Albertine Piels is the director of Hackastory. Last year she quit her job as an editor in chief at the Dutch national news station RTLZ to focus on Hackastory, where she works with coders every day. This new love story is shocking, at times frustrating, exhilarating and pleasantly mind boggling. In this spotlight talk at […]
Representative media: ‘when you meet people face-to-face, you can do much more’
From the outside local and national news outlets seem like very different organisations – but aren’t their challenges growing ever similar? If so, then what can they do to improve levels of public trust, connect with real people, and improve the quality of the work they produce? During a session of at the newsrewired conference, in […]
As it happened: audio in the age of social media
The first afternoon session of the newsrewired conference, in London today, asked if radio can go viral and how journalists can make audio more engaging online. This is the archived live blog of the session.
Keynote: Mobile is dominant in readers’ lives, so why aren’t we talking about it more?
Sasha Koren , editor of the Guardian Mobile Innovation Lab, opened the newsrewired conference, today (19 July) in London, by stressing the need for news publishers to continue to push the boundaries of journalism on mobile devices. Delivering the keynote address, Koren told delegates that mobile was dominant in the lives of news consumers, […]
As it happened: political journalism and election reflections
The third live session of the newsrewired conference, in London today, looked at whether there is a need for new approaches to political journalism and the way we cover elections. This is the archived live blog of the session…
As it happened: Representative media – community and local journalism
The second session of the News:rewired conference, in London today, looked at how larger media organisations are connecting with their audience on a local level, and what can they learn from local media. This is the archived live blog from the session… Normally, stores like Aldi’s will only open a couple times a year. They […]
As it happened: Mobile is dominant in readers’ lives. So why aren’t we talking about it more?
Those of us who spend our lives thinking about the future of news are not talking about mobile as much as we did a few years ago. Instead, we talk about big changes in social platforms, VR, chat bots and artificial intelligence – all of which are important and also have implications on mobile usage. […]
Don’t miss spotlight talks from BuzzSumo and CosaVostra tomorrow
Over the past week, we’ve added two Spotlight talks to the programme of our next newsrewired event, taking place on 19 July at Reuters in Canary Wharf, London. Tomorrow afternoon, delegates will be able to find out more about what makes an engaging headline for social media from BuzzSumo, and get advice for applying for […]
Coming to newsrewired on 19 July? Meet the exhibitors
Newsrewired has always highlighted the latest trends, techniques and tools for digital journalists, and in that spirit, we will be featuring four great services for individual journalists and media organisations at our next event in London on 19 July. In a world of too much content and information, everyone needs a good librarian. As such, […]
Speakers from the Guardian and Independent join elections panel
The Journalism.co.uk team has been hard at work making the final preparations for the newsrewired digital journalism conference, taking place at Reuters in London next week on 19 July. In between prepping the information sheets for delegates and the swag bags, we have also added two more speakers to our panel on election reporting and political journalism.
We are very happy to announce that Anushka Asthana, joint political editor, the Guardian, and Christian Broughton, editor, The Independent, will be joining a panel discussing election coverage, reporting on polls, and making political journalism more engaging, alongside Guy Faulconbridge, Reuters UK bureau chief, and Kate McCann, senior political correspondent at The Telegraph.