phipps-Smith
Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief, CULTURE

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

System and Stakeholder Mapping, Part 2
Systems thinking for journalism: Working with your community to address complex problems

Facilitators:
Heather Chaplin
Engagement Lead, Journalism + Design, The New School

Cole Goins
Engagement Lead, Journalism + Design, The New School

1:45 PM – 3:45 PM

Building Trust and Building Networks
Don’t Just Engage, Organize! Learn How Outreach, Relationships and Sharing Power Can Build a Movement for Better Local News

Facilitators:
Mike Rispoli
News Voices Director, Free Press

James Thompson
Organizer, Free Press

Alicia Bell
Organizer, Free Press

4:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Event Design for Real-World Dialogue
Developing Engaged Journalism Through Dialogue: The World Café Method

Facilitator:
Jesikah Maria Ross
Senior Engagement Strategist, Capitol Public Radio