Investigating Big Tech and overcoming platform capture

Thu Apr 16 2026 at 03:00 pm to 08:00 pm UTC+02:00

Indigo art gallery | Perugia

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Publisher/HostAgência Pública
Investigating Big Tech and overcoming platform capture
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A transnational, candid conversation on journalism's efforts to hold the most powerful companies in the world accountable
About this Event

A series of candid conversations about how the journalistic community can cover Big Tech more effectively and urgently. Enjoy appetizers, drinks, and brainstorming with journalists from all corners of the world. 

Public: For Journalists and researchers interested in investigating Big Tech.  

Format: Three people in Conversation, one moderator, with a lot of interaction from the public. 45 min talks.

Cocktails and drinks starting from 6 PM till 8 PM 


3 PM | “We are framing tech stories wrong - and here’s why” – with: 

Julia Angwin, founder, Proof News

Maria Teresa Ronderos, founder and director, El Clip, Centro Latinoamericano de Periodismo de Investigación 

Daniel Howden, founder and director, Lighthouse Reports

Natalia Viana, cofounder and executive director, Agência Pública 


4 PM | “Big Tech is more than a US-Europe story, we need collaborations with impact” – with: 

Maria Martha Bruno, international partnerships, Agência Pública  

Ariadne Papagitos, impact director, Lighthouse Reports 

Frederik Obermaier, co-founder, papertrail media

Francisca Skoknic,  founder and director, La Bot    


5 PM | “Insider stories: Working confidential sources and learning from them” – with:

Lucas Amin, cofounder, Democracy for Sale

Juliana Dal Piva, journalist, El Clip, and ICL 

Emilia Díaz-Struck, Executive Director, Global Investigative Journalism Network  


6 PM | “Let’s talk Platform Capture 2.0: How Big Tech cozied up to the media and won” – with:

Julie Posetti, Director of the Information Integrity Initiative, a project of TheNerve, Chair of the Centre for Journalism & Democracy, and Professor of Journalism at City, University of London

Sérgio Spagnuolo, cofounder and director, Núcleo Jornalismo  

Peter Georgegan, cofounder, Democracy for Sale     

Carly Penrose, reporter, International Journalism Fund (IJF)


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Indigo art gallery, 51 Via Guglielmo Oberdan, Perugia, Italy

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