We are editing the new Routledge Handbook of Open Source Investigations! 🎉 For this call for papers, we welcome theoretical and empirical contributions, including case-based studies. Deadline for abstracts (500 words): August 31, 2026 See more info here: ptml.sjmc.wisc.edu/2026/06/25/c...

CfP: The Routledge Handbook of Open Source Investigations

Call for Papers The Routledge Handbook of Open Source Investigations Open source investigations (OSINV) leverage the widespread availability of natively digital or digitized data to build narratives a...

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New book: Journalism in the Age of AI: From Acceleration to Reimagination (Polity), with Rodrigo Zamith and @tomasdodds.bsky.social. Free and open access on Aug. 3 — anyone can read it or assign it. The opening chapter is yours now → journalismandai.com

Journalism in the Age of AI: From Acceleration to Reimagination

Drawing on questions of creativity, democratic accountability, platform power, and human agency, this book offers a toolkit for reimagining journalism not just as an industry in the face of artificial...

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Thankful to the @uwmadisonls.bsky.social for featuring the Public Tech Media Lab in their latest newsletter, and to Margaret Shreiner for writing this incredible article. Learn more about everything that we are doing at the Lab and our plans for the future here: ls.wisc.edu/news/at-the-...

At the Intersection of Journalism and AI

Tomás Dodds   is leading the new Public Tech Media Lab, which aims to be a resource for journalists hoping to be deliberate about how to ethically use new…

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I spoke with Nigel van Schaik from the Stimuleringsfonds voor de Journalistiek about the hype around AI in journalism and the special issue we recently published in @digitaljournalism.bsky.social. Check it out here: www.svdj.nl/nieuws/hoe-j...

Hoe journalisten de hype rond AI maken, bevragen én vrezen

Journalisten laten zich makkelijk meeslepen in nieuwe technologische hypes, omdat ze bang zijn om achter te blijven en de techsector te vriend willen houden. Daardoor vergeten ze weleens dat de manier...

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If you missed it, check out Matthew Lawrence's (@cen4infores.bsky.social) talk for the Public Tech Media Lab. This talk delves into the disparities that become apparent when different kinds of #OSINT practices are viewed through the lens of their practitioners. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXou...

OSINT: Disparity and Consensus by Matthew Lawrence

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Applications are now open for the @aejmc-icd.bsky.social Teaching Award 🏆 I am coordinating this year's award, which recognizes excellence, innovation, and effective approaches to teaching international communication and journalism studies. ℹ️ More info here: community.aejmc.org/internationa...

Journalisten laten zich makkelijk meeslepen in nieuwe technologie. Daardoor vergeten ze weleens dat ze zelf invloed hebben op de manier waarop die technologie zich ontwikkelt. @tomasdodds.bsky.social: 'De techsector is heel goed in het verkopen van verhalen aan journalisten.'

Hoe journalisten de hype rond AI maken, bevragen én vrezen

Journalisten laten zich makkelijk meeslepen in nieuwe technologische hypes, omdat ze bang zijn om achter te blijven en de techsector te vriend willen houden. Daardoor vergeten ze weleens dat de manier...

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🚨 New book announcement! For two decades, journalists have been running on a hamster wheel — producing more, faster, with less. AI is speeding that wheel up. But it doesn't have to. (1/x)

📅 Last week for submissions to the Natali Helberger award from the Public Tech Media Lab at @uwmadison.bsky.social, founded by our former colleague @tomasdodds.bsky.social! 👉 For PhD students working on public interest tech in journalism, read more on applying: ptml.sjmc.wisc.edu/natali-helbe...

Natali Helberger Award

The Natali Helberger Award recognizes doctoral students who have conducted research through interdisciplinary collaboration that advances a Public Interest Technology (PIT) perspective in…

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CBS News Radio (1927-2026). The last of America's three original, national radio networks will shutter after nearly a century. The network that defined broadcast news and employed truth-tellers like Murrow is silenced by Bari Weiss. How appropriate. deadline.com/2026/03/cbs-... #CBSNews

CBS News Radio To Shutter Amid News Division Cuts

The closure of CBS News Radio ends nearly 100 years of radio programming from CBS.

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“.. Trump’s foreign policy strategy will leave the United States “poorer, less secure, and less influential than it has been for most living Americans’ lifetimes,” writes Stephen Walt. @foreignaffairs.com www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

🚨 New paper out! Here’s the Introduction to our Special Issue on AI Hype, co‑edited with Naomi Mine, @natalihelberger.bsky.social, @ndiakopoulos.bsky.social & @teachguz.bsky.social, on how AI hype shapes journalism’s norms, values, and labor politics. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

AI Hype in Journalism: Visibility, Power, and the Politics of Media Narratives

Hype is a phenomenon that emerges from a set of practices rooted in the norms and narratives not only of journalism but of digital media and its algorithmic infrastructure more broadly, in the soci...

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If you missed it live, Georgia Edwards' (WITNESS) talk for the Public Tech Media Lab is now online. Georgia argues that the institutionalisation of #OSINT in journalism is also an opportunity to develop community-based verification in Global Majority newsrooms. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFxL...

On the Unintended Consequences of the Institutionalisation of OSINV with Georgia Edwards

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The Public Tech Media Lab & @tomasdodds.bsky.social will host a "Digital Investigations Bootcamp" on campus in May 2026. Come learn from expert open source investigation (OSINV) trainers how to verify digital evidence & uncover misinformation. More info: ptml.sjmc.wisc.edu/2026/02/05/r...

