19 Webinars this week about AI, Journalism & Media
/Mon, Mar 9 - How to Use AI Tools Safely: Protect Your Nonprofit
What: Are you using public ChatGPT or logging into your organization's private Copilot? Is Google Gemini safe? What about other AI tools? Do you have to disclose when you use an AI note taker at a board meeting? Is your valuable data protected? What does your AI policy allow? Learn from a cybersecurity expert how to use AI the secure way. Every level of AI user will learn something in this session.
Who: Matt Eshleman, Community IT Innovations
When: 11 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Nonprofit Learning Lab
Mon, Mar 9 - Legal Writing Seminar: With Some Not So Typical Topics
Who: Kenneth Bresler, Administrative Magistrate, Division of Administrative Law Appeals.
When: 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Social Law Library
Tue, Mar 10 - Online Accessibility: Alt Text, Contrast, Descriptive Links, and Forms
Who: Kathleen Sullivan, Open Data Librarian, Washington State Library.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Washington State Library
Tue, Mar 10 - Impactful - and Ethical - Storytelling for Nonprofits
What: Share simple, budget-friendly ways to incorporate video into your organization's communications strategy without compromising ethics. Whether you’re new to video or looking to improve your current approach, you’ll walk away with practical, ethical storytelling techniques that help your organization create videos that tell the real story of volunteer impact. In this session, you’ll learn: Video creation tips that are accessible to nonprofits of all sizes, budgets, and bandwidths; Storytelling prompts that spark great stories from every member of your community; and Ethical storytelling considerations that should stay top-of-mind.
Who: Natalie Monroe from MemoryFox; Jennifer Bennett from Idealist.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Idealist
Tue, Mar 10 - Is AI Working For You? And If Not, Why Not
What: We’ll explore how AI is being used, implemented, and evaluated across different contexts. We’ll place special emphasis on evaluation, how to measure effectiveness, identify gaps, and use insights to drive process improvement, secure additional funding, and build stronger organizational support.
Who: Jack Phillips, Ph.D. Chairman, ROI Institute.
When: 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Training Magazine Network
Wed, Mar 11 - The World of Social Media – Digital Marketing Masterclass
What: Whether you’re a small business owner, entrepreneur, or want to grow your marketing strategies, this session will equip you with the tools and strategies to elevate your online presence.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Small Business Development Center, Widener University
Wed, Mar 11 - Teaching AI with Confidence: Skills and Strategies for AI Literacy Day
What: The session will highlight practical, age‑appropriate strategies for teaching AI and digital citizenship—from early digital habits to media analysis, responsible creation, and algorithmic awareness. You’ll explore how free resources like My Digital Life and the Digital Citizenship Initiative can anchor instruction, spark curiosity, and help students understand how AI influences their choices, creativity, and digital identities through ready‑to‑use lessons, interactive scenarios, and student‑centered activities.
Who: Tim Needles is an artist, educator, performer, and the author of STEAM Power: Infusing Art Into Your STEM Curriculum; Kim Allman is a seasoned executive with extensive experience in corporate responsibility, ESG strategy, and government affairs.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsors: Discovery Education & Gen, Norton
Wed, Mar 11 - Detecting and Investigating Healthcare Fraud
What: We will walk attendees through a real Medicare fraud investigation that exposed a multimillion-dollar scheme involving fraudulent billing for medical supplies that patients never ordered or received. Participants will learn how to recognize red flags in healthcare billing, corroborate victim statements with documentation, follow financial and records trails and organize findings into a story that can withstand legal scrutiny. This session provides practical insight into how large-scale healthcare fraud is detected, investigated and built into a prosecutable case.
Who: Walter Smith Randolph, Executive Producer of Investigations, CBS News.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Sunlight Research Desk
Wed, Mar 11 - The AI Black Hole (and How to Get Out of It)
What: We will explore why AI investments fail without proper data infrastructure and how training management systems solve the problem at its source. We will walk through real client use cases showing how aligning data strategy, training operations, and AI drives measurable business impact.
Who: John Peebles CEO, Administrate.
