John Burn-Murdoch, interactive data journalist at the Financial Times, today gave delegates at the news:rewired conference, in London, a run down of tools and techniques to turn data sets into maps and visualisations.
The different ways news organisations can tell stories in the digital age
Location-specific content might be the next big thing in journalism, Mathew Ingram, senior writer for GigaOm told the final session of the news:rewired conference in London today.
How Google Tools can help your journalism
Google’s Stephen Rosenthal and Madhav Chinnappa explained to delegates at news:rewired how Google Tools can help journalists in a multitude of ways
As it happened: Google tools masterclass at news:rewired
Madhav Chinnappa and Stephen Rosenthal share Google tools for journalists
How news groups use social media to build stories
The first panel session of news:rewired looked at ways in which journalists can locate conversations across social media platforms, discover news leads and tune in to audience reactions.
The session featured: Ian Barber, senior developer advocate, Google+; Katie Rogers, social news editor, Guardian US; Dave Wyllie, editor, BreakingNews.com; Catriona Oldershaw, UK managing director, Synthesio, talking about their varied experience of breaking news across the web
The panel discussed how journalists measure success of ‘social conversations’.
As it happened: Tips for journalists on collecting social media conversations
The first session of news:rewired looked at the ways journalists can find conversations taking place on various social media platforms, discover news leads and tune in to audience reactions.
The session featured: Ian Barber, senior developer advocate, Google+; Katie Rogers, social news editor, Guardian US; Dave Wyllie, editor, BreakingNews.com; Catriona Oldershaw, UK managing director, Synthesio. Moderated by Gabrielle Peters, social media consultant.