Conferences and study weeks are fantastic opportunities to get the latest updates on the industry and network with your peers
Journalists are busy, so we did the legwork for you and picked some of the best media events taking place in 2024 and 2025. Hopefully, this will help you plan your agenda.
We will update this piece regularly - let us know if you hear about an event that should be featured.
11 October: 2024 News Product Alliance Summit | Online
This year’s Summit theme Tech & Trust will bring us together to focus on how News Product Leaders are solving journalism's toughest challenges with audience, tech, and business expertise.
The NPA Summit is an interactive conference, where everyone who attends actively participates throughout the event. It includes hands-on sessions and activities like master classes, global discussions, social chats, and more.
15 October: UK Conference of Science Journalists 2024 | London, UK
The programme will include artificial intelligence fears and tools, effective strategies to increase diversity among journalists, sources and stories, the future of science journalism, the reconstruction of the science media industry, writing articles and books, pitching, and meeting the editors.
17 - 18 October: Reinventing Media Business Summit | Riga, Latvia
This is a two-day media business event in the heart of Riga that serves as a meeting space for media professionals — managers, innovators, digital experts as well as editors and content writers. The aim of the forum is to bring the media business community together to share, create, and collaborate. Here, we will exchange the latest professional knowledge that will help discover hidden opportunities in the ever-changing media business world.
18-19 October: Climate Arena 2024 | Bologna, Italy
The Climate Arena Conference unites journalists and scientists from across Europe to collaborate in investigating the climate crisis. Built on the model of Dataharvest, Climate Arena is a European hands-on, working conference, focused on sharing tools and methods, datasets, insights, and planting the seeds of collaborations, creating the space for building connections and setting up new cross-border projects.
4 - 7 November: MX3 Converge | London, UK
This immersive experience offers a dynamic blend of thought-provoking stage conversations, hands-on demos, and invaluable networking opportunities. Each day will dive deep into a specific theme, allowing you to customise your experience.
14 - 15 November 2024: #CIJLOGAN Symposium 2024: Source! | London, UK
The CIJ, in partnership with Freedom of the Press Foundation in New York, Disclose in Paris, Reporters United in Athens, The Public Source in Beirut and Declassified in London, will bring you talks and presentations that tackle the most pressing issues facing us all – how best to protect sources and whistleblowers, to deal with government harassment and gagging orders and to make the most of exciting new investigative tools and methods.
21 - 23 November: One World Media and POPLab Global Reporting Summit | London • Mexico City • Online
By bringing together journalists, filmmakers, grassroot organisations, university students and policy experts to take part in a rich combination of panel discussions and workshops, the event will explore the opportunities and ideas that can make a difference. It will discuss how to ethically report on the climate crisis, and how storytelling can be used to influence policymakers and leaders.
22 November: PPA Independent Publisher Conference | London, UK
In this half-day event, experts will address collective challenges and deep dive into key areas of opportunity – equipping delegates with the tools and knowledge to thrive in 2024 and beyond. As well as practical presentations and strategy-focused panel sessions, there will be ample opportunity to convene with industry peers across a series of issue-based roundtables.
27 November: Newsrewired | London, UK
Join the Journalism.co.uk team for our 34th flagship journalism conference. We will cover topics like reinventing the advertising model with first-party cookies, revenue growth hacks, social video, dealing with GenAI engines that use your content, adapting SEO strategies to the AI era, mental health in the newsroom, and much more.
29 November: Prague Media Point | Prague, Czech Republic
Prague Media Point’s mission is to foster the media’s work for the public good by convening solution-oriented expert gatherings that bring together unique, regional perspectives and provide lasting networking experiences.
2025
19 - 23 May: INMA’s World Congress of News Media | New York, USA
The 95th Annual INMA World Congress of News Media returns to New York for a dynamic exploration of the rapidly evolving media landscape. In an era defined by transformation, the INMA conference theme “The New Economy of News Media” captures the essence of our discussions. We will explore the evolving power structures, information ecosystems, competitive landscapes, alliances, processes, and products that are reshaping the media industry.
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