COMING UP: Editors’ Day, Danish Media Association, Odense, Denmark, November 2019.
“What makes a product (un)successful?”, WAN-IFRA Digital Media North America, New York, June 2019.
“Inside the Washington Post newsroom,” WAN-IFRA World News Media Congress, Glasgow, Scotland, June 2019.
"Freedom and moderation: news, comments & artificial intelligence." Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media, Hamburg, Germany, February 28, 2019.
2019
2018
"The Washington Post: A news organization, a tech company – and a model for the news industry?", Global Editors Network Summit, Lisbon, June 1, 2018.
"Can AI Soothe the Savage Comment Section?" SXSW Interactive, Austin, Texas, March 12, 2018.
2017
"Selling New Ideas in Old Newsrooms," Media Party 2017, Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 14, 2017.
"Trolls in the newsroom: coping strategies for online harassment," International Journalism Festival, Perugia, Italy, April 8, 2017.
"The Coral Project: Free Engagement Tools for Newsrooms," International Journalism Festival, Perugia, Italy, April 8, 2017.
"Collaborating With Algorithms," International Journalism Festival, Perugia, Italy, April 6, 2017.
2016
Ignite talk, VOCER Innovation Day, Hamburg, Germany, Nov. 19, 2016.
“Algorithms as a Democracy-Killer?”, panel, VOCER Innovation Day, Hamburg, Germany, Nov. 19, 2016.
“Do Audience Better,” Online News Association conference, Denver, Sept. 15, 2016.
“Ask,” Hacks/Hackers New York City Demo Day, New York, Sept. 6, 2016.
“Tools of Trust,” WAN-IFRA World News Media Congress, Cartagena, Colombia, June 14, 2016.
“How Community Engagement Can Enhance Your Reporting,” National Press Foundation webcast, Washington, D.C., April 22, 2016.
“Evolution of Local News,” Newspaper Association of America’s MediaXChange, Washington, D.C., April 18, 2016.
“The Coral Project: Building better communities” International Journalism Festival, Perugia, Italy, April 8, 2016.
“Latest developers: engineers and editors together in an innovative newsroom,” International Journalism Festival, Perugia, Italy, April 7, 2016.
“Creating community: how effective curation of interactive spaces can bring readers together,” International Journalism Festival, Perugia, Italy, April 7, 2016.
“Comments Are Terrible, But They Don’t Have to Be,” SXSW Interactive Festival, Austin, Texas, March 14, 2016.
“Beyond Comments: Building Better Conversations,” co-organizer, Knight Foundation / MIT Media Lab / The Coral Project, Boston, Feb. 17, 2016
“The Coral Project: Building Communities From the Ground Up,” Association of Alternative Newsmedia Digital, San Francisco, Jan. 23, 2016.
“A Culture of Innovation,” WAN-IFRA Brain Trust seminar series, Yangon, Myanmar, Jan. 18-20, 2016.
2015
“2016: A Revolution in Storytelling,” keynote speaker, Congres 2015, Federation Professionnelle des Journalistes du Quebec, November 22, 2015.
“Read the Comments,” presenter (via video), 8th NEO Media Lab, Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 3, 2015
“Culture 3.0 in News,” moderator, D.C. Media Innovations meetup, Washington, D.C., November 2, 2015.
“Media Day 2015,” panelist, College of William & Mary, Arlington, Va., Oct. 12, 2015
“Building Online Communities,” panelist, Create Digital, Washington D.C., October 1, 2015.
“Engaging Communities From the Ground Up,” Online News Association Conference, Los Angeles, September 25, 2015
“Truth and Trolls: Dealing with Toxic Speech While Protecting Free Speech Online” (panel), Internet Governance Forum, Washington D.C., July 16, 2015
“A Community on Mobile: Paper Prototyping With the Coral Project” (workshop), SRCCON, Minneapolis, June 25, 2015
“The Coral Project,” ONADC, Washington D.C., June 23, 2015
“The Coral Project,” Al Neuharth Free Spirit and Journalism Conference, Washington D.C., June 22, 2015
“Harnessing the Power of the Audience,” (panel) WAN-IFRA 22nd World Editors Forum, Washington D.C., June 3, 2015
“The Coral Project, in Seven Minutes or Less,” Poynter Annotation Summit, New York, May 20, 2015
“Trolls Aren’t Killing Engagement on New Sites — Our Approach Is,”Digital Journalism World Summit, Singapore, May 12, 2015
“Industry Panel Discussion” (panel), Digital Journalism World Summit, Singapore, May 11, 2015
“The Future of Online Commenting” (panel), International Journalism Festival, Perugia, Italy, April 17, 2015
“Tech vs. Journalism: Who’s in Control?” (panel), International Journalism Festival, Perugia, Italy, April 16, 2015
Coral Project meetup, NICAR, April 7, 2015.
2014
“The Coral Project” Hacks/Hackers London, London, UK, Oct. 27, 2014
“The Coral Project” MozFest, London, UK, Oct. 25, 2014
Panel: “Engagement: Get, grow and manage civil conversations,” WAN-IFRA 13th International Newsroom Summit, Amsterdam, Netherland, Oct. 13, 2014
“The Coral Project,” TED, New York, July 17, 2014