The evening before the next newsrewired conference, Journalism.co.uk will be hosting networking drinks at the Amber Bar in London.

The event is open to all journalists who wish to attend, whether or not they will join us at the conference, and will give newsrewired delegates the change to network with each other and get to know London-based journalists if travelling to the conference from other parts of the UK or from abroad.

The networking drinks are informal, with no presentations or dress code – just a chance to chat to other media industry professionals.

Every newsrewired event is designed with practical learning at its core, and with that in mind, we are pleased to be able to announce the three courses we’ll be running on the day following our upcoming conference in February. The main conference takes place on 8 February at Reuters in Canary Wharf, London, featuring speakers […]

As a growing number of pictures and videos are posted online from members of the public, eyewitness media is becoming an important part of the newsgathering operations in many newsrooms. But as a still emerging newsgathering technique in many organisations, sourcing, verifying and licensing eyewitness media can be a tricky operation.

We’re pleased to announce social media newswire Storyful will be sponsoring our next newsrewired digital journalism conference, which takes place on 20 July in London.

Founded in 2010 and based in Dublin, Ireland, Storyful comprises a team of technologists and journalists across Asia, Europe and the United States who discover, verify, acquire and distribute timely and relevant video and user-generated content to newsrooms, advertisers and brands.

Storyful journalist Eoghan Sweeney will be joining our closing panel, “Best practices for working with eyewitness media on social networks”, alongside Rachel Rodriguez, social media producer, CNN International, George Sargent, social media producer, Reuters, and Hazel Baker, digital news editor, Sky News.

Livestreaming on social networks has been growing in popularity since Periscope launched last year, and with Facebook’s introduction of live video streaming, publishers can now reach new and existing audiences on the platform through this new format. Live interactions with viewers through comments and the raw, unedited style livestreaming from a smartphone can bring to videos make this format an interesting proposition for media organisations – an opportunity, but a potentially difficult one to put into practice. Not to mention that Facebook is keen on getting more live video on the platform, giving it prominence in the news feed.

So how do you get people to stop scrolling and watch your Facebook Lives? And when you do get them to start watching, how do you get them to stay?

Journalism.co.uk is pleased to announce Karla Geci, strategic partnerships, Facebook EMEA, will share key insights and advice about how journalists can use Facebook Live to produce engaging live streams and reach a wider audience, in a practical workshop at newsrewired on 20 July.