19 Webinars this week about AI, Journalism & Media
/Tue, July 15 - Build Faster with ChatGPT: How to Use AI as a Co-Founder, for Students
What: AI-powered strategies to help you tackle your startup challenges. Learn how to prompt and deploy ChatGPT to streamline idea generation, automate marketing, conduct smart market research, and even generate visuals - so you leave with practical tools and confidence to build your venture faster and smarter.
Who: Siya Raj Purohit Education, OpenAI; Harsha Ravindran CEO Expop; Heerraa Ravindran Director of School & Student Engagement, Expop.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Expop & OpenAI Academy
Tue, July 15 - Blending personal narrative and reporting in essays and books
What: The journey toward creating the nonfiction book, “Slip: Life in the Middle of Eating Disorder Recovery,” which is equal parts memoir and journalism.
Who: Mallary Tenore Tarpley, assistant professor of practice at the University of Texas at Austin.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Society for Features Journalism
Wed, July 16 - Misinformation: Truth Deserves Defenders, with Mikheil Benidze
What: This session will help you lead educated conversations within your organization about what qualifies as misinformation and disinformation, how it spreads, and what we can do to expose it. You’ll learn about leading tools and tactics to identify false or misleading content, and explore how to respond with clarity and integrity.
Who: Mikheil Benidze Zinc Network Co-Founder and Programs Director; Marnie Webb TechSoup CEO.
When: 8 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: TechSoup
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Wed, July 16 - Creating ads that connect and convert
What: Practical strategies for turning great creative into a powerful growth engine. Discover how to: Confidently use Canva’s creative tools and Meta’s ad platform Improve ad performance using creative best practices Build Reels-ready content at scale.
Who: Erin Harlan Product Marketing Manager, Canva; Cecilia LV Strategic Partnerships Lead, Meta
When: multiple options
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Canva
Wed, July 16 - Covering protests safely
What: This session will go over best practices for covering protests and what legal rights student journalists have while doing their work.
Who: Ray Black III has worked as a freelance photojournalist for over 20 years; Jonathan Gaston-Falk is a staff attorney at the Student Press Law Center; Ben McNeely is editorial advisor for student media at NC State University.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: College Media Association
Wed, July 16 - Website Rhythm: Creating Effective Layout and Design to Guide Users Smoothly Through Your Site
What: Learn how to improve the look and feel of your digital products as we turn our focus to user experience and user interface. This training will be useful whether you maintain your own website or use a template-based digital publishing platform.
Who: Jeffrey Case, Coastal Carolina University.
When: 5 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: College Media Association
Wed, July 16 – Intro to Review-Writing
What: Advice for emerging writers alongside experienced arts journalists who regularly work with national outlets who want to practice cultural critique and for artists and audiences who want to look inside the critic's process.
Who: Associate Broad Street Review editor Kyle V. Hiller; Critics An Nichols, Stephen Silver.
When: 6:30 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free with a $25 suggested donation
Sponsor: Broad Street Review
Wed, July 16 - Disability Narrative Webinar Series
What: This series is designed to empower journalists, storytellers, and advocates with the tools to create accurate, inclusive and impactful narratives about disability.
Who: Joel Searls Journalist, Producer, Marine Corps Reservist; J.P. Lawrence Army Veteran, Reporter, Star Tribune.
When: 7 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Military Veterans in Journalism
Wed, July 16 - 7 Steps to Unlocking New Possibilities
What: For journalists to reimagine what’s possible in their careers. It’s about giving yourself choices in an industry where too many have been blindsided without a plan. What if you could create options now, before you need them?
Who: Aundrea Cline-Thomas Entrepreneur, Former WCBS-TV Anchor/Reporter.
When: 7 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsors: Journalism & Women Symposium and The Rewrite
Thu, July 17 - Counter-Narratives: Storytelling Is Power, with Pedmia Shatu Tita
What: We’ll examine how storytelling can be used not just for awareness, but for advocacy, healing, and systems change.
