OPENING REMARKS Karin Wilkins, Dean, UM School of Communication

KEYNOTE Homa Hosseinmardi, University of California, Los Angeles
Talk Title: Overexamined Algorithms and Overlooked Agency: Rethinking Online Harm

TALK Journalism and Autocratic Power | Introduced by Rahul Bhargava, Assistant Professor, Northwestern University College of Media, Arts, and Design
PANELISTS
Andres Snitcofsky, Lead Project Manager, Cargografias | Information + Interface Designer, Visualizando.ar
Talk Title: Visualizing Absence: Data storytelling when the numbers are missing in the context of enforced disappearance
Ilia Veniavkin, Researcher + Content Editor/Producer, Bard College
Talk Title: Blueprints for Outlasting Media Erasure: Scaling Russian Independent Media Archive

TALK Education, Collaboration, and Outreach | Introduced by Larry Birnbaum, Professor of Computer Science | Northwestern University McCormick School of Engineering
PANELISTS
Bonny McClain, Royal Society of Arts Fellow | Geospatial Analyst, Data Storyteller, Author
Talk Title: Decoding Climate Science with Open Data Resources: What AI’s Energy Needs Mean for Our Planet
Ata Aydin Uslu, PhD Student | Northeastern University Network Science Institute, and John Wihbey, David Lazer, Katherine Ognyanova, Matthew A. Baum, Mauricio Santillana, Roy H. Perlis, Hong Qu, James N. Druckman
Talk Title: From Surveys to Stories: The CHIP50 Project as a Data Collaboration Model for Academics and Journalists
Simran Parwani, Data Visualization Designer and Developer
Talk Title: Inclusive Pedagogies for Data Journalism: Reflection, Resistance, and Empathy

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Helen Gynell

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TALK Innovation and Research | Introduced by Nicholas Diakopoulos, Professor, Communication Studies, Northwestern University

Tory Lysik, Media Research Fellow & Computational Journalist, and C.J. Robinson, Research & Reporting Fellow | Tow Center for Digital Journalism
Talk Title: Scraper Factories: Using AI to write fleets of unique scrapers at once

Caleb Okereke, Managing Editor, Minority Africa
Talk Title: Can AI Triage a Pitch? A Case Study in Editorial Evaluation from Minority Africa

Eryn Davis, Data Journalist & Fellow | Columbia Journalism Investigations
Talk Title: DataTalk: A Conversational Agent for Story Generation in Accountability Reporting

Marinanne Aubin Le Quéré, Princeton University, and Michael Krisch, Brown Center for Media Innovation
Talk Title: Mapping the Changing Geography of Local Information: Evidence from North Carolina

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121125-Day 1 TALK Accountability Data Journalism 316

Helen Gynell

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Attila Bátorfy is a data journalist, media scholar, and professor of journalism and information design at the Department of Media and Communication Studies at Eötvös Loránd University Budapest. Before his academic career, he worked as a journalist for nearly fifteen years. He was previously the head of data at Átlátszó, Hungary’s first investigative journalism outlet. In 2018 he founded with Átlátszó the visual journalism project Átló. He has received numerous awards for his journalistic work. He has published several articles on the authoritarian tendencies and transformation of the Hungarian media system and journalism over the past decade.

Master Instructor, ELTE Faculty of Humanities | Lecturer: Institute for the Theory of Art and Media Studies | Lecturer: Department of Media and Communication
MTMT, Google Scholar, attilabatorfy.com, Facebook, Linkedin, BlueSky
Latest publication: The Hungarian Media System: Unequal Worlds
Book: Adatvizualizáció. Bevezetés az adatok grafikus ábrázolásának elméletébe és módszerébe.
TALK TITLE: Data journalism in an illiberal regime

Two decades ago, most evangelists of data journalism proclaimed that an age of facts and reason was coming. We have many reasons to believe that the opposite has happened. While data journalism methods have become increasingly sophisticated and more data has become available, the impact of this type of content has been limited. This is especially true in a country, Hungary, that has had an authoritarian government for a decade and a half. What has worked so far, what has not worked, and what will never work in data journalism in an illiberal country?

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121125-Day 1 Opening Remarks-Keynote Attila Batorfy 215

Helen Gynell

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Robert Simmon, Cartographer + Science Communicator specializing in Visualizing Satellite Imagery
Workshop Title: Data Mapping like a Pro: Raster Maps with command-line tools
Robert Simmon, Cartographer + Science Communicator specializing in Visualizing Satellite Imagery
Workshop Title: Data Mapping like a Pro: Raster Maps with command-line tools

Robert Simmon is a cartographer and science communicator who specializes in visualizing satellite data. He has decades of experience working with remote sensing experts and entrepreneurs, helping share their research and products with the public. Along the way he’s designed some of the most widely viewed imagery of our home planet. His work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, and web sites; including the front page of the New York Times and the cover of National Geographic. He’s also known for creating the first global view of the Earth at Night, crafting the Blue Marble featured on the original Apple iPhone, and writing about best practices for scientific visualization.

