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Charlie Beckett, founding director of POLIS, the journalism and society think-tank at the London School of Economics delivered the keynote speech at today’s news:rewired – connected journalism conference
Beckett, who has previously worked as programme editor for Channel 4 News and the BBC, explained why it is an exciting time to be a journalist
Turi Munthe, founder, Demotix; Philip Trippenbach, editor-in-chief, Citizenside; Rick Waghorn, founder, Addiply; and Henry Peirse, CEO and founder of GRN discuss their business models
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Xavier Damman, co-founder, Storify; Adam Westbrook, online video journalist and lecturer and blogger; Stephen Abbott, executive producer, culture, the Guardian; and Andy Cotgreave, senior product consultant, Tableau Software discuss how journalists can use different tools for online storytelling
A slideshow of pictures taken by photographer Mark Hakansson at news:rewired – connected journalism
There will be more pictures, videos, audio and blog posts added throughout the day
Follow #newsrw on Twitter for updates from some of the the 180 people who are at the conference
Helje Solberg, executive editor, VG; Karl Schneider, head of editorial development, Reed Business Information; and James Weeks, executive producer, new media, Sky News discuss some of the opportunities for integration and collaboration within the newsroom, from innovative ways to combine and connect departments to new ideas for collaboration between journalists and other digital roles
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Laura Oliver, community coordinator, news, the Guardian; Kate Day, social media and engagement editor, the Telegraph and Cathy Ma, head of social media, IPC Media discuss how to keep your audience engaged
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A welcome address from executive producer of MSN Pete Clifton and Charlie Beckett, founding director of POLIS gives the news:rewired – connected journalism keynote speech
Photo by Nigel Stead, London School of Economics
Keep up to date with what is happening at news:rewired – connected journalism on Thursday, 6 October on Twitter, SoundCloud and on the news:rewired blog
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We have created a Wordle to show the companies news:rewired – connected journalism delegates are coming from.
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Ahead of news:rewired next week, here are some links to relevant reading for session 2A. The session will look at the ways journalists can take advantage of free online tools to break out of relying on the standard article format for news and features, and when and for what stories different tools are appropriate.
When should you curate other people’s content? When should you liveblog? When should you create a audio slideshow, visualisation, or video package?
