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Christina Andreasen serves as Samantha Appleton is a Benny Becker is a public radio Anica Butler is the deputy Myroslava Gongadze is the Kaeti Hinck is an editor at The Mary Ellen Klas is the capital Uli Köppen is head of data the editor of digital development photographer who strives to capture reporter for the Ohio Valley ReSource editor of The Boston Globe’s news Ukrainian service chief and a TV Washington Post, where she leads bureau chief for the Miami Herald journalism at the German public and social media at Berlingske, the subtle moments that make up and WMMT/Appalshop, in the heart department and has been part of anchor at Voice of America. Prior to a team of visual journalists and in Tallahassee, Florida, where she broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk Denmark’s oldest daily. She manages the complicated components of of the Appalachian coalfields. His the newsroom’s digital reinvention. joining VOA in 2004, she worked developers. She has been involved covers government and politics (ARD). She oversees a team of the first-ever editorial development historically significant news stories. reporting focuses on efforts to She was an editor on the Spotlight as a journalist, editor and producer with some of the Post’s most and focuses on enterprise and journalists, coders and designers team there, a group that works with She has covered the conflicts in Iraq, revitalize the economy, obstacles to series “The Desperate and the Dead,” in Ukraine and the United States ambitious projects, including accountability reporting. She has specializing in investigative data new digital storytelling formats and Afghanistan and Lebanon, social economic transition and the human about the failed mental health care for several media outlets including investigations about unsolved uncovered deception by the stories, interactive storytelling and platforms. She previously was the issues in Africa and immigration in impact of a century of extraction. system in Massachusetts, and was RFE/RL, Internews and IREX. Her murders, segregation in America, utility industry, misuse of political experimentation with new research editorial lead in creating ALT.dk, the the U.S., and her work has been Becker grew up in West Virginia and on the team that won a 2014 Pulitzer work has been published in The drug industry corruption and police accounts, cronyism in the governor’s methods such as bots and machine largest network of lifestyle websites published in The New Yorker, Time, worked as a radio producer in Rhode Prize for coverage of the Boston Wall Street Journal, The Washington shootings. Hinck previously worked office and administrative neglect of learning. She is a founding member for women in Denmark, consisting of The New York Times and elsewhere. Island and Israel before joining Marathon bombings. Previously, Times and The Journal of Democracy. as design director at the Institute the state’s most fragile populations. of butterland, a group dedicated eight magazine brands at Egmont From 2009-2011, she was a White WMMT. One of three inaugural Butler worked at The Baltimore Sun, Gongadze is an internationally for Nonprofit News and has explored She has shared her stories on NPR, to slow journalism whose projects Publishing. Andreasen serves on the House photographer for the Obama Abrams Nieman Fellows for Local the Los Angeles Times and The recognized advocate for freedom of the power of visual communication, MSNBC, CNN and Fox News. Klas is include reporting done with victims board of the Danish Online News administration. She is studying the Investigative Journalism, he is Hartford Courant. She is studying the press and the safety of reporters. technology and design in newsrooms. studying the relationship between of Turkey’s clampdown on press Association. She is studying how concept of otherness in the American researching and will do fieldwork on change management and design She is studying how propaganda is She is researching how neuroscience declining journalism resources freedom. She is studying how legacy media can successfully develop psyche, from slavery to war, and strategies for funding infrastructure thinking to learn how newsroom disseminated through new media and psychology can inform the and corruption in state and local coding and automation can improve digital journalism by incorporating how it affects news reporting. in rural communities facing the culture can become more dynamic. channels, specifically in light of the digital news ecosystem and reshape government, and what happens journalism by enabling analysis of new skill sets in newsrooms. collapse of an extractive economy. Russian information warfare against approaches to product design, visual to government integrity when algorithms and machine bias within the West. journalism and trust. watchdog reporting declines. interdisciplinary newsrooms.