An annual journalism and technology conference about mobile media and digital technology best practices

Top digital journalists, innovators and researchers from universities and news organizations across the nation will lead this year’s Mobile Me&You conference. 

Mobile Me&You 2023 focuses on storytelling on mobile media platforms while highlighting new, innovative techniques and best practices for newsgathering. Speakers will discuss informing and engaging new audiences in the mobile era – particularly in the wake of artificial intelligence, 5G and expanding rural broadband. They will cover various techniques and reporting tools, including bots, augmented and virtual reality, 360° video and mobile platforms. Speakers also will discuss geographically targeted place-based messaging and audience engagement.

Speakers on Friday, Oct. 13

Chris Ball, University of Illinois
Jeremy Gilbert, Northwestern University
Robert Hernandez, University of Southern California
Julia Munslow, The Wall Street Journal
Dan Pacheco, Syracuse University
Ryan Restivo, Newsday 
Ray Soto, Loric Games
Subramaniam Vincent, Santa Clara University
Zach Wade, CNN

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Since its inception in 2015, Mobile Me&You has helped more than 800 journalists and students learn how to better use mobile and digital tools in reporting.

Sponsored by the Knight Chair in Investigative Reporting at the College of Media, University of Illinois, the College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Mid-America Press Institute, and Investigate Midwest, with funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.