Turkey Online Master Class: Community and the Future of Media (October 24, 2023)

Page views and going viral are no longer a viable business strategy for journalism. Andrew Losowsky will share his approach to community building for newsrooms and how anyone can get started, no matter how small their resources are for audience engagement.

Hosted by Istanbul-based journalist Gülsin Harman.

English to Turkish translation will be provided.

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Who can attend

This series of master classes is open to all media professionals in Turkey, including journalists, editors, media managers, business and product managers, community managers, as well as freelance reporters and journalism students.

This is also a chance to network, exchange ideas, tips, and best practices – to share what’s worked for you and learn from others.

Meet the speakers

Andrew Losowsky, Head of Community Products, Vox Media

Andrew Losowsky is the Head of Community Products at Vox Media. He created and led the team for a community platform used by more than 500 major publication websites in 28 countries. He led teams that build magazines and websites, newsletters and installations at such organizations as Mozilla, Vox Media, HuffPost, and a Spanish startup. He also teaches product strategy for mid level professionals at CUNY’s Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. For more information on his work visit www.losowsky.com

Facilitator and host: Gülsin Harman, IPI Turkey, Journalist

Gülsin Harman is an Istanbul-based journalist who frequently contributes to the New York Times and BBC Monitoring. After the Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University in 2020, she received a grant from the European Journalism Center to develop a newsletter. She was selected to join the Product Immersion Program at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and invited to the News Product Alliance Product Expansion Program.

As a researcher, she looked into the online harassment of journalists in Turkey for the International Press Institute in 2016. The detailed investigation resulted in a public database and case profiles featured in a report published by the Institute for the Future. In 2020, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society (BKC) at Harvard University selected her to be a participant in the Assembly Fellowship program which brings members of the cohort of technologists and public policy leads to develop interventions in the areas of disinformation.

More to come!

This special master class is part of “Turkey Digital News Accelerator 2023”, a series of expert online and hybrid workshops on digital transition and innovations for journalists in Turkey.

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