Presentation at the 2025 Future of Journalism conference in Cardiff

This fall I attended the Future of Journalism conference in Cardiff for the first time, and I left feeling inspired. Two days packed with innovative research and deep conversations about the state of journalism identity in the new era of information abundance and threat.

I presented results from my summer project on open data management systems created by five global hubs of cross-border journalism collaborations. In this paper I argue that journalism actors are emerging as autonomous intermediaries of open data, operating independently yet integrally within the OSINV/OSINT ecosystem. This shift from news production to data brokers signals a novel practice in epistemic culture in journalism with important implications for the political economy of global information. I appreciate people who provided me with constructive feedback as I workshop and refine this idea.
I am already looking forward to a comeback in two years.