Journalists, high school students and media professionals gathered at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Journalism and Mass Communications Saturday for the Nebraska Press Women Spring Conference to discuss journalism, AI and the future built with local news.
The conference featured two Pulitzer Prize winners. Matt Waite, a UNL professor of practice in news, spoke about AI and how to use it purposefully. The conference brought together news reporters and faculty, including Andrew Wegley, a Flatwater Free Press reporter, and Zach Wendling, a Nebraska Examiner reporter and UNL alumnus.
Chris Graves, a UNL alumnus and a Pulitzer Prize winner, has spent 35 years working in newspaper, print, TV and public radio newsrooms. She was part of a 2018 Pulitzer Prize-winning team at the Cincinnati Enquirer, which won the prize for Local Reporting on the story “Seven Days of Heroin.” Graves’ speech touched on the importance of sustained local reporting in covering everyday life, government transparency and major social issues…