October 2011
Steve Herrmann, editor of BBC News, told Journalism.co.uk’s news:rewired – connected journalism conference, held today (Thursday, 6 October) at MSN HQ in London that the news site currently generates 6.2 million click-throughs a month to external sources
BBC News is on target to double the number of links to external sources by 2013, a target set by the director general
The Undergrad from WannabeHacks Natalie Clarkson talks about her top ten lessons learnt from covering news:rewired – connected journalism
We have been busy collecting together tweets, audio, images and presentations from the day’s events to give you a comprehensive round-up of news:rewired – connected journalism.
See the Storify in this post to catch up on the debate.
Steve Herrmann, editor, BBC News Online; Anthony De Rosa, social media editor, Reuters, Duncan Hooper, managing editor, news and sport, MSN UK and Momoko Price, communications director, BuzzData discuss key issues, including adopting a ‘digital first’ mentality, the values and standards of the link-economy and the role and responsibilities of journalists and news organisation as active members of the open-web community.
This session is moderated by the BBC’s media correspondent, Torin Douglas
Image by Arthur40A on Flickr. Some rights reserved.
Moderated by Torin Douglas, media correspondent, BBC.
Iain Overton, managing editor, Bureau of Investigative Journalism; Simon Perry, founder, Ventnor Blog; Paul Lewis, special projects editor, the Guardian and Christine Spolar, investigations and special projects editor, the Financial Times discuss how collaboration is key for the future of investigative journalism
Image by Holger Zscheyge on Flickr. Some tights reserved.
Carla Buzasi, editor-in-chief, the Huffington Post UK; Dominique van Heerden, digital producer, CNN; Chris Hamilton, social media editor, BBC News and Ed Barrow, chief technical officer, idio discuss how they are opening their doors to citizen journalism, bloggers and third-party opinion
Image by Tawheed Manzoor on Flickr. Some rights reserved.
Charlie Beckett, founding director of POLIS, the journalism and society think-tank at the London School of Economics delivered the keynote speech at today’s news:rewired – connected journalism conference
Beckett, who has previously worked as programme editor for Channel 4 News and the BBC, explained why it is an exciting time to be a journalist
Turi Munthe, founder, Demotix; Philip Trippenbach, editor-in-chief, Citizenside; Rick Waghorn, founder, Addiply; and Henry Peirse, CEO and founder of GRN discuss their business models
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Xavier Damman, co-founder, Storify; Adam Westbrook, online video journalist and lecturer and blogger; Stephen Abbott, executive producer, culture, the Guardian; and Andy Cotgreave, senior product consultant, Tableau Software discuss how journalists can use different tools for online storytelling
A slideshow of pictures taken by photographer Mark Hakansson at news:rewired – connected journalism
There will be more pictures, videos, audio and blog posts added throughout the day
Follow #newsrw on Twitter for updates from some of the the 180 people who are at the conference
