Christopher Meighan, director for digital news design and presentation, emerging news products, at The Washington Post, gave delegates an insight into the outlet’s digital innovation in his keynote speech at the recent news:rewired conference. Meighan outlined the Post’s approach to making news for the mobile and tablet apps, as well as its Apple Watch presence, and the […]
How newsrooms use open-source tech to build in-house tools
Although the news industry is typically characterized as fiercely competitive, the philosophy of the open source movement is encouraging The Times and The Sunday Times, BBC News Labs, and The Wall Street Journal to make their newsroom tools available to others in the industry.
As it happened: How can robot journalists help the media?
News outlets have started experimenting with the process of automation in the newsroom. But how much resource goes into building such algorithms and is it really worth the investment, particularly for smaller or local publishers?
DJA manager Marianne Bouchart’s guide to sourcing data
“The term data journalist is a bit of a jack-of-all-trade term,” Marianne Bouchart told delegates this afternoon at the news:rewired conference in London. “Some call us computer-assisted reporter, journalist programmer, journo geek… unicorns. It varies.” Bouchart is communications director and Data Journalism Award Manager at the Global Editors Network – and the founder of Hei-Da.org, a […]
As it happened: Building the news – in-house tools for the newsroom
News organisations are increasingly developing their own tools in-house to improve the way they tell stories. This session of the news:rewired conference, in London, looked at the resources needed, the collaborative approach between developers and journalists and the open-source movement.
Why the documentary is making a comeback with younger audiences
Sandra Gaudenzi, of IF Lab, the moderator of news:rewired’s panel on long-form video for the mobile generation, said industry specialists talked about documentaries as a dying form, but the reality was that journalists were now talking about the demand for long-form documentaries – and the genre is hip in a way that no one predicted only […]
As it happened: The bigger picture – putting news into context
The amount of information now available on the web means news organisations have to provide context to ongoing or breaking news stories, in a way that goes beyond a list of related stories.
As it happened: International investigations session
Many of the biggest stories in the last few years were sourced from international investigations. What does it take to complete a cross-borders project and what can media organisations learn from those doing these types of projects on a regular basis?
Chat apps: an exciting new platform for news providers
Trushar Barot worked on the launch of the world’s first news service for the WhatsApp platform during the 2014 Indian elections and also on the award-winning Ebola ‘lifeline’ WhatsApp information service. If anyone knows anything about the closing gap between news organisations and chat apps, it’s Trushar. Now, he’s the mobile editor for the BBC World Service Group and has […]
As it happened: Telling stories with data
How can journalists find stories in data and how can they present these stories in an engaging way? This workshop session at the news:rewired conference, in London, looked into the matter…