See you in Los Angeles on February 7 and 8, 2025!
The inaugural Open Source Journalism Conference is coming up soon, and our lineup of speakers is exceptional, as is the training track program.
Given the devastating fires, some people have asked if we still plan to hold the conference. Yes, we do! The fires are miles away from USC, the conference site. By the time the conference starts, the fires should be entirely extinguished.
Registration for the inaugural Open Source Journalism Conference is now closed, but our goal is to convene the conference annually.
Open source journalism has made enormous strides and contributed to multiple Pulitzer Prizes, yet there has been no major conference solely dedicated to convening journalists, engineers, architects, researchers, and other contributors to share best practices, debate ethical issues, build relationships, and advance a field with enormous potential for uncovering vital facts about the world.
Many news organizations desperately want to dive into this critical form of reporting but lack the technical know-how. In response, this conference is for seasoned experts and raw novices. The conference will offer a training track so that newbie open source journalists can return to their newsrooms with skills they can apply right away.
For experts, there are talks and debates by some of the leading practitioners in the field.
A key theme will be new frontiers for open source journalism, in which speakers explore areas where open source fact finding has been underutilized but could be deployed for incredible impact.
The inaugural Open Source Journalism Conference is co-hosted by the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism and the Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley. We are grateful to our lead sponsor, the Google News Initiative, and our co-sponsors CNN, the Ken and Jackie Broad Family Fund, Crankstart, the Western Wind Foundation, and the Scripps Howard Fund.
Please write to us at opensourceconference2025@gmail.com anytime with questions, comments, or concerns.
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