Computation + Journalism Symposium 2025 12/11+12

Authoritarian movements are on the rise worldwide. This has led to the degradation or outright destruction of trustworthy data, and to increasingly hostile environments where attacks on knowledge-creation and -dissemination professions and institutions—journalism and academia included—are becoming everyday news.

The Computation + Journalism Symposium (C+J) will cast light on this challenge, aiming to become a forum to discuss how to face it.

Join us for two days of talks, workshops, round table sessions, and paper presentations. We are open to submissions not related to this year’s theme (Data Journalism Under Autocracy) and, more generally, about any topic at the intersection of computation and journalism. C+J is a space for anyone working at, or curious about, the intersections of computation and journalism.

Keynote Speaker | Attila Bátorfy

Attila Bátorfy is a data journalist, media scholar, and professor of journalism and information design at the Department of Media and Communication Studies at Eötvös Loránd University Budapest. Before his academic career, he worked as a journalist for nearly fifteen years. He was previously the head of data at Átlátszó, Hungary’s first investigative journalism outlet. In 2018 he founded with Átlátszó the visual journalism project Átló. He has received numerous awards for his journalistic work. He has published several articles on the authoritarian tendencies and transformation of the Hungarian media system and journalism over the past decade.

Thursday and Friday, December 11+ 12, 2025
$150 per person | $30 Students • TICKETS include BOTH DAYS

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Location
University of Miami Newman Alumni Center (Multipurpose Room)
6200 San Amaro Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146 | Map + Directions
(Info. on complimentary parking forthcoming)

Call for Submissions!

If you have interesting and exciting thoughts or research about Generative AI, algorithmic accountability, data journalism education, accessibility, or any other relevant topic, we want to hear from you! We welcome professionals and scholars from a wide variety of domains: Practicing journalists, independent data storytellers, computational social scientists, data artists, digital humanities scholars, cartographers, and others. The deadline for submissions is September 7, 2025. The registration fee for all accepted speakers and panelists will be waived, and we offer a stipend of $300 to help offset travel expenses.

Possible Topics

• “Behind the Scenes” on novel digital storytelling in news settings
• Case studies of new collaborations between journalists and computer scientists
• Introductions to tools and techniques that support fresh approaches to reporting and storytelling
• Algorithmic Auditing
• Novel Election Coverage
• AI in the Newsroom
• Data Journalism Education
• Automated Fact Checking
• Open-Source Investigations
• Monitoring News for Human Rights Violations
• New Digital Storytelling Tools and Techniques
• Data Accessibility
• Public Data Rescue
• Techniques for Reinforcing Trust, or
• Other Emerging or Relevant Topics

The deadline for submissions is September 7, 2025.

For more information contact Prof. Alberto Cairo a.cairo@miami.edu.

Types of Submissions

►Contributed Workshop

You are invited to propose a contributed workshop with an abstract of at most 250 words (in addition, please submit keywords). These should be hands-on training relevant to journalists or researchers. Please submit via the online form.

►Contributed Talk

You are invited to propose a contributed talk with an abstract of at most 250 words (in addition, please submit keywords). These should be separate talks that will be organized into sessions by the Program Committee and likely run in parallel at the event. Please submit via the online form.

►Contributed Session

You are invited to propose a broader contributed session made up of three to four individual speakers. Each speaker should provide an abstract of at most 250 words, and the session organizer should submit a similar abstract summarizing the topic the session will focus on (please submit as a single document | in addition, include keywords). Please submit via the online form.

►Short Paper

You are invited to submit a paper for review, up to five pages in length (in addition, please submit keywords). These will be reviewed for inclusion and divided into sessions given a special place in the program. Please submit via the online form.

Sponsorship Opportunites

Keynote • Reception • Workshop • Travel | Click through to the C+J website for more details.

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If you need more info. or for general inquiries about the C+J 2025, contact the Conference Chair, Prof. Alberto Cairo a.cairo@miami.edu