The landmark journalism conference is finally back. As we gear up for the International Journalism Festival, here are 30 talks to fit into your tightly packed schedule
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The landmark International Journalism Festival is finally back next week after previous events being cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The speakers and panels are all decided. Now it is just the question of how you to make the most of the four days of talks. Never fear, Journalism.co.uk has you covered.
These are the ten big topics the conference will cover with our top three panel picks in each category to whet your appetite. We have only selected the talks in English which kick off from 7 April. All times are in CET. All the sessions are live-streamed and will be available for viewing during the festival on their website's homepage.
Whether you'll be soaking up the sun along with those nuggets of industry wisdom, or engaging in a sofa-bound online binge this is our best of Perugia rundown for your diaries.
When: 8 April, 9 am - 10 am
Who: Eliza Anyangwe (CNN), Alastair Gee (Guardian US), Lola Huete Machado (El País), Tracy Mcveigh (The Guardian)
When: 8 April, 10:30 am - 11:30 am
Who: Veronika Munk (Telex), Jacqui Park (IPI), Daryna Shevchenko (Kyiv Independent), Siddarth Varadarajan (The Wire)
When: 8 April, 2 pm - 3 pm
Who: Federica Cherubini (RISJ), Renée Kaplan (Financial Times), Rosalia Lloret (elDiario.es), Siddarth Varadarajan (The Wire)
When: 7 April, 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Who: Craig Silverman (ProPublica)
When: 7 April, 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Who: Natalia Antelava (Coda Story), Jane Lytvynenko (Shorenstein Center), Peter Pomerantsec (Agora Institute)
When: 8 April, 2 pm - 3 pm
Who: Katy Daigle (Reuters), Chris Michael (Guardian Seascape), Dayana Sarkisova (The Washington Post), Adam Vaughan (The New Scientist)
When: 7 April, 12 pm - 1 pm
Who: Benjamin Strick (Centre for Information Resilience)
When: 8 April, 5 pm - 6 pm
Who: Marianna Bruschi (GEDI Gruppo Editoriale), Candice Fortman (Outlier Media), Anita Li (The Other Wave), Tassos Morfis (AthensLive)
When: 9 April, 12 pm - 1 pm
Who: Daniel Howdon (Lighthouse Reports), Ross Higgins, Annique Mossou, Logan Williams (all Bellingcat)
When: 7 April, 9 am - 10 am
Who: Francesca Donner (Quartz), Lisa Kassenaar (writer and editor), Inga Thordar (media executive), Anette Young (France 24)
When: 8 April, 5 pm - 6 pm 8/4/22
Who: Deborah Copaken (journalist and author), Kate O’Brian (Scripps Network), Anette Young (France 24)
When: 9 April, 9 am - 10 am
Who: Joseph Harker (The Guardian), Diane Kemp (Birmingham City University), Marcus Ryder (Sir Lenny Henry centre for Media Diversity), Eva Simpson (The Daily Mirror)
When: 7 April, 9 am - 10 am
Who: Julia Angwin (The Markup), Tom Cardoso (The Globe and Mail), Dhruv Mehrotra (Reveal), Aaron Sankin (The Markup)
When: 7 April, 10:30 am - 11:30 am
Who: Mattia Peretti (JournalismAI), Aimee Rinehart (Associated Press)
When: 10:30 am - 11:30 am 9/4/22
Who: Clayton Aldern (Grist), Edward Boyda (Earthrise Media), Boyoung Lim (Pulitzer Center), Hyury Potter (Rainforest investigations Network), Lucia Wallinchus (Eye on Ohio)
When: 7 April, 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Who: Caroline Scott (Google News Lab)
When: 8 April, 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Who: Jane Barrett (Reuters), Fergus Bell (Fathm), Ezra Eeman (Mediahuis), Justyna Kurczabinska (EBU)
When: 8 April, 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Who: Yasmina Al-Gannabi, Sebastian Katthover and Erika Marzano (all Duetsche Welle)
When: 7 April, 10:30 am - 11:30 am
Who: Matt Cooke (Google), Lucy Kung (RISJ), Francois Nel (UCLAN), Anita Zielina (CUNY)
When: 7 April, 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Who: Renée Kaplan (Financial Times), Robin Kwong (Wall Street Journal), Florence Martin-Kessler (Live Magazine), Chris Moran (Guardian)
When: 9 April, 10:30 am - 11:30 am
Who: Antonia Goetsche (Harvard Business Manager), Astrid Maier (XING), Niddal Salah-Eldin (FreeTech Academy), Anita Zielina (CUNY)
When: 7 April, 3:30 pm - 4:30pm
Who: Jane Barrett (Reuters), Maike Jungjohann (RTL News), Nic Newman (RISJ), Angela Pacienza (The Globa and Mail)
When: 8 April, 12 pm - 1 pm
Who: Amira Al-Sharif (photojournalist), Anthony Feinstein (University of Toronto), Clothilde Redfern (Rory Peck Trust), Sanne Terlingen (Argos VRPO)
When: 8 April, 5 pm - 6 pm
Who: Eliza Anyangwe (CNN), John Crowley and Hannah Storm (Headlines Network), Sarah ward-Lilley (executive coach)
When: 7 April, 12 pm - 1 pm
Who: Harlo Holmes (Freedom of the Press Foundation), Viktorya Vilk (PEN America)
When: 9 April, 5 pm - 6 pm
Who: Rana Ayyub (Washington Post), Patricia Campos Mello (Folha de Sao Paulo), Julie Posetti (ICFJ), Marianna Spring (BBC)
When: 9 April, 12 pm - 1 pm
Who: Karen Mahabir (Associated Press), Elodie Vialle (Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society), Viktorya Vilk (PEN America)
When: 8 April, 10:30 am - 11:30 am
Who: Ros Atkins (BBC), Emily Bell (Tow Centre for Digital Journalism), Errin Haines (The 19th), Vivian Shiller (Aspen Institute)
When: 9 April, 12 pm - 1 pm
Who: Charlie Beckett (London School of Economics), Emily Bell (Tow Centre for Digital Journalism), Matthew Ingram (Columbia Journalism Review)
When: 9 April, 2 pm - 3 pm
Who: James Ball (Bureau of Investigative Journalism), Jeff Jarvis (CUNY), Kyle Pope Columbia Journalism Review), Julie Posetti (ICFJ)
