Hi all, The Call for Participation for the Computation + Journalism 2026 Symposium<https://www.cj2026.northwestern.edu/cfp/> is out! The event will be held on October 2-3rd 2026 in Evanston, IL, USA. C+J<https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23cj2026&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED> is a space for anyone working at or curious about the intersection between journalists, news, and technology. The conference features a unique mix of practicing journalists, including freelancers, data journalists, and engineers in newsrooms or working on news-related products; and academics working in fields like computational social science, communication, human-computer interaction, digital humanities, and more. Audiences today often get information from chatbots, influencers, and AI-generated summaries rather than directly from news outlets, threatening the reach and relevance of traditional newsrooms. Through this year’s theme, "News Beyond the Newsroom,” we invite you to rethink the role that newsrooms occupy within the broader and changing information ecosystem. We welcome all submissions related to computation and journalism, but particularly those that engage with the theme. Key deadlines Submission deadline: June 29th, 2026 Decisions released: August 10th, 2026 Conference dates: October 2nd-3rd, 2026 Event Website https://www.cj2026.northwestern.edu/cfp/ Submission Formats We invite participation in the form of short papers, contributed talks, or workshop proposals. Accepted submissions will be presented in a format (e.g., presentations, posters, etc.) decided by the conference committee, based on space and program fit. Submit your proposal at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cj2026 Short Paper As in past years, you are invited to submit a short academic-style paper for review. These submissions should be up to five pages (not including references). The format should use the 2-column ACM Conference Proceedings Primary Article Template (see: Overleaf <https://www.overleaf.com/gallery/tagged/acm-official#.WOuOk2e1taQ> , Latex <https://portalparts.acm.org/hippo/latex_templates/acmart-primary.zip> , and Word <https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/word_style/interim-template-style/interim-layout.docx> templates). Submissions should not be anonymized, should include a short abstract and keywords, and do not need to include CSS concepts, copyright information, or an ACM reference format. The C+J 2026 online proceedings will be linked on our conference site, but should be considered “non-archival” for the sake of journal submissions elsewhere. At the same time, we highly encourage unique and novel contributions with limited overlap with related publications the author may have or intend to publish. We understand that authors may be using a plethora of generative AI tools throughout the research, reporting, and tool building process. While we do not want to prohibit anyone from using these tools in their work, we will ask all authors to submit a brief (~100 words) generative AI disclosure statement, and remind authors they are responsible for the work they submit. This statement will be a separate field in the submission form, and will not count towards the page limit. If you are thinking through your usage of generative AI, we recommend checking out https://llm-checklist.com/ for an in-depth checklist, and https://aidframework.org<https://aidframework.org/> to look at options for a disclosure statement. Contributed Talk You are invited to propose a contributed talk with an abstract of at most 250 words. This submission format is most appropriate for practitioners wishing to share non-academic perspectives or researchers wishing to speak on a particular opinion. Workshop You are invited to propose a contributed workshop with an abstract of at most 250 words. We encourage workshops that tackle hands-on training relevant to journalists or researchers, and more discussion-oriented workshops that focus on a specific topic of interest. Best, Marianne Aubin Le Quéré on behalf of the C+J 2026 Organizing Team