The European Data & Computational Journalism
Conference 2025

September 8th - 10th
Athens, Greece

Where

University of Athens Central Building
šŸ“Panepistimiou 30, Athens, 106 79

When

September 8th - 10th 2025

Tickets

ā‚¬85 (+ tax) - General Admission

ā‚¬45 (+ tax) - Students/Journalists

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The Conference

The fifth European Data & Computational Journalism Conference aims to bring together industry, practitioners and academics in the fields of journalism and news production.

This unique conference focused on information, data, social and computer sciences, facilitating a multidisciplinary discussion on these topics in order to advance research and practice in the broad area of Data and Computational Journalism. This is a venue where journalists and researchers meet, news organisations share experiences with computational and social scientists, and together explore new kinds of practices that can serve the public good. The conference will present a mix of academic talks and keynotes from industry leaders.

This will be the 5th edition of the European Data and Computational Journalism Conference (datajconf).
Tickets and Registration are now open.

Schedule

Monday, September 8

Workshops

Journalists' Union of Athens Daily Newspapers
šŸ“Akadimias 20, Athens, 106 71

Time Event
11:30 Optional tour at the Historic Library of Journalists' Union of the Athens Daily Newspapers.
12:00 Vibe Coding 101: Prompt Engineering for Data Visualizations
Dhrumil Mehta (Columbia University) and Aarushi Sahejpal (American University)
3rd floor, Journalists' Union		 Let AI Agents Do the Work: Extract and Enrich Data from Text & Images using Python
Marcel Pauly (Der Spiegel)
1st floor, Journalists' Union
13:30 Lunch
14:10 Text to Knowledge: AI Tools and Techniques for explainable extraction of journalistic insights from unstructured text data
Reshmi Pillai (VU Amsterdam)
7th floor, Journalists' Union		 AI-native, spatially-aware document processing with Natural PDF
Jonathan Soma (Columbia University)
3rd floor, Journalists' Union
15:40 Coffee Break
16:00 Teaching Data Journalism with AI
Dhrumil Mehta (Columbia University), Aarushi Sahejpal (American University) and Nausheen Husain (Syracuse University)
1st floor, Journalists' Union		 "Show and Tell": Automating your Graphics and Articles: How Newsrooms Can Build Data-Driven Live and Ongoing Formats
Marcel Pauly (Der Spiegel)
7th floor, Journalists' Union

Speakers & Presenters: Welcome Drink
Athens University History Museum
šŸ“Tholou 5, Plaka ā€“ 105 56 Athens


Tuesday September 9

University of Athens Central Building
šŸ“Panepistimiou 30, Athens, 106 79

Livestream Link: Watch Here

Time Event
09:40 Conference Opening
10:00 Opening Keynote
Anticipating AI's Impact on Future Information Ecosystems
Nick Diakopoulos (Northwestern University)
10:50 Panel 1: AI Innovation in Newsrooms: From Promise to Impact
Bahareh Heravi (University of Surrey), Laura Ellis (BBC), Titus Plattner (Tamedia), Karyn Fleeting (Reach plc.), Oli Hawkins (Financial Times)
11:30 Coffee Break
11:50 Building the newsroom infrastructure to enable AI
Martin Stabe (Financial Times)
12:10 Responsible AI in Journalism: A Design Thinking Approach to Audience-Centered Topic Selection for Migrant Communities
Roxana Portugal (LMU Munich), Maximilian Eder (LMU Munich), Neil Thurman (LMU Munich) and Mario Haim (LMU Munich)
12:30 From Automation to Augmentation: Ten Years of Lessons Guiding the Future of GenAI in the Newsroom
Telma Marotto (Bloomberg), Ellen Braitman (Bloomberg) and Peter Svensson (Bloomberg)
12:50 AI-Powered Alt-Texts: Advancing Digital Accessibility in Data Driven Journalism
Katharina Schell (Austria Press Agency), Christian Haslacher (Austria Press Agency) and Rosina KĆ¼ffner (Austria Press Agency)
13:10 Lunch
14:00 Keynote 2
Finding your AI Frontier
Marc Lavallee
14:40 Panel 2: News at Play: Gamification and News Games as Tools for Civic Engagement
Ioanna Georgia Eskiadi (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Nikolaos Panagiotou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Andreas Panagopoulos
Auditorium		 Panel 3: Uncovering Offshore Secrecy through Passport Detection: Journalists and Scientists Reveal how they Integrated Machine Learning
Delphine Reuter (ICIJ), Nuno Loureiro (Oslomet)
Senate Hall (1st Floor)
15:20 Can LLMs turn Fact-Checks into Disinformation Narratives?
Christos Gavalas (ATC), Ilias Kanellos (ATC), Danae Tsabouraki (ATC)
15:40 Coffee Break
16:00 UNHEARD, help news organizations reveal potentially overlooked narratives by using AI to audit who is quoted in their articles
Bette Dam (UNHEARD) and Druhmil Mehta (Columbia University)
16:20 Inclusive by Design: Data-driven Strategies for Journalism in Multicultural Contexts
Reshmi Pillai (VU Amsterdam)
16:40 Data Storytelling with the Press: Lessons from the Civic Sector
Lucy Block (Climate and Community Institute)
17:00 Is Fear Born of Ignorance? Associations Between Journalistsā€™ AI Attitudes, Knowledge, and Use
Sorsha Sabus (LMU Munich), Sina ThƤsler-Kordonouri (LMU Munich), and Neil Thurman (LMU Munich)
17:20 Keynote 3
AI Journalism: What can we, could we, should we do?
Laura Ellis (BBC)
18:10 Closing Remarks

21:00 - All Participants: Conference Social
A LIAR MAN (bar)
šŸ“Sofroniou 2, Athina 118 54