Who: Pedmia Shatu Tita, Founder of ‚Global Initiative for Digital Inclusion and Communication
When: 8 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: TechSoup
Thu, July 17 - Back to school strategies that grow audience and revenue
What: We’ll explore how to create high-performing content packages, newsletters, and social media campaigns that resonate with parents, students, and educators. You’ll also learn how to position your content for sponsorship, develop school-focused advertiser partnerships, and use data to drive results.
Who: David Arkin, Founder, David Arkin Consulting.
When: 11 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Local Media Association
Thu, July 17 - The Future Of Measurement: Driving Campaign Performance By Aligning Media And Creative With AI
What: A forward-looking discussion on the future of measurement. We’ll explore how AI is helping brands unite media and creative, understand campaign effectiveness in new ways, and enhance brand equity through smarter, data-driven strategies.
Who: Rachelle Minnis, Chief Media Solutions Officer, Kantar North America; Michele Fisher, Global Director, Business Strategy, Microsoft; Cory Treffiletti, Chief Marketing & Digital Officer, Rembrandt; Maria Pavlova, Manager, Marketing Science, Meta.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Kantar
Thu, July 17 - AI or Humans? The Future of Learning According to Neuroscience
What: Fresh research on the key differences between humans and AI, revealing what each approach gets right (and wrong) when it comes to creating impactful learning experiences. You'll learn how factors like attention, memory, motivation, cognitive workload, and even humor impact learning outcomes.
Who: Carmen Simon, Ph.D. Cognitive Neuroscientist, Founder of Enhancive; Justin Seeley Learning Evangelist, Adobe.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Adobe
Thu, July 17 - Exposing the Silence: Reporting on Deaths in Custody
What: A hands-on workshop on investigating deaths in custody — a largely underreported and deeply consequential issue. With limited federal oversight and minimal state enforcement of reporting requirements, many unnatural deaths in correctional facilities go unreported. This session will equip journalists with the tools and context needed to expose systemic failures that can have tragic consequences.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: The Marshall Project, Arizona Luminaria, Ocala Gazette, and Sunlight Research Center
Thu, July 17 - Counter-Narratives: Storytelling Is Power, with Laura Camacho
What: We’ll explore how counter-narratives can challenge harmful assumptions, reclaim voice, and build collective power.
Who: Laura Camacho, leadership coach.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: TechSoup
Thu, July 17 - Climate Is the Everything Story
What: This important virtual conversation will discuss SJN/CCN’s Climate Blueprint for Media Transformation, released last year, and cover best practices for supporting communities in effecting change and amplifying climate journalists’ work amid powerful opposition from governments and corporations.
Who: Angela K. Evans is the Director, Communities of Practice at the Solutions Journalism Network; Andrew McCormick is a journalist and writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Nation, and the Columbia Journalism Review; Breanna Draxler, who most recently was the deputy editor at YES! Magazine.
When: 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Online News Association
Thu, July 17 - Teaching AI with Confidence
What: You’ll discover practical strategies, resources, and tools to help your teachers confidently teach AI literacy and model responsible AI use in the classroom.
Who: Julianne Robar, Former Educator, Current Senior Director of Metadata and Product Interoperability, Renaissance; Vanessa Gonzalez Cerullo, Vice President of Product, Renaissance; and Jennifer Ehehalt, Former Educator, Current Senior Regional Manager, Common Sense Education.
When: 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Renaissance
Thu, July 17 – Bad Reviews: How to Write Them & Why We Need Them
What: Advice for emerging writers alongside experienced arts journalists who regularly work with national outlets who want to practice cultural critique and for artists and audiences who want to look inside the critic's process.
Who: Associate Broad Street Review editor Kyle V. Hiller; Critics Alix Rosenfeld, and Wendy Rosenfield.
When: 6:30 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free with a $25 suggested donation
Sponsor: Broad Street Review
Fri, July 18 - Ask Me Anything: AI Accountability Network Fellowships
What: Learn about joining the fourth (2025-2026) cohort of the Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Fellowships.
Who: Joanna S. Kao, Pulitzer Center staff; Sofia Schurig AI Fellow.
When: 9 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Pulitzer Center