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
Five curation tools all journalists should know about
Ahead of the integrated storytelling session at newsrewired – connected journalism we’ve pulled together just five examples of the tools and platforms available to journalists to help them pull in content from across the web.
On the day of the event (6 October) Xavier Damman, the co-founder of Storify, perhaps one of the most popular curation tools, will be appearing to speak about the possibilities the platform offers.
You can buy tickets, which cost £130+VAT, here.
Announcing news:rewired – connected journalism, 6 October 2011
Journalism.co.uk’s next news:rewired event will take place on 6 October at MSN’s London offices in Victoria.
news:rewired – connected journalism will look at the latest opportunities for collaboration in the newsroom given the evolution of new digital journalism roles, and how reporters can work with the wider community to improve, fund and find the journalism of the future.
Buy tickets here at the price of £130 (+VAT).
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: 10 tips for using social media as a news gathering tool
Social media has become an essential newsgathering tool for journalists. Here we look at the top 10 tips and tools to make the most out of web
Speaker presentations: Session 1B – Sorting the social media chaos
This post offers presentations from Session 1B – Sorting the social media chaos featuring: Nicola Hughes, data journalist, Data Miner UK; Alex Gubbay, social media editor, BBC News; Neal Mann, freelance field producer, Sky News and Fergus Bell, senior producer, Associated Press. Moderated by Suw Charman-Anderson, social technologist.
#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
Speaker presentations: Session 1A – The data journalism toolkit
Here are the presentations from Session 1A – ‘The data journalism toolkit’, with Kevin Anderson, data journalism trainer and digital strategist; James Ball, data journalist, Guardian investigations team ; Martin Stabe, interactive producer, FT.com. Simon Rogers; editor, Guardian datablog and datastore. Moderated by David Hayward, head of journalism programme, BBC College of Journalism
#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: ‘We know more now than we ever have’ about our audience
Knowledge of the audience helps news organisations develop products, from enhancing interaction with newsletters with motive, short headlines, to improved feedback. The results discovered by the panel in the knowing your audience session at news:rewired, was increased traffic and better products