Wednesday September 10

University of Athens Central Building
šŸ“Panepistimiou 30, Athens, 106 79

Livestream Link: Watch Here

Time Event
09:40 Conference Opening
10:00 Opening Keynote
Building an Infrastructure for Local News
Cheryl Phillips (Stanford University)
10:50 Detecting Ideology in Climate Discourse: Transformer-Based Metaphor Mining in Neoliberal Media
Katerina Mandenaki (National & Kapodistrian University of Athens) and Constantinos Mourlas (National & Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Senate Hall (1st Floor)		 Panel 4: Data Journalism Teacher's Club
Druhmil Mehta (Columbia University), Nausheen Husain (Syracuse University), Aarushi Sahejpal (American University) and Catherine Sotirakou (National & Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Drakopoulos Auditorium
11:10 Assessing AI in Political News Production: A Case Study of AI-Native News
Kevser Salih (Istanbul Bigli University)
Senate Hall (1st Floor)
11:30 Coffee Break
11:50 Exploring Media Contributions to the Open Data Ecosystem - An Analysis of GitHub Repositories from Large News Organisations
Georgios Papageorgiou (University of the Aegean), Charalampos Alexopoulos (University of the Aegean), Euripidis Loukis (University of Aegean)
Senate Hall (1st Floor)		 Panel 5: AI Literacy in the Newsroom
Bahareh Heravi (University of Surrey), Karyn Fleeting (Reach plc.), Laura Ellis (BBC), Titus Plattner (Tamedia), Catherine Sotirakou (IQ Media), Cheryl Phillips (Stanford University)
Drakopoulos Auditorium
12:10 Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Chatbot Application for Greek Newsrooms
Nikolaos Armenakis (University of Patras), Panagiotis Germanakos (SAP SE), Christos Makris (University of Patras) and Constantinos Mourlas (National & Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Senate Hall (1st Floor)
12:30 Teaching and Developing Data Journalism Course in Global South: A Case Study from an Indonesian University
Utami Diah Kusumawati (RMIT University)
Senate Hall (1st Floor)		 AI-Powered Knowledge Graphs for Science-Based Journalism
Pedro Henriques (Newsroom AI)
Drakopoulos Auditorium
12:50 Framing & Agenda Profiling: Using Multi-Entity Sentiment Analysis for Detecting Media Capture
Joshua King (Dublin City University), Michael Breen (Dublin City University) and Alessio Cornia (Dublin City University)
Senate Hall (1st Floor)		 POWER OF DATA JOURNALISM - Dismantling the stereotypes with data: stories that revealed EU-China relationship following money in third countries
Ana Curic (Universidad Ramon Llull)
Drakopoulos Auditorium
13:10 Closing Remarks
Location

Monday, September 8

Workshops
Journalists' Union of Athens Daily Newspapers
šŸ“Akadimias 20, Athens, 106 71

Hands-on sessions and expert-led workshops will dive into cutting-edge tools, methodologies, and ethical frameworks shaping modern journalism.

Speakers and Presenters: Welcome Drink
Athens University History Museum
šŸ“Tholou 5, Plaka ā€“ 105 56 Athens
Reconnect with colleagues and meet new collaborators in one of Athensā€™ most historic venues, nestled in the heart of Plaka.


Tuesday & Wednesday, September 9ā€“10

Main Conference
University of Athens Central Building
šŸ“Panepistimiou 30, Athens, 106 79
Two days of keynotes, panels, and presentations exploring computational methods, algorithmic accountability, generative AI, and cross-border data investigations with a critical lens on practice, power, and public interest.

General Program Chairs
Bahareh Heravi
Dr. Bahareh Heravi
Reader (Associate Professor) of AI & Media, Institute for People-Centred AI, University of Surrey, England
Martin Chorley
Dr. Martin Chorley
Reader (Associate Professor), School of Computer Science & Informatics, Cardiff University
Co-Chairs
Dr. Catherine Sotirakou
Dr. Catherine Sotirakou
Visiting Professor, Department of Communication and Media Studies, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
Dr. Constantinos Mourlas
Dr. Constantinos Mourlas
Professor, Department of Communication and Media Studies, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
Dr. Panagiotis Germanakos
Dr. Panagiotis Germanakos
Principal UX Research Scientist, SAP SE, Germany.
National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
Program Committee
  • Aliya Itzkowitz, (FT Strategies, U.K.)
  • Andreas Veglis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
  • Bahareh Heravi (University of Surrey, U.K.)
  • Bella Palomo (Universidad de MaĢlaga, Spain)
  • Bronwyn Jones (University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)
  • Carl-Gustav Linden (University of Bergen, Norway)
  • Catherine Sotirakou (University of Athens, Greece)
  • Constantinos Mourlas (University of Athens, Greece)
  • Eddy Borges-Rey (Northwestern University, Qatar)
  • Felix Simon, (University of Oxford, UK)
  • James Hamilton (Stanford University, U.S.)
  • Karyn Fleeting (University of Surrey, U.K)
  • Konstantinos Mourlas (University of Athens, Greece)
  • Kuang Keng Kuek Ser (Pulitzer Centre, U.S.)
  • Martin Chorley (Cardiff University, Wales, U.K.)
  • Meredith Broussard (New York University, U.S.)
  • Nicholas Diakopoulos (Northwestern University, U.S.)
  • Panagiotis Germanakos (SAP SE)
  • Paul Bradshaw (Birmingham City University, U.K.)
  • RamĆ³n SalaverrĆ­a (University of Navarra, Spain)
  • Telma Marotto (Bloomberg)
  • Titus Plattner (Tamedia, Switzerland)
Academic Partners
Media Partners