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Linguicide - a map of language loss

A first of its kind map using language datasets to show language endangerment alongside official recognition and linguistic documentation.

Analysing data from the best journalism event on the planet - Perugia’s International Journalism Festival.

Charlie Beckett at IJF: 17 years of shifting journalism debates

International Journalism Festival, Perugia — 2009–2026

20+
panels
17
years
2009
first appearance
2022
generative AI era began
Panels per year — by topic category
Generative AI Algorithms & automation Other journalism topics
2009
1
2009
  • Networked journalism – permeable, interactive, 24/7, multi-platform
2012
4
2012
  • The new civic journalism
  • Kony2012: 100 million views online
  • After phone-hacking: cleaning up journalism
  • The future of news: moderation & participation
2013
2
2013
  • How women are presented by the media
  • Hyperlocal news
2016
3
2016
  • Journalism after Snowden
  • What constructive journalism is and why we need it
  • The death of journalistic objectivity
2017
4
2017
  • Improving news literacy through collaboration
  • Journalism after Snowden: future of the free press
  • Stop worrying about fake news. What comes next will be much worse
  • In defence of empathy
2018
2
2018
  • Social theory and the news
  • Who needs trust?
2019
2
2019
  • Nationwide collaborations on local investigative reporting
  • Pitfalls of over-reacting to populism
2020
3
2020
  • Automating the news: how algorithms are rewriting the media
  • What skills will be needed in the AI-powered newsroom?
  • Tortoise ThinkIn: how can we hold algorithms to account?
2022
2
2022
  • Managing a newsroom in the AI-powered future
  • Should media organizations accept funding from Google and Meta?
2023
3
2023
  • Could AI give technology giants more control over the news?
  • AI journalism: the next generation?
  • What happens to journalism now that Twitter is dying?
2024
2
2024
  • AI showcase
  • AI and journalism: what does it take to get it right?
2025
2
2025
  • After the hype: what are the key trends in journalism and AI?
  • Journalism in the age of AI: agents, answers and accuracy
2026
2
2026
  • When AI becomes the product
  • Mistakes, setbacks and unfulfilled expectations: an honest f*ck-up session
Recurring themes across 17 years
Generative AI Algorithms & automation Trust & objectivity News literacy Platform power Social media & news Investigative collaboration Disinformation / fake news Surveillance & press freedom Constructive journalism Gender in media Hyperlocal news Networked journalism

Charlie Beckett is founding director of Polis at LSE, where he leads JournalismAI. His IJF panels track journalism's biggest fault lines — from networked journalism optimism in 2009, through the platform wars and algorithmic accountability, to the generative AI transformation now reshaping newsrooms worldwide.

IN PROGRESS (contains errors). Unofficial data explorer compiled from public IJF programmes. Not affiliated with the International Journalism Festival.