Maggie
Farley
Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, International Center for Journalists
Maggie Farley is the VP of Strategic Initiatives at the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), where she brings her experience as an award-winning journalist, tech trainer, and entrepreneur to ICFJ's mission of fostering news innovation worldwide. She is helping launch the Plus Hub, ICFJ+'s shared services resource that provides AI, tech, and strategic support to journalists and civic information providers.
As a former foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, she opened bureaus in Hong Kong and Shanghai and led the UN bureau. As a Google News Initiative trainer, Farley equipped thousands of journalists with digital tools to enhance their reporting. She was also a partner at a startup that created the top-10 educational app Lucky Grasshopper, and as a fellow at American University she explored how engagement design can make journalism more interactive and relevant, and developed developed the news judgment game Factitious.
