Protecting Visual Storytelling: Tools for Radical Transparency in a Post-Truth Era

{
  "id": "PP1162476",
  "track": "Culture",
  "focus_area": null,
  "category": "Panel",
  "event_id": "PP1162476",
  "event_type": "panel",
  "format": "Panel",
  "genre": null,
  "subgenre": null,
  "name": "Protecting Visual Storytelling: Tools for Radical Transparency in a Post-Truth Era",
  "presented_by": null,
  "publish_at": "2025-11-03T16:30:00.000-06:00",
  "reservable": true,
  "reservable_id": "PP1162476",
  "reserved": false,
  "date": "2026-03-14",
  "end_time": "2026-03-14T15:30:00.000-05:00",
  "start_time": "2026-03-14T14:30:00.000-05:00",
  "message": null,
  "image": null,
  "credentials": [
    {
      "name": "Platinum Badge",
      "type": "platinum"
    },
    {
      "name": "Innovation Badge",
      "type": "innovation"
    }
  ],
  "contributors": [
    {
      "id": 78253,
      "company": "Temple University",
      "credential_types": [
        "innovation"
      ],
      "entity_id": 2239220,
      "name": "Tara Pixley",
      "speaker_types": [
        "Speaker"
      ],
      "title": "Director, Master of Journalism Program",
      "image": {
        "alt_text": "Tara Pixley",
        "credit": null,
        "url": "https://images.sxsw.com/NMkCxv4r5GFxasB2XOpNxLAJx1M=/0x390:3333x3723/600x600/images.sxsw.com/48/7a412816-1f4c-4b4f-acfe-47ade87a64c0/pcid-1622518"
      },
      "speaker_type": "Speaker",
      "details": "Tara Pixley is a queer, Jamaican-American photojournalist and scholar whose work frames race, gender, climate futures, LGBTQ+ and immigrant communities through a solutions lens. She is a Fulbright Specialist in Visual Media and has been named a Reynolds Journalism Innovation Fellow; Pulitzer Center Grantee; World Press Photo Solutions Visual Journalism Initiative grantee; and a Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard. Tara has served as Vice President of National Press Photographers Association (NPPA), and is currently on the Boards of Stocksy United and the Photography Ethics Centre. She is Executive Director/co-Founder of Authority Collective — an organization dedicated to establishing equity in visual media — and she is also Director of Temple University’s Master of Journalism Program.",
      "links": {},
      "type": "person"
    },
    {
      "id": 78250,
      "company": "Reynolds Journalism Institute, University of Missouri School of Journalism",
      "credential_types": [
        "innovation"
      ],
      "entity_id": 2239218,
      "name": "Marie De Jesús",
      "speaker_types": [
        "Speaker"
      ],
      "title": "Director, Pictures Of The Year International",
      "image": {
        "alt_text": "Marie De Jesús",
        "credit": null,
        "url": "https://images.sxsw.com/3w0sHDZn8IA2_QqF4Z-M-Fhw8KU=/0x0:2000x2000/600x600/images.sxsw.com/48/cd7d2df7-a5c7-413a-abf0-7ed4e2122b0f/pcid-1623451"
      },
      "speaker_type": "Speaker",
      "details": "Marie D. De Jesús is the director of Pictures of the Year International (POY) and co-director of College Photographer of the Year (CPOY),  a founding member of the Houston Landing and the organization's first director of photography. She was previously a senior staff photojournalist for the Houston Chronicle, where she concentrated on developing relationships with Houston's diverse communities. In 2022, Marie became the first woman of color to serve as the national president of the National Press Photographers Association.\nAlong with several Chronicle colleagues, she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the team category of Public Service in 2017 and is a winner of the staff award for Public Service Award from the Scripps Howard Foundation in 2017.",
      "links": {},
      "type": "person"
    },
    {
      "id": 78234,
      "company": "Adobe",
      "credential_types": [
        "innovation"
      ],
      "entity_id": 2239201,
      "name": "Coleen Jose",
      "speaker_types": [
        "Speaker"
      ],
      "title": "Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Content Authenticity",
      "image": {
        "alt_text": "Coleen Jose",
        "credit": null,
        "url": "https://images.sxsw.com/bwIhl2rX-zaDUVGuVPvtx-4k0uo=/10x130:686x806/600x600/images.sxsw.com/48/2ff3f9e0-cda9-47fb-8b0f-cbad6458ee83/pcid-1623437"
      },
      "speaker_type": "Speaker",