WORKSHOP TITLE: Data Mapping like a Pro: Raster Maps with command-line tools

Raster data is a powerful tool for telling stories about both the natural world and human conflicts. Unfortunately, working with this data is often difficult and time consuming. In this workshop you’ll use command-line tools like GDAL and Python to read and manipulate raster data formats, and learn the fundamentals necessary to explore new data on your own. These techniques can help you make better and more innovative maps, faster.

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Rui Barros, Data Journalist, PUBLICO
Workshop Title: AI Agents: License to Do Journalism

Rui Barros is a data journalist at PÚBLICO, Portugal, where he works on data-driven investigations and interactive storytelling. His work includes cross-border investigative projects examining government accountability and political financing across Europe, collaborating with international newsrooms to make complex data accessible to broad
audiences.

Rui teaches data journalism and web development at Universidade Lusófona and leads workshops at conferences across Europe, focusing on emerging approaches that combine traditional investigative rigor with new technical possibilities—from interactive narratives to AI-assisted research workflows. His work has been recognized with Sigma Awards nominations and the Data Journalism Award from the Portuguese Statistical Society.

WORKSHOP TITLE: AI Agents: License to Do Journalism
Learn to build sophisticated AI agents that handle complex investigative research, cross-reference datasets automatically, and fact-check claims in real-time. This hands-on workshop introduces six proven agent architectures—Prompt Chaining, Routing, Parallelization, and Orchestrator-Workers—that solve real newsroom challenges.

Participants will build practical “AI recipes” to extract and verify statistics from documents, cross-reference claims across databases, route breaking news intelligently, and orchestrate fact-checking workflows with human oversight. Each pattern includes working code, ethical considerations, and integration strategies for existing newsroom tools.

No advanced programming required—just curiosity about how AI can augment journalistic judgment and rigor.

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Toll Library, Day Two
10:30 AM PAPER PRESENTATIONS
“A Comparative Computational Analysis of Misinformation and Political Narratives in U.S. Ethnic Media“
Hassan, Naeemul; Oates, Sarah; Li, Wei-Ping; and Flores, Alejandro “Alex”
“Auditing Google’s AI Overview for Local Information Seeking“
Aubin Le Quéré, Marianne
“Tracing Law Enforcement in Lynching Coverage: A Computational Narrative Approach (1835-1950)“
Salama, Mohamed
“Technologists are Journalists Too: Expert Citizen Journalism by Computational Infrastructure Workers“
Hayes, Cassandra and Kee, Kerk F.
“Between Consensus and Ambiguity: Expert Evaluation of LLM Explanations for Misleading Headlines“
Rony, Md Main Uddin and Hassan, Naeemul
“Small Language Models for Fake News Detection: A Green AI Approach“
Prompol, Kanatip; Jitkajornwanich, Kulsawasd
“Documenting the depictions of victimhood US/UK media coverage of Gaza“
Dorr, Timothy and Howland, Baird
“Examining Public Attitudes Toward Generative AI for News in Four Nations“
Mitova, Eliza
“Beyond Red and Blue in Crisis Communication: How Computational Mapping Reveals Gun Control News Coverage of Mass Shootings“
Kraishan, Obada; Jitkajornwanich, Kulsawasd; Kee, Kerk F.
“Artificial Intelligence (AI) as an Accelerative Continuation, Not a Revolution, in Infographic Design“
Piekarski, Rafal

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Helen Gynell

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Alyssa Fowers, Graphics Reporter | The Washington Post
Lightning Talk Title: How to build a dataset (a silly example for a serious topic)

Alyssa Fowers is a graphics and data reporter at The Washington Post who covers the economy and (on a good day) dogs. Before joining The Post in 2020, she studied at the University of Miami’s Interactive Media program.

LIGHTNING TALK TITLE: How to build a dataset (a silly example for a serious topic)

When your dataset doesn’t exist—or exists in fragments across many different sources—sometimes you have to build it yourself. This talk uses the unofficial holiday dataset from The Washington Post’s Department of Data as a humorous example to help think through the issues inherent to building any dataset: where the information comes from, whether to err on the side of over- or under-inclusion, how to evaluate your sources, how to automate (ish) deduplication, when to make judgment calls, how to build a rating scale, and more. By the end of the talk, the audience will understand how we know that the least-real holiday during C+J is the Festival of Unmentionable Thoughts, and how to apply that knowledge in more-substantive settings.

December 11, 2025 | Newman Alumni Center, University of Miami

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Computation + Journalism Symposium Day One Workshop 1: Andres Snitcofsky "Embodying Data—Storytelling Under Autocracy" | University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL | December 11+12, Newman Alumni Center, 6200 San Amaro Drive | Conference Host: Alberto Cairo, PhD

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