As part of an Associated Press Managing Editors’ (APME) training session, videojournalist and visualeditors CEO Robb Montgomery produced the video below on designing news applications for mobile, smartphones and tablets.
Q&A: Philip Trippenbach, freelance interactive producer
In our latest speaker Q&A we talk to freelance interactive producer Philip Trippenbach his work as a freelance interactive producer and about how video games are closely related to more traditional forms of journalism.
Q&A: Chris Taggart, developer, OpenlyLocal
We hear from Chris Taggart, founder and developer of OpenlyLocal, an online platform designed to open up local authority data.
David Amerland: Niche, SEO and the paywall debate
On Journalism.co.uk journalist and SEO expert David Amerland writes on the role of search engine optimisation (SEO) in the future of online publishing and paid-for news models.
“Newspapers and those who run them have not understood that online visitors to generalised news sites will pay not for the quality of the news, but for its convenience,” he writes…
Iain Hepburn: Podcasting, vodcasting and mobile journalism
Iain Hepburn, digital editor of the Scottish Daily Record and Sunday Mail (and delegate at our news:rewired event in January), shared his thoughts on mobile journalism and podcasting at a recent panel discussion on digital journalism at the Edinburgh Science Festival. A great starting point for our discussion of mobile for journalism and publishing at June’s news:rewired event.
The last news:rewired – what the delegates said
Feedback from news:rewired delegates on what they thought of the event
Must read: Marc Reeves on the future of niche publishing
Marc Reeves, former Birmingham Post editor and now editor of TheBusinessDesk.com West Midlands, has posted his thoughts on the problems facing the “old guard” and “new old guard” in when it comes to the future shape of the publishing and journalism industries, which are well worth a read at this link.
On the theme of our event on 25 June, the nouveau niche, Reeves explains how niche titles might fit in to this changing landscape.
How to: get the most from video reporting on events
Great advice for anyone covering news:rewired or other conferences related to their niche using video from Andy Plesser, executive producer at video news site Beet.tv.
Announcing news:rewired – the nouveau niche
Journalism.co.uk’s next news:rewired event will take place on 25 June 2010 at Microsoft UK’s London office.
news:rewired – the nouveau niche
It’s a one-day event for journalists and communications professionals with a specialist subject or beat. Whether you follow a specific industry or a localised community, we hope you’ll come away with new practical ideas for online publishing.
More information on speakers and the day’s agenda is available here. Tickets cost £100 +VAT. They can be booked here. PLEASE NOTE: this event is now sold out. Last minute places may become available – please telephone 01273 384293 or email edatjournalism.co.uk to check for availability.
How to follow the event online:
This Cover It Live blog will pick up all the tweets and blog posts tagged #newsrw
UltraKnowledge will be supplying a tweetwall, which can be viewed here
All sorts of lovely Twitter information from the event can be viewed here: Top Tweeters; Most Followers; Most Active; Most Event Follows; and the ‘who knows who’ Wheel.
The BBC College of Journalism will be streaming video live (links to follow)
Keep your eyes on news:rewired.com, Journalism.co.uk and our Editors’ Blog for video, audio and news coverage throughout the event.
The next news:rewired
The first news:rewired event took place on 14 January 2010 at City University London and you can read some of the coverage here.
We’re now starting to plan our next event – focusing on journalists with a specialism, whether that’s working for a niche publisher, reporting for a B2B title or trawling your local area for stories.
We’ve got our own ideas about what should be on the agenda and who we’d like to speak, but we’re open to suggestions, offers of support and sponsorship.
Leave a comment below or email events [at] newsrewired.com.
To be informed of future events sign up here. You can also follow @newsrewired on Twitter.