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The landmark International Journalism Festival is finally back next week after previous events being cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The speakers and panels are all decided. Now it is just the question of how you to make the most of the four days of talks. Never fear, Journalism.co.uk has you covered.

These are the ten big topics the conference will cover with our top three panel picks in each category to whet your appetite. We have only selected the talks in English which kick off from 7 April. All times are in CET. All the sessions are live-streamed and will be available for viewing during the festival on their website's homepage.

Whether you'll be soaking up the sun along with those nuggets of industry wisdom, or engaging in a sofa-bound online binge this is our best of Perugia rundown for your diaries.

Revenue and business models:

Is philanthropy funded journalism “real” journalism: and how does it work in a traditional newsroom?

When: 8 April, 9 am - 10 am

Who: Eliza Anyangwe (CNN), Alastair Gee (Guardian US), Lola Huete Machado (El País), Tracy Mcveigh (The Guardian)

Modelling the business under repression

When: 8 April, 10:30 am - 11:30 am

Who: Veronika Munk (Telex), Jacqui Park (IPI), Daryna Shevchenko (Kyiv Independent), Siddarth Varadarajan (The Wire)

What’s next for the business of news?

When: 8 April, 2 pm - 3 pm

Who: Federica Cherubini (RISJ), Renée Kaplan (Financial Times), Rosalia Lloret (elDiario.es), Siddarth Varadarajan (The Wire)

Reporting:

Exposing the people and funding behind websites and digital ads

When: 7 April, 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Who: Craig Silverman (ProPublica)

Covering Putin’s War

When: 7 April, 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Who: Natalia Antelava (Coda Story), Jane Lytvynenko (Shorenstein Center), Peter Pomerantsec (Agora Institute)

Climate change: the do’s and don'ts of "solutions journalism"

When: 8 April, 2 pm - 3 pm

Who: Katy Daigle (Reuters), Chris Michael (Guardian Seascape), Dayana Sarkisova (The Washington Post), Adam Vaughan (The New Scientist)

Fact-checking and mis-/disinformation:

Geojournalism: how to use satellite imagery to verify information and uncover new stories

When: 7 April, 12 pm - 1 pm

Who: Benjamin Strick (Centre for Information Resilience)

How local news can empower civic engagement and the fight against misinformation

When: 8 April, 5 pm - 6 pm

Who: Marianna Bruschi (GEDI Gruppo Editoriale), Candice Fortman (Outlier Media), Anita Li (The Other Wave), Tassos Morfis (AthensLive)

Mapping conspiracies

When: 9 April, 12 pm - 1 pm

Who: Daniel Howdon (Lighthouse Reports), Ross Higgins, Annique Mossou, Logan Williams (all Bellingcat)

Diversity:

Reaching the 51 per cent: learning from progressive gender representation policies

When: 7 April, 9 am - 10 am

Who: Francesca Donner (Quartz), Lisa Kassenaar (writer and editor), Inga Thordar (media executive), Anette Young (France 24)

Ageism in the newsroom: when are you too old to make the headlines?

When: 8 April, 5 pm - 6 pm 8/4/22

Who: Deborah Copaken (journalist and author), Kate O’Brian (Scripps Network), Anette Young (France 24)

Why diversity isn't changing your newsroom culture: cultural tipping points and how to bring about change

When: 9 April, 9 am - 10 am

Who: Joseph Harker (The Guardian), Diane Kemp (Birmingham City University), Marcus Ryder (Sir Lenny Henry centre for Media Diversity), Eva Simpson (The Daily Mirror)

AI:

Opening AI’s black box

When: 7 April, 9 am - 10 am

Who: Julia Angwin (The Markup), Tom Cardoso (The Globe and Mail), Dhruv Mehrotra (Reveal), Aaron Sankin (The Markup)

A crash course for journalists on AI and machine learning

When: 7 April, 10:30 am - 11:30 am

Who: Mattia Peretti (JournalismAI), Aimee Rinehart (Associated Press)