Here's a timely CFP from @tomasdodds.bsky.social and the Public Tech Media Lab at UW-Madison for a special issue of @JournalismPractice. The deadline for extended abstracts is April 1, 2026.

CfP Journalism Practice: Journalism, Platforms, and Public Interest Technologies

Special Issue Editor(s) Tomas Dodds, University of Wisconsin-Madison doddsrojas@wisc.edu Jasmine McNealy, University of Florida jmcnealy@jou.ufl.edu Mona Sloane, University of Virginia mona.sloane@vir...

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What's ahead for journalism in 2026? Based on my ongoing research (and forthcoming book!) on AI and journalism with Rodrigo Zamith and @tomasdodds.bsky.social, I explain why AI is a critical fork-in-the-road moment for journalism's future: www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/ai-b...

AI breaks the hamster wheel of journalism

"The breaking of the hamster wheel's fundamental premise — that humans must run it — creates space for reimagining what journalism <em>could be</em> if not organized around acceleration as its governi...

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Excited to share our latest article in Journalism Practice: “Journalists ‘Attagged’: The @-tag as a Bonding Tool for ‘Supercharged Critical Publics’” Led by @Marloes Geboers, and /w @tomasdodds.bsky.social, Eirliani A Rahman and myself — published open access: doi.org/10.1080/1751...

A new commentary for our SI on AI hype in @digitaljournalism.bsky.social is out! ✨ Seth Lewis, Rodrigo Zamith, and Jon B. Bunquin argue that hype warrants closer attention, not just as a media trend, but as a window into deeper social and institutional dynamics. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🗞️ My conversation with Luciano Jiménez on the impact of AI on fake news and elections was published today in La Seguna! Read the full interview in Spanish below ⤵️

Asst prof @tomasdodds.bsky.social spoke to @isthmusmadison.bsky.social about his new Public Tech Media Lab, which aims to teach journalists how to use open source technologies and make newsrooms less dependent on big tech companies that have their own private interests. isthmus.com/opinion/from...

Journalism in the age of AI

A new UW-Madison lab aims to help newsrooms develop in-house artificial intelligence tools that reflect their own values and needs.

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We're excited to welcome new @uwsjmc.bsky.social faculty @tomasdodds.bsky.social to the Center as an affiliate. Dodds examines how new technologies shape newsroom practices, journalistic authority and the ways reporters understand their profession. Welcome,Tomás! journalism.wisc.edu/news/new-fac...

New Faculty Q&A with Assistant Professor Tomás Dodds

Journalist and researcher Dr. Tomás Dodds joins the School of Journalism and Mass Communication as an assistant professor.

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I did a small Q&A with my new colleagues at the UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication about what students can expect to learn in my classes, why I chose to come to Madison, and what I was doing for four weeks in Tenerife! Check it out here ⤵️ journalism.wisc.edu/news/new-fac...

New Faculty Q&A with Assistant Professor Tomás Dodds

Journalist and researcher Dr. Tomás Dodds joins the School of Journalism and Mass Communication as an assistant professor.

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SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS! The deadline for this CfP is fast coming up! Submit your abstract to “Institutionalizing Open-Source Investigations in #Journalism” by Sep 1, guest edited by @sethclewis.bsky.social, @tomasdodds.bsky.social, Alexa Koenig, Rodrigo Zamith, & @davidcheruiyot.bsky.social.

Eleven academics met today to discuss "The AI turn in journalism: Disruption, adaptation, and democratic futures" recent essay during our first News, Technology, and Society Network reading group. Thanks to @dbossio.bsky.social for facilitating and to all from RMIT and beyond who attended.

This was fun! Thanks to everyone who joined us.

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How is #AI reshaping journalism research, education, and practice? Join me, Seth Lewis, @natalihelberger.bsky.social, and @nickmattis.bsky.social to chat about the challenges, the hype, and the future of the field. 📆 June 2nd, 16:00 (CET). 📍 SPUI25 (or stream online). ➡️ spui25.nl/programma/th...

The introduction to our SI on bridging the research-practice gap in journalism has now been published! You can read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... It was a pleasure to co-edit this special issue with @annaschjoett.bsky.social, @nadjaschaetz.bsky.social, and @claudiamellado.bsky.social

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Excited about my first public lecture and the trip to Leiden next week as part of our research exchange with @agdorst.bsky.social @tomasdodds.bsky.social @karakanta.bsky.social

SPECIAL ISSUE CfP! Submit abstracts to our Special Issue on "Institutionalizing Open-Source Investigations in Journalism", edited by @sethclewis.bsky.social, @tomasdodds.bsky.social, Alexa Koenig, @rodzam.bsky.social & @davidcheruiyot.bsky.social 🗓️Sep 1, 2025 ➡️Info: drive.google.com/file/d/1R9T8...

How is #AI reshaping journalism research, education, and practice? Join me, Seth Lewis, @natalihelberger.bsky.social, and @nickmattis.bsky.social to chat about the challenges, the hype, and the future of the field. 📆 June 2nd, 16:00 (CET). 📍 SPUI25 (or stream online). ➡️ spui25.nl/programma/th...

The Future of Journalism (Studies) in the Age of AI

This panel examines the range of approaches currently used in journalism studies to analyze AI and news. It aims to identify which approaches are proving most productive, which may be less useful, and...

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🚨 New publication out now in Journalism! The AI turn in journalism forces us to rethink journalism’s identity and its relationship with different stakeholders. 🔗 Read the full piece here (open access 🔓): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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