‘The Transition to Digital Journalism’

Panel discussion chaired by Luca De Biase (Sole24ore)
with
Ferruccio De Bortoli (former Editor in Chief of the Corriere della Sera)
Andreas Graefe (LMU Munich - Columbia University, N.Y.)

Digital platforms are the new norm for people looking for news. These platforms are extremely fast, personalised and also quite amusing. But there is a danger that they might reduce the public sphere to a set of personal echo-chambers governed by algorithmic filter bubbles. If journalism is to adapt, radical technological innovation and a new methodological accuracy are needed.   

Ferruccio De Bortoli was editor in chief of Il Sole 24 Ore from 2005 to 2009 and twice editor in chief of the Corriere della Sera, from 1997 to 2003 and from 2009 to 2015. He is currently a columnist for the Italian language Swiss daily newspaper Corriere del Ticino and chairman of the Italian publishing house Longanesi.

Andreas Graefe is a research fellow at the Department of Communication Studies and Media Research at LMU Munich, Germany and at Columbia University’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism.  Graefe’s main research areas are forecasting and computational journalism. His work on the development and validation of forecasting methods is published in leading journals in various fields.