When: 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Administrate
Thu, Mar 12 - Beat Academy: Facing a Tough News Audience
What: We will unpack findings from the Pew-Knight Initiative about how the public is drifting away from news, how they come across it, and what they do to check what they see.
Who: Jon Greenberg, Faculty, Pew Research Center.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Poynter
Thu, Mar 12 - Codex for Software Engineers
What: Join us for a technical overview of Codex, the AI software engineering agent that can help developers write features, debug code, run tests, and navigate large codebases. In this session, we’ll demonstrate how engineers are using Codex to accelerate development workflows, automate repetitive tasks, and collaborate more effectively with AI during the software development lifecycle.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: OpenAI Academy
Thu, Mar 12 - Unlocking AI in Government: The Governance Foundation for Secure Innovation
What: We'll explore compelling use cases for AI across both internal operations and citizen-facing services, then discuss how identity governance creates the foundation for secure innovation.
Who: Jerred Edgar, Chief Information Security & Operations Officer, Idaho; David Hinchman, Director, IT & Cybersecurity, U.S. Government Accountability Office; Ryan Murray, Deputy Director, State Chief Information Security Officer, Arizona Department of Homeland Security, Statewide Information Security and Privacy Office; Morgan Reed, Distinguished Strategic Advisor, Okta.
When: 2:00 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: GovLoop
Thu, Mar 12 - Covering Communities at Risk: What Can Reporters and Outlets Learn from Ethnic Media
What: In this webinar, you will learn journalism strategies deployed by reporters and newsrooms participating in the Center for Health Journalism’s Engagement Initiative. Those efforts focus on centering community voices in innovative ways.
Who: Enrique Chiabra, news anchor at Telemundo 52 Los Angeles; Mariana Duran is a bilingual Spanish-English journalist for El Tecolote; Teena Apeles is the national engagement editor at the Center for Health Journalism at the USC Annenberg School of Journalism.
When: 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Online News Association and the USC Center for Health Journalism,
Thu, Mar 12 - Tips to Build Your LinkedIn Brand
What: You’ll learn: Where in your profile to effectively incorporate keywords; How to clearly brand yourself to be memorable; How to evaluate your headline and add a USP; Free tools and resources for entrepreneurs and small business.
Who: Lynne Williams, Executive Director of the Great Careers Network.
When: 6 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Small Business Development Center, Widener University
Thu, Mar 12 - Digital Security 101
What: This practical workshop covers encrypted messaging, social media lockdown strategies, device security, and how to defend against hacking and online harassment.
When: 6:30 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free to SPJ members
Sponsors: Society of Professional Journalists, Georgia & Freedom of the Press Foundation
Fri, Mar 13 - An Introduction to Copyright Issues Affecting the Use of Film and Video in Libraries, Archives and Museums
Who: Members of OCEAN’s board.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Ocean (Open Copyright Education Advisory Network)
Fri, Mar 13 - ChatGPT for Resumes and Interviews
What: We’ll walk through practical ways to use ChatGPT to prepare for new opportunities, from refining your resume to getting ready for interviews. We’ll explore how ChatGPT can help you organize your experience, practice interview questions, and build confidence throughout the job search process. This session is designed to be approachable and useful whether you’re actively applying for roles or simply looking to strengthen your career readiness.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: OpenAI Academy
Fri, Mar 13 - Teaching Information Literacy
What: This content-agnostic training is based on New Jersey’s Four Pillars framework for information literacy and founded on the notion that information literacy is skills-based. You’ll have the chance to develop skills in using each of the Four Pillars: information need, identification and evaluation, use, and creation and distribution. In conversations with colleagues, you’ll have the opportunity to talk about how to apply what you’ve learned in working directly with learners of all ages.
Who: Linda W. Braun, a highly experienced youth services consultant; Jen Nelson, New Jersey’s state librarian.
When: 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Washington State Library
Sat, Mar 14 - Digital Open-Source Investigations & OSINT for Journalism
What: Participants will learn how to verify images and videos by finding exactly where they were recorded using satellite and street - view imagery from platforms like Google Earth and Maps.
When: 6 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free to Members
Sponsors: National Association of Hispanic Journalists, USC Annenberg School of Communication & Journalism