Using AI to tackle ‘impossible’ investigations

When: 10:30 am - 11:30 am 9/4/22

Who: Clayton Aldern (Grist), Edward Boyda (Earthrise Media), Boyoung Lim (Pulitzer Center), Hyury Potter (Rainforest investigations Network), Lucia Wallinchus (Eye on Ohio)

Tech, product and platforms:

Google News Initiative: new tools and techniques for journalists

When: 7 April, 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Who: Caroline Scott (Google News Lab)

Newsroom innovation in a post-pandemic ecosystem

When: 8 April, 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Who: Jane Barrett (Reuters), Fergus Bell (Fathm), Ezra Eeman (Mediahuis), Justyna Kurczabinska (EBU)

TikTok vs Instagram Reels

When: 8 April, 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Who: Yasmina Al-Gannabi, Sebastian Katthover and Erika Marzano (all Duetsche Welle)

Leadership:

How journalism leaders learn

When: 7 April, 10:30 am - 11:30 am

Who: Matt Cooke (Google), Lucy Kung (RISJ), Francois Nel (UCLAN), Anita Zielina (CUNY)

How to decide how to do new things (or not) in newsrooms 

When: 7 April, 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Who: Renée Kaplan (Financial Times), Robin Kwong (Wall Street Journal), Florence Martin-Kessler (Live Magazine), Chris Moran (Guardian)

Leadership after a pandemic: how to lead a non-toxic newsroom

When: 9 April, 10:30 am - 11:30 am

Who: Antonia Goetsche (Harvard Business Manager), Astrid Maier (XING), Niddal Salah-Eldin (FreeTech Academy), Anita Zielina (CUNY)

Mental health and future of work

In the post-pandemic world, is a physical newsroom worth fighting for?

When: 7 April, 3:30 pm - 4:30pm

Who: Jane Barrett (Reuters), Maike Jungjohann (RTL News), Nic Newman (RISJ), Angela Pacienza (The Globa and Mail)

Moral dilemmas, moral injury and moral support: the psychological toll of journalism and how we can build resilience

When: 8 April, 12 pm - 1 pm

Who: Amira Al-Sharif (photojournalist), Anthony Feinstein (University of Toronto), Clothilde Redfern (Rory Peck Trust), Sanne Terlingen (Argos VRPO)

Are you managing well? How to start a mental health discussion in your newsroom

When: 8 April, 5 pm - 6 pm

Who: Eliza Anyangwe (CNN), John Crowley and Hannah Storm (Headlines Network), Sarah ward-Lilley (executive coach)

Journalist safety:

Online harassment SOS

When: 7 April, 12 pm - 1 pm

Who: Harlo Holmes (Freedom of the Press Foundation), Viktorya Vilk (PEN America)

Online violence against women journalists: a global scourge that demands urgent action

When: 9 April, 5 pm - 6 pm

Who: Rana Ayyub (Washington Post), Patricia Campos Mello (Folha de Sao Paulo), Julie Posetti (ICFJ), Marianna Spring (BBC)

SOS: how newsrooms can support journalists facing online abuse

When: 9 April, 12 pm - 1 pm

Who: Karen Mahabir (Associated Press), Elodie Vialle (Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society), Viktorya Vilk (PEN America)

Ethics and standards:

Journalism in the post-truth era: the changing norms and ethics of journalism

When: 8 April, 10:30 am - 11:30 am

Who: Ros Atkins (BBC), Emily Bell (Tow Centre for Digital Journalism), Errin Haines (The 19th), Vivian Shiller (Aspen Institute)

Should media organisations and journalists be accepting funding from Google and Meta?

When: 9 April, 12 pm - 1 pm

Who: Charlie Beckett (London School of Economics), Emily Bell (Tow Centre for Digital Journalism), Matthew Ingram (Columbia Journalism Review)

Murdoch: the elephant in our room

When: 9 April, 2 pm - 3 pm

Who: James Ball (Bureau of Investigative Journalism), Jeff Jarvis (CUNY), Kyle Pope Columbia Journalism Review), Julie Posetti (ICFJ)

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