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AccessFest 2026 Expected Sessions

Expected sessions & topics

  • Access, autism, and investigative standards
  • Accessing records and data to report on immigration enforcement actions (NICAR26 reprise)
  • AI concepts you should know (NICAR26 reprise)
  • Art of the business investigation (IRE26 reprise)
  • Best Practices for Covering Threats to Equity in Education
  • Breaking news
  • Building the data that doesn't exist: dos and don'ts for keeping it alive
  • Collaborating better together: how to have hard conversations in the newsroom
  • Connect with skeptical and disengaged audiences (IRE26 reprise)
  • Covering Contaminated Sites Under Trump
  • Covering Elections from the Ground Up: Tips and Tricks from the Sunlight Research Desk
  • Cultivating sources on the inside (IRE26 reprise)
  • Cultural Differences: International Journalists' Reflections on Working in U.S. Partners
  • Emotional management for reporters, freelancers and media leaders
  • Filing better FOIAs (IRE26 reprise)
  • FOIA international jurisdictions
  • How to deliver nuanced, high-impact stories on homelessness
  • How to do alt text for news photos
  • How to Fact-Check Your Investigation On Any Deadline
  • How to get data out of complex documents using AI (NICAR26 reprise)
  • How to turn local data into useful tools for your newsroom — and your audiences (NICAR26 reprise)
  • Investigating college financial health
  • Investigating the AI data center boom (NICAR26 reprise)
  • LGBTQ+ Data Reporting and Visualization
  • Mapping and geographic datasets in local reporting
  • Mastering the Solo Hustle
  • Non-public records and keep sources safe (IRE26 reprise)
  • Techniques for investigating agriculture companies (dairies, feedlots, hog farms, etc.)
  • The new gatekeepers: how AI decides which sources reach your readers, and how to hold it accountable
  • The psychology of investigative reporting (NICAR26 reprise)
  • Three innovative and free tools for journalists
  • Trauma-Informed Reporting (IRE26 reprise)
  • Uncovering ableism in our reporting
  • Using AI and OSINT to Expose Digital Manipulation in Conflict Zones
  • Using data, court records, and public records to expose the criminal legal system
  • Using pop culture to write better investigative stories
  • Using solutions journalism to strengthen an investigation
  • Utilizing police employment and misconduct databases around the U.S.
  • What do YOU do when diversity, equity & inclusion becomes taboo?(IRE26 reprise)
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