Early bird deadline + new sessions & workshops: Hacks/Hackers AI x Journalism Summit (May 7–8)

By Nevin Thompson

February 15th is the early bird ticket deadline for the first-ever Hacks/Hackers AI x Journalism Summit, May 7–8. At the summit, reporters, editors, product managers and technologists will spend two days gaining practical skills and insights to fundamentally rethink what a news product can be in the AI era and thrive in the new media landscape.

We are continually updating the summit program (so be sure to check back!) with a wide variety of practical hands-on workshops, real-world case studies and collaborative talks, including:

• Designing AI for Journalism: Understanding the Tech, Applying the Thinking
• AI for Local Impact: Lessons from The Texas Tribune
• How to Become a Better Manager with AI (Presented by Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY)
• Digital Democracy at CalMatters: Covering State Legislatures With the Help of AI

Summit sessions are all aimed at demonstrating how participants can use AI to strengthen reporting, streamline workflows, create more impactful stories and build innovative news products.

Check out the summit program, get early bird tickets >>

A quick update, with more to come: AI + Local News Hackathon at the University of Minnesota

In collaboration with the Minnesota Journalism Center, we just finished a hackathon?that assembled journalists, technologists and community members from across Minnesota to spend a day and a half developing, designing and prototyping tools to build better local news coverage. We're putting together a wrap-up article about the hackathon, but, in the meantime, read some takeaways and updates from hackathon participants Nick Capaldini and Fabian Andrade, Alex Mahadevan, a judge at the hackathon, and Benjamin Toff, a professor at University of Minnesota and director of the Minnesota Journalism Center, which helped organize the event.

Join us at SXSW 2025: AI x Journalism House (March 10–11)

Hacks/Hackers returns to SXSW! In partnership with Online News Association, and venue hosts the Texas Tribune, Hacks/Hackers is once again convening AI x Journalism House at SXSW.

More details to come, but be sure to join us for two days of workshops, speakers and networking alongside the SXSW conference to dive deeper into how artificial intelligence is changing how we create and distribute news and information.

Register now (and submit your own talk proposal!) >>

Journalism + AI links

• Journalists cautiously optimistic about the effect of AI on the profession, new report finds (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
• Journalism needs better representation to counter AI (Brookings)
• What DeepSeek may mean for the future of journalism and generative AI (Reuters Institute)
• How generative AI is transforming crisis communications (University of North Carolina)

More upcoming events

• Feb 14–16, San Francisco, US, WikiCredCon
• Feb 24–27, Taipei, Taiwan, RightsCon
• Feb 27–28, Online, Institute for Independent Journalists Conference?
• Mar 6–9, Minneapolis, US, NICAR
• Mar 27-28, Austin, US, International Symposium on Online Journalism
• Apr 9–13, Perugia, Italy, International Journalism Festival
• May 7–8, Baltimore, US, Hacks/Hackers AI x Journalism Summit

Journalism jobs

• (US) TechCrunch, Senior AI Reporter
• (US) University of Florida, Data Journalism Lecturer
• (US) University of California Berkeley, Special Programs Lecturer
• (US) MarketWatch, Tech Reporter
• (US) Wall Street Journal, Tech and Media Editor
• (US) MinnPost, Data Journalist
• (US) MLK50, Visual Storyteller
• (US) Documented, Product Manager
• (US) Lenfest Institute, Head of Development and Donor Relations
• (US) South Florida Biz Journal, Data Reporter
• (UK) Vogue Business, Tech Editor