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A Wordle to show who is coming to news:rewired – digital stories

November 20, 2012 Event news, Featured Posts Leave a Comment

With most of the tickets for news:rewired – digital stories now sold, and just over two weeks to go until the digital journalism conference, we’ve produced a Wordle showing the representation of companies by delegates expected on the day.

You can also see a list of the speakers due to present on the day here, the agenda is viewable at this link, and a list of most of the delegates signed up to attend can be seen here.

Speakers include representatives of outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Guardian US, The Irish Times, Google+, Financial Times, Channel 4 News, Future Publishing and Trinity Mirror.

There are still a handful of tickets available for news:rewired, but be quick as the event is expected to sell out. Tickets for the one-day conference can be purchased at this link for just £130 (+VAT). Lunch and refreshments will also be provided, as well as networking drinks afterwards.

Data journalism expert