

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Pre-Conference: Journalism, Platforms, and Public Interest Technologies
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 08 Apr, 2026 at 09:00 am – Wed, 08 Apr, 2026 at 06:00 pm (+02:00)
- **Event Description**: Registration is for audience members only. Presenters and panellists are already accounted for and do not need to sign up.About this EventConference TopicIn recent years, Public Interest Technology (PIT) has emerged as a field devoted to rethinking the institutions, infrastructures, and technology-embedded services that shape society for the common good. Defined by Tara Dawson McGuinness and Hana Schank (2021) as “the application of design, data, and delivery to advance the public interest and promote the public good in the digital age,” PIT has largely concentrated on governmental and nonprofit contexts. Yet journalism and media studies are increasingly recognizing the value of this framework for interrogating—and redesigning—the technological systems that underpin news production, distribution, and engagement.This turn is overdue. Journalism’s long-standing mission to hold power accountable has been widely understood as foundational to democracy (Helberger, 2019; Hampton, 2009). But that mission is under strain. Privately controlled digital infrastructures (Luitse, 2024; Simon, 2022), opaque platform architectures, metrics-driven newsroom cultures (Dodds et al., 2023; Schaetz, 2024; Christin, 2020), and rapidly advancing automation systems are reshaping the conditions under which journalism can operate in the public interest (Sevignani et al., 2025). These shifts raise urgent questions about how journalists might adopt PIT principles to critically assess the technologies they depend on and how the field can imagine alternatives that better serve democratic needs.This conference invites scholars, practitioners, and technologists to examine what is working, what is changing, and what tensions arise as journalism adapts its public mission through the lenses of design, data, and delivery. How might PIT reshape journalistic practices, media organizations, platform relationships, and collaborative models within newsrooms, across media systems, with platforms, and alongside public and civic actors?
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Groningen
- **state**: GR
- **country**: Netherlands
- **location**: University of Groningen
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- **full address**: University of Groningen, 5 Broerstraat, Groningen, Netherlands

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- **organizer**: Leiden University (https://allevents.in/org/leiden-university/21641989)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wed, 08 Apr, 2026 at 09:00 am (+02:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** University of Groningen, 5 Broerstraat, Groningen, Netherlands
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- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
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