“A very interesting conference, very enjoyable, and gave me lots of ideas and new contacts, thanks :)” Helen Roxburgh, multimedia reporter, Estates Gazette, Reed Business Information “Extremely informative, great speakers, feel like I have really learnt a lot today about multimedia journalism and social media.” Natasha Elkington, AlertNet journalist, Thomson Reuters Foundation “Another stonking event: […]
news:rewired gets Kinect-ed just for delegates
It’s launch is undoubtedly part of the future of gaming – and we like to push the boundaries at news:rewired events, so we’re pleased to announce that delegates at our beyond the story event will have the opportunity to try out Microsoft’s latest release for the Xbox, Kinect
news:rewired proudly announces live journalism platform ScribbleLive as a sponsor
With only two weeks left until news:rewired – beyond the story we are happy to announce live journalism Platform ScribbleLive as gold sponsor for the event.
Get a free headshot at news:rewired – beyond the story with iStockphoto
Delegates attending news:rewired – beyond the story later this month can snap up a free professional headshot on the day thanks to iStockphoto.
Prizes worth £1000 up for grabs in the #newsrw QR code challenge!
We’re offering three news:rewired delegates the chance to win a copy of QuarkXPress 8, Sony noise-cancelling headphones and a bottle of champagne each, worth a £1000 in total. Read more about the prizes and our news:rewired QR code competition
Thoughts from our speakers: The Guardian’s Martin Belam on linked data
In the final two weeks before news:rewired we’ll be publishing some thoughts from our speakers on the subject of their session. We asked Guardian information architect Martin Belam about linked data and how it relates to his own work
Announcing the #newsrw QR Code Challenge
On Thursday 16 December news:rewired is running its next journalism event. During the day you will get to hear from industry leaders and those at the edges of innovation in all forms of news media and also have the opportunity to network with media representatives from a range of organisations. But that is not all.
Links: the digital production desk – more platforms, more potential?
We’re back with more links and resources around some of the discussion topics planned for news:rewired – beyond the story. In this post we’ve collected some tips and articles of interest relating to the digital production desk session, which features speakers Jonathan Richards, Martin Stabe and Vicky Taylor, discussing: the move to digital platforms and production desks; the new tools and opportunities on offer and also how to apply traditional skills to the new media environment.
Introducing new speakers for news:rewired – beyond the story
We’ve been adding new speakers to our agenda for news:rewired – beyond the story over the past few weeks. In case you missed the changes, here’s who is joining us.
Links: Gaming and journalism – what can we learn?
The final session of news:rewired – beyond the story will look at how elements of computer, video and social gaming could be used by journalists and media organisations. We want to get you thinking about how gaming technologies, storytelling techniques and relationships between games and their players might be incorporated into journalism.
It might not be something you’ve thought about before, but there’s already some pretty interesting research and blog posts being written on the subject, which we’ve rounded up.