The Big Tech Investigation Lab will have an intensive, five-day program that will go through the main issues facing the coverage of Big Tech in Latin America, exploring importante topics and going deep in potential solutions.
The training will take place at the Harmony Hotel in Nosara, Costa Rica, from 12 to 16 of August, 2024.
Details about the training course will be revealed to selected journalists.
See below our list of trainers.
Julia Angwin
Julia is an award-winning investigative journalist, founder of the nonprofit journalism studio Proof News, a bestselling author, and a New York Times contributing Opinion Writer. She is a winner and two time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for her work at The Wall Street Journal and ProPublica. She founded the nonprofit newsroom, The Markup. And she is the author of the New York Times bestseller “Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance” (Times Books, 2014) and “Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America” (Random House, March 2009).
Justin Hendrix
Justin Hendrix is CEO and Editor of Tech Policy Press, a nonprofit media venture concerned with the intersection of technology and democracy. Previously, he was Executive Director of NYC Media Lab. He spent over a decade at The Economist in roles including Vice President, Business Development & Innovation. He is an associate research scientist and adjunct professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering.
Natalia Viana
Natalia is the co-founder and executive director of Agência Pública,
Brazil’s largest nonprofit newsroom. She leads long-term investigations and
multimedia projects about human rights violations and her team has won 75
national and international awards for its excellence in journalism. A 2022
Nieman Fellow at Harvard, she has dedicated the last year to devise new ways of investigating and analyzing misinformation, bringing together knowledge from journalism and academia. Natalia led Agencia Pública’s coverage of the Brazil elections and its aftermath from the angle of disinformation campaigns.
She is the author or co-author of five books about political violence and social issues in Latin America. As a reporter and editor, she has won several journalism awards nationally and internationally.
Emanuel Maiberg
Emanuel is the co founder at 404 Media. He has spent the better part of a decade leading the most dynamic team in the news business, breaking massive stories that were picked up by the biggest publishers in the world and changing the way we talk about technology. He’s interested in little known communities and processes that shape technology, troublemakers, and petty beefs.
Maria Teresa Ronderos
María Teresa Ronderos is co-founder and director of the Latin American Center for Investigative Journalism, CLIP, with around 30 investigations that cross borders, carried out in collaboration with almost 100 media outlets in various Latin American countries and abroad. She has published several books, including 5 en Humor y Guerras Recicladas (Aguilar, 2007 and 2014). She participates in several boards of organizations committed to improve, protect and strengthen journalism in the world. Her investigative work and as digital entrepreneur has been awarded with the international awards Ortega & Gasset, Moors Cabot and King of Spain with the Simón Bolívar Colombian national award for her career.
Sérgio Spagnuolo
Sergio is the founder and executive-director of tech news website Nucleo Journalism, founder of data-driven news agency Volt Data Lab and a former Knight Fellow with the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) (May 2020 - Dec 2022). With over 18 years of experience in newsrooms, he has worked for several media companies, including Reuters, Yahoo News Brasil and Mergermarket (previously owned by the Pearson/Financial Times Group). He is also a innovations management consultant at the International Press Institute (IPI), a non-profit based in Vienna.