December 2012
news:rewired, the one-day digital journalism conference from Journalism.co.uk, will return next year on Friday 19 April, to MSN UK’s offices in Victoria, London.
The day will look at emerging trends and new tools and techniques being used in the digital journalism space in 2013.
We will be announcing more details soon. Tickets are already on sale at this link.
The people at the new social media discovery and analysis tool Flumes have created an infographic based on the social media buzz around news:rewired – digital stories, which took place on Thursday 6 December.
Take a look at the infographic to find out who the influential tweeters were, and a snapshot of the most shared content.
One of the sessions at news:rewired – digital stories looked at some useful apps and ideas for using a mobile phone for reporting. Speakers also shared some of the interesting initiatives from news outlets in the mobile space.
Speakers were: Eric Siereveld, vice president, Scoopshot; Neil McIntosh, deputy editor, Europe, Wall Street Journal; Marc Settle, project producer at the BBC College of Journalism specialising in mobile journalism; Nick Garnett, North of England correspondent, BBC 5 Live. The session was moderated by Kevin Anderson, editor and digital strategist, Knowledge Bridge, Media Development Loan Fund.
The user experience session at news:rewired – digital stories looked the values of digital news design which will help to draw in readers and keep them engaged, the importance of news readability, site journeys and how to ensure returning audiences. The panel included: Martin Belam, principal consultant, Emblem; Grig Davidovitz, co-founder, RGB Media; Kate Ortega, […]
Copies of presentations from the liveblogging workshop at news:rewired – digital stories, on Thursday 6 December, featured talks from Neil Macdonald, head of web and data development, Trinity Mirror in Merseyside, Seb Ramsay, hub news editor, Manchester Evening News and Ben Schneider, senior director and general manager, Demand Media, CoveritLive.
A copy of the presentation delivered in the Twitter reporting workshop at news:rewired – digital stories on Thursday 6 December, as led by Anna Doble, head of online, Channel 4 News and Jenny Rigby, social media and special projects producer, Channel 4 News.
The first panel session at news:rewired – digital stories looked at the ways journalists can find conversations taking place on various social media platforms, discover news leads and tune in to audience reactions.
The panel consisted of: Ian Barber, senior developer advocate, Google+; Katie Rogers, social news editor, Guardian US; Dave Wyllie, editor, BreakingNews.com; Catriona Oldershaw, UK managing director, Synthesio. It was moderated by Gabrielle Laine-Peters, social media consultant.
Presentations and coverage of the news:rewired session on long-form digital journalism.
The speakers were: Bobbie Johnson, co-founder, Matter; Alex Miller, executive editor of VICE UK; Simon Frantz, deputy editor of BBC Future, a project from the commercial arm of the BBC; Patrick Hussey, digital lead, Aeon magazine. It was moderated by Kathryn Corrick, training business manager, Open Data Institute.
Copies of presentations delivered during the visual storytelling session at news:rewired – digital stories, which looked at the range of techniques and tools being harnessed by news outlets on their sites and across the social web, from the effective use of still images beyond the norm, through to graphics, interactives and visualisations
A Storify to collect together just some of the tweets, coverage and images produced during news:rewired – digital stories on 6 December
