October 2012 - newsrewired

Collection of tips, articles and resources on news site design and user experience

October 31, 2012 Event news, Featured Posts Leave a Comment

On Thursday 6 December Journalism.co.uk will be running its next digital journalism conference, news:rewired – digital stories. One of the sessions planned for the day will look at site design, user experience and news readability, with speakers including Martin Belam, principal consultant, Emblem; Grig Davidovitz, co-founder, RGB Media; Kate Ortega, deputy graphics editor, The Wall Street Journal and Marc Downer, user experience consultant, Adido.

Ahead of the conference we’ve compiled some related reading (and listening) for delegates interested in learning more about user experiences in digital news, the approaches being taken by some news outlets and what recent research has revealed.

More lightning round projects to be presented at news:rewired – digital stories

October 30, 2012 Event news, Featured Posts Leave a Comment

We recently announced four of the projects to be presented at news:rewired – digital stories on Thursday 6 December during two lightning rounds, which will be dedicated to hearing about some of the latest innovations in the digital journalism world.

They included:

– Talk About Local Augmented Reality
– Storination
– Ocqur
– Social Sensor

We now have three more projects to announce, which will also be presented in the lightning rounds on the day.

Reddit Eddit. Speaker: Benji Lanyado
Interactive Newsprint. Speaker: Paul Egglestone, University of Central Lancashire
Webcrumbz. Speaker: Ciprian Borodescu

Announcing CoveritLive as latest sponsor of news:rewired – digital stories

October 30, 2012 Event news, Featured Posts Leave a Comment

We are pleased to announce liveblogging platform CoveritLive as the latest sponsor of news:rewired – digital stories, Journalism.co.uk’s next digital journalism conference.

The one-day event, which takes place on Thursday 6 December at MSN UK’s offices in Victoria, will be geared towards equipping delegates with knowledge of the latest techniques and tools for producing top-notch digital journalism, as well as offering insight into some of the innovative projects evolving within today’s newsrooms, and outside of them.

Demand Media’s senior director and general manager for CoveritLive, Ben Schneider, will be joining the liveblogging workshop at news:rewired – digital stories, where he will share top tips for liveblogging success and making the most of the platform.

There are still tickets available for news:rewired, but be quick as the event usually sells out. Tickets for the one-day conference can be purchased at this link for just £130 (+VAT). Lunch and refreshments will also be provided, as well as networking drinks afterwards.

There is also a news:rewired PLUS ticket option for just £310 (+VAT), which includes both a day’s intensive training on the Wednesday (5 December) and the day-long conference on the Thursday (6 December). Delegates can choose one of three options for the day of intensive training: Introduction to Data Journalism, run by Paul Bradshaw; Online Media Law, run by David Banks or Advanced Online Research Skills, run by Colin Meek. You can buy either of these tickets at this link.

Announcing Adido as latest sponsor of news:rewired – digital stories

October 29, 2012 Event news, Featured Posts Leave a Comment

Award-winning digital agency Adido are the latest sponsor of digital journalism conference news:rewired – digital stories, which takes place on Thursday 6 December.

Adido’s user experience consultant Marc Downer will join the user experience panel at news:rewired – digital stories, to discuss the ways users interact with news on mobile devices, including a look at factors such as “the bailout point” and “keeping the finger happy”, as discussed in a recent eye-tracking study from Poynter.

Tickets for news:rewired are selling fast, but there are still some available which can be purchased at this link for just £130 (+VAT). Lunch and refreshments will also be provided at the day-long event, as well as networking drinks afterwards.

There is also a news:rewired PLUS ticket option for just £310 (+VAT), which includes both a day’s intensive training on the Wednesday (5 December) and the day-long conference on the Thursday (6 December). Delegates can choose one of two options for the day of intensive training: Introduction to Data Journalism, run by Paul Bradshaw or Online Media Law, run by David Banks.

Announcing the first collection of lightning round projects to be presented at news:rewired – digital stories

October 22, 2012 Event news, Featured Posts Leave a Comment

When we announced the first details for news:rewired – digital stories, we mentioned plans to run a lightning round of short presentations from innovators in the digital journalism space.

We’re now pleased to announce just some of the projects to be presented on the day across two planned lighting rounds, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, at the one-day conference on Thursday 6 December (see the agenda here).

Tickets are still available for the conference, buy yours here for just £130 +VAT, or £310 (+VAT) for a news:rewired plus ticket, which includes a day’s intensive training on Wednesday 5 December as well as the day-long conference on Thursday 6 December.

The first projects include:
– Augmented Reality. Speaker: Sarah Hartley, managing director, Talk About Local
– Storination. Speaker: François Laforestrie, chief executive
– Ocqur. Speaker: Joseph Stashko, operations director
– Social Sensor. Speaker: Nic Newman, digital strategist

Announcing Scoopshot as the latest sponsor of news:rewired – digital stories

October 16, 2012 Event news, Featured Posts Leave a Comment

We’re pleased to announce Finnish mobile photo service Scoopshot as the latest sponsor of news:rewired – digital stories, which takes place on Thursday 6 December.

The one-day conference will bring together key digital journalism experts and innovators for a day of sessions, workshops, debates and discussion, geared towards equipping delegates with knowledge of the latest techniques and tools for producing top-notch digital journalism.

Tickets are still available for the conference for just £130 (+VAT). Lunch and refreshments will also be provided at the day-long event, as well as networking drinks afterwards.

There is also a news:rewired PLUS ticket option for just £310 (+VAT), which includes both a day’s intensive training on the Wednesday (5 December) and the day-long conference on the Thursday (6 December).

news:rewired – digital stories, Thursday 6 December, at MSN UK, London

October 2, 2012 Event news, Featured Posts, Headline Leave a Comment

The next news:rewired digital journalism conference will take place on Thursday 6 December at MSN UK in Victoria, London. (Cardinal Place, 100 Victoria Street, London, SW1E 5JL).

news:rewired – digital stories will bring together key digital journalism experts and innovators for a day of sessions, workshops, debates and discussion, geared towards equipping you with knowledge of the latest techniques and tools for producing top-notch digital journalism, as well as offering insight into some of the innovative projects evolving within today’s newsrooms – and outside of them.

news:rewired: Delegates can purchase a ticket for the one-day conference for just £130 (+VAT). Lunch and refreshments will also be provided at the day-long event, as well as networking drinks afterwards.

news:rewired PLUS: With this new option delegates can instead purchase one of our news:rewired PLUS tickets for just £310 (+VAT), which includes both a day’s intensive training on the Wednesday (5 December) and the day-long conference on the Thursday (6 December).

Posts published in October 2012