      "details": "Coleen Jose is a creative strategist and technologist with a background in tech and investigative journalism. At Adobe, she leads product marketing and storytelling for the Content Authenticity Initiative. Previously, she was a Community Editor at Instagram, supporting content creation and driving discovery to global, interest-based communities. As a journalist, her work involved long-form and award-winning multimedia projects covering stories on climate change to the aftermath of armed conflict. She is deeply invested in the role and responsibility of platforms and creative products in empowering creativity and shaping a more informed society.",
      "links": {},
      "type": "person"
    }
  ],
  "venue": {
    "accessible": false,
    "age_policy": null,
    "floor": "4",
    "id": "V0376",
    "indoor_outdoor": "INDOOR",
    "mixhalo_url": "https://translate.mixhalo.rocks/?venue_id=429&partner=true",
    "name": "Salon D",
    "parent_id": "V0365",
    "parent_venue_name": "Hilton Austin Downtown",
    "venue_entry_info": null,
    "formats": null,
    "location": {
      "address": "500 E 4th St.",
      "lat_lon": [
        30.2651364,
        -97.7381904
      ],
      "city": "Austin",
      "postal_code": "78701",
      "state": "TX",
      "name": "Hilton Austin Downtown"
    },
    "root": {
      "id": "V0365",
      "name": "Hilton Austin Downtown",
      "mixhalo_url": null
    },
    "events": "[omitted 5 venue events]"
  },
  "description": "Synthetic media (AI-generated photo and video) increasingly undermines public trust in news imagery at a time when democratic resilience depends on accurate, verifiable information. This panel unpacks the adaptation of “radical” transparency as a tool for re-establishing public trust and cultivating audience literacy in the face of AI’s growing influence. Visual journalists and strategists will tackle how to establish image integrity in an AI-saturated world; why robust attribution and transparency is a key path forward in rebuilding public trust and is a news sustainability practice.",
  "experience_level": "Beginner",
  "audio_url": null,
  "accessibility": [
    "Closed captioned"
  ],
  "accessible_venue": false,
  "add_bcl_url": false,
  "add_slido": false,
  "after_midnight": null,
  "age_policy": null,
  "american_sign_language": false,
  "apple_url": null,
  "audio_description": false,
  "caption_url": null,
  "captioned_qa": false,
  "closed_captioned": true,
  "cpe_credit": false,
  "event_status": "none",
  "has_subtitles": false,
  "hash_tags": [],
  "high_sensory_experience": false,
  "live": false,
  "long_description": "Synthetic media (AI-generated photo and video) increasingly undermines public trust in news imagery at a time when democratic resilience depends on accurate, verifiable information. This panel unpacks the adaptation of “radical” transparency as a tool for re-establishing public trust and cultivating audience literacy in the face of AI’s growing influence. Visual journalists and strategists will tackle how to establish image integrity in an AI-saturated world; why robust attribution and transparency is a key path forward in rebuilding public trust and is a news sustainability practice.",
  "meeting_url": null,
  "meeting_url_live": false,
  "mentorly_url": null,
  "mobile_audio_url": null,
  "open_captioned": false,
  "playlist_tag": null,
  "rebroadcast": false,
  "recommended_ids": [],
  "search_conversions": null,
  "short_program": false,
  "slido_url": null,
  "sort": "PROTECTING VISUAL STORYTELLING: TOOLS FOR RADICAL TRANSPARENCY IN A POST-TRUTH ERA",
  "source": "Official",
  "squad_up_url": null,
  "stream_embed": null,
  "stream_id": null,
  "stream_url": null,
  "strobe_warning": false,
  "subdiscipline": null,
  "summit": null,
  "summit_display_name": null,
  "tags": [
    {
      "id": 950,
      "name": "Storytelling",
      "created_at": "2016-11-04T11:43:51.305-05:00",
      "updated_at": "2024-02-05T16:58:21.488-06:00",
      "sort": "STORYTELLING",
      "alpha": "S"
    },
    {
      "id": 2114,
      "name": "Ai",
      "created_at": "2020-01-17T14:51:44.091-06:00",
      "updated_at": "2026-02-18T15:48:17.273-06:00",
      "sort": "AI",
      "alpha": "A"
    }
  ],
  "talent_attending": null,
  "title_only": false,
  "track_display_name": "Culture",
  "trailer_id": null,
  "trailer_url": null,
  "video_on_demand": null,
  "vimeo_id": null,
  "vod": false,
  "xr_project_type": null,
  "youtube_id": null,
  "related_events": [],
  "related_sales_client": null
}