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10:00am EDT

AI doom or boom? Covering how AI disrupts and advances business

Saturday May 9, 2026 10:00am - 10:45am EDT

AI is seeping into every industry. Reporters share how they're holding AI tools accountable, covering tech companies, and how AI is changing every field of work. This panel showcases how to cover predictive and generative AI tools built by some of the largest technology companies in the world, as well as their impact on rapidly changing businesses.

Moderators

Hilke Schellmann

Associate Professor of Journalism, New York University

Hilke Schellmann is an Emmy award-winning investigative journalist and associate professor of journalism at New York University.

Her research focuses on algorithmic accountability and the societal implications of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly examining how AI systems... Read More →

Speakers

Henry Chandonnet

Business News Reporter, Business Insider

Henry Chandonnet is a reporter for the Business News desk at Business Insider. He covers consumer AI and tech culture. Henry previously wrote for Fast Company, where he covered trending tech news. He's also written for The Daily Beast, People Magazine, and Vulture.

Hayden Field

Senior AI reporter, The Verge (Vox Media)

Hayden Field is the senior AI reporter at The Verge. She's been on the AI beat for six years, regularly covering the biggest names in AI, the industry's shifting power dynamics and the tech's societal implications, as well as the AI arms race at large. Prior to The Verge, Field was... Read More →

Saturday May 9, 2026 10:00am - 10:45am EDT
Ormandy West, lobby level

11:00am EDT

Hiding in plain sight: How to find (most) anyone's phone number and email address

Saturday May 9, 2026 11:00am - 11:45am EDT

Ormandy West, lobby level

Learn how to identify and reverse engineer personal contact information for sources using breach data, reverse metadata searching, data broker data and creative guesswork.

Speakers

Zack Kopplin

Investigative Journalist, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

Investigative journalist specializing in cross border corruption and acquiring hard to access documents.

Saturday May 9, 2026 11:00am - 11:45am EDT
Ormandy West, lobby level

12:00pm EDT

Business coverage in the age of shrinking newsrooms

Saturday May 9, 2026 12:00pm - 12:45pm EDT

Ormandy West, lobby level

Local newsrooms are shrinking – and in some cases disappearing. Business journalists need to identify their audience and adapt coverage to connect with readers. Learn how newsrooms are prioritizing business beats, topics and using metrics to inform coverage. We’ll discuss how to lean into real estate, transportation, consumer behavior, workplace/labor, and how to localize national stories. And we’ll show how coverage can benefit from alternate story formats and social media.

Moderators

Letrell Crittenden

Director, Center for Community-Engaged Media, Temple University

Letrell Deshan Crittenden, Ph.D., is the inaugural Director of the Center for Community-Engaged Media at Temple University. In his year at Temple, he has guided the direction of the new center, which seeks to serve the information needs of communities by working by, for and with members... Read More →

Speakers

Julie Bykowicz

Business and Enterprise Editor, The Baltimore Banner

Julie Bykowicz is the business and enterprise editor at The Baltimore Banner, where she leads a team of reporters tackling ambitious stories. She previously covered national politics, with a focus on money and influence, for The Wall Street Journal, The Associated Press and Bloomberg... Read More →

Cynthia Henry

business editor, The Philadelphia Inquirer

Cynthia Henry has served as the Philadelphia Inquirer’s business editor since 2022 and as the built environment editor since 2017. Previous roles include politics editor for the 2016 presidential election, South Jersey editor and reporter, editorial writer, and commentary edito... Read More →

James B. Nelson

business editor, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

James B. Nelson is business editor at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He also teaches business journalism and editing at Marquette University.

James has been an editor for the Journal Sentinel in business news and, before that, in local news, since the 1995 merger of the Milwaukee Journal and Milwaukee Sentinel. During the coronavirus pandemic, he’s the team leader for economics and business coverage for the Journal Sentinel... Read More →

Saturday May 9, 2026 12:00pm - 12:45pm EDT
Ormandy West, lobby level

10:00am EDT

11:00am EDT

12:00pm EDT

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