Talks
You can find me at panels and conferences around the world speaking about the intersection of media, young people and social impact, and about how I founded my social-first outlet Almost.
FIPP Congress 2024
NextGen DIY Media: From news avoidance
to news maker
Egypt Media Forum 2023
Instagram for News Stories
#IGWORKSHOP 2019 by Instagram
#IGMovieNight by Instagram
Creative Vertical Storytelling
INMA World Congress 2024
Navigating News Avoidance and Shifting Habits While Nurturing Hope and Diversity
TRT World Next 2023
The New Frontier: How AI is Revolutionising Media Content
Hacks/Hackers London
Reaching New And Diverse Audiences On Instagram
NewsXChange 2018
New Ways Of Telling Stories And Engaging New Audiences On Instagram
Workshops & Masterclasses
You can also find me teaching journalists, students, education professionals and activists on how to make news for social media in a fast-changing digital landscape.
Making News Videos For TikTok
A masterclass for Newcastle University’s Civic Journalism Lab about how to plan, create and share news TikToks. You can watch the masterclass on YouTube.
How To Change Narratives Using Social Media
A strategic communications workshop at Transparency International’s Transparency School 2021 focused on how activists can use social media to change narratives.
Creating Shareable News Videos for Social Media: Mobile Edition
A two-week course teaching journalists, newsmakers and content creators how to create engaging news videos for social media platforms such as TikTok and Instagram for Journalism.co.uk.
How To Make Videos For Social Media
A workshop about creating social media videos for activism at Megaphone 2020, a conference for activists, action groups and NGOs organized by TechSoup Europe.
(Nov. 2020)
Press
You can read or listen to my interviews, and find out more about why I think news publishers need to reach young audiences, how we engage them and what I’m doing at Almost.
Kassy Cho on how she built Almost, an Instagram-first media startup for young people in Taiwan – Splice Pink Podcast
Bringing News in Chinese to the Instagram Generation – China Media Project
Why BuzzFeed is tailoring hard news for Instagram with @World – The Drum
How to use social-native storytelling to break and cover news on Instagram – Journalism.co.uk
Why do news publishers struggle to embrace TikTok? – Journalism.co.uk
Journalists Turn To TikTok – NUJ’s The Journalist
Filling the Gaza Info Gap – China Media Project
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