One of the sessions at news:rewired – media in motion will look at the latest trends in online video journalism. This post has links to inspire ahead of the conference
Ten examples of games used to tell news stories
One of the sessions at news:rewired – media in motion will explore newsgames and gaming mechanics used in journalism
#newsrw buzz: Round-up of blog posts from news:rewired – connected journalism
A round-up of some of the blogs posts written by delegates and speakers at Journalism.co.uk conference news:rewired – connected journalism, which was held at MSN’s London offices on Thursday, 6 October
This post includes links to session summaries, reflective blog posts and videos
Nieman: The NYT joins with YouTube and Storyful for 9/11 video reflections
The New York Times is collaborating with YouTube and curation platform Storyful in a bid to collect videos from the public answering questions about what 9/11 meant to them
news:rewired – noise to signal: what the delegates thought
We catch up with some of the delegates at the end of the latest news:rewired event – noise to signal, to ask them what they thought of the line-up, what they will take away from the sessions, and how they will follow up on some of the lessons from the day
#newsrw: 12 tips on tools in the data journalist’s toolkit
Speakers at news:rewired spoke about a number of tools designed to help journalists make the most out of their data stories. Here we have listed the 12 key recommendations chosen by panelists
#newsrw: A round-up of the best blogs from news:rewired – noise to signal
We’ve rounded up some of the best coverage of news:rewired from speakers and delegates alike and collected it together in one handy post.
Speaker Nicola Hughes – DataMinerUK has written a detailed summary of her talk in the sorting the social media chaos session, complete with tips on her favourite journalism tools.
On the Reuters Blog Mark Jones, who spoke in the social media strategy session, used Storify to round up Tweets, pictures and text from across the day.
And RBI’s Adam Tinworth heroically liveblogged every session he was in. Including the liveblogging session.
For all this and more, continue reading…
#newsrw: ‘There is no point in having data unless you have context to go with it’
Open data is essential, but useless without context – that was the consensus at the local data session. A lively debate took place, where delegates heard from a range of speakers and their attempts to fill the niche in local data, creating “open data cities” and encouraging transparency
Links: Session 1A – the data journalism toolkit
A collection of links relating to all elements of the data journalism toolkit session, including blog posts and useful resources that will help you on your way to finding relevant datasets, cleaning them up and preparing to tell a story