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

Tickets & Registration
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
11:00 Optional tour at the Historic Library of Journalists' Union of the Athens Daily Newspapers.
11:40 Workshop Opening
12:00 From data to storyboard: a step-by-step method for explanatory storytelling
Krystina Shveda		 Vibe Coding 101: Prompt Engineering for Data Visualizations
Dhrumil Mehta		 Let AI Agents Do the Work: Extract and Enrich Data from Text & Images
Marcel Pauly
13:30 Lunch
14:10 Text to Knowledge: AI Tools and Techniques for explainable extraction of journalistic insights from unstructured text data
Reshmi Pillai		 AI-native, spatially-aware document processing with Natural PDF
Jonathan Soma
15:40 Coffee Break
16:00 Teaching Data Journalism with AI
Dhrumil Mehta		 "Show and Tell": Automating your Graphics and Articles: How Newsrooms Can Build Data-Driven Live and Ongoing Formats
Marcel Pauly

Welcome Dinner
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

Time Event
09:40 Conference Opening
10:00 Opening Keynote
10:50 Panel 1: AI Innovation in Newsrooms: From Promise to Impact
Bahareh Heravi
11:30 Coffee Break
11:50 Building the newsroom infrastructure to enable AI
Martin Stabe
12:10 Responsible AI in Journalism: A Design Thinking Approach to Audience-Centered Topic Selection for Migrant Communities
Roxana Portugal
12:30 From Automation to Augmentation: Ten Years of Lessons Guiding the Future of GenAI in the Newsroom
Telma Marotto
12:50 AI-Powered Alt-Texts: Advancing Digital Accessibility in Data Driven Journalism
Katharina Schell
13:10 Lunch
14:00 Keynote 2
14:40 Panel 2: News at Play: Gamification and News Games as Tools for Civic Engagement
Ioanna Georgia Eskiadi, Nikolaos Panagiotou, Andreas Panagopoulos		 Panel 3: Uncovering Offshore Secrecy through Passport Detection: Journalists and Scientists Reveal how they Integrated Machine Learning
Delphine Reuter
15:20 Can LLMs turn Fact-Checks into Disinformation Narratives?
Christos Gavalas, Ilias Kanellos, Danae Tsabouraki
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
16:20 Assessing AI in Political News Production: A Case Study of AI-Native News
Kevser Salih
16:40 Data Storytelling with the Press: Lessons from the Civic Sector
Lucy Block
17:00 Is Fear Born of Ignorance? Associations Between Journalistsā€™ AI Attitudes, Knowledge, and Use
Sorsha Sabus, Sina ThƤsler-Kordonouri, and Neil Thurman
17:20 Keynote 3
18:10 Closing Remarks

Wednesday September 10

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

Time Event
09:40 Conference Opening
10:00 Opening Keynote
10:50 Panel 4: AI Literacy in the Newsroom
Bahareh Heravi		 Panel 5: Data Journalism Teacher's Club
Druhmil Mehta
11:30 AI Transparency in the News: A Case Study of Transparency Approaches at the Financial Times
Liz Lohn		 Teaching and Developing Data Journalism Course in Global South: A Case Study from an Indonesian University
Utami Diah Kusumawati
11:50 Coffee Break
12:10 Exploring Media Contributions to the Open Data Ecosystem - An Analysis of GitHub Repositories from Large News Organisations
Georgios Papageorgiou		 Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Chatbot Application for Greek Newsrooms
Nikolaos Armenakis
12:30 Growing Adoption of AI and Automation Through Accessible Use Cases
Stephen Harding		 Detecting Ideology in Climate Discourse: Transformer-Based Metaphor Mining in Neoliberal Media
Katerina Mandenaki
12:50 Inclusive by Design: Data-driven Strategies for Journalism in Multicultural Contexts
Reshmi Pillai		 AI-Powered Knowledge Graphs for Science-Based Journalism
Pedro Henriques
13:10 POWER OF DATA JOURNALISM - Dismantling the stereotypes with data: stories that revealed EU-China relationship following money in third countries
Ana Curic		 Framing & Agenda Profiling: Using Multi-Entity Sentiment Analysis for Detecting Media Capture
Joshua King
13:30 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.

Welcome Dinner
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.)
  • Telma Marotto (Bloomberg)
  • Titus Plattner (Tamedia, Switzerland)
Academic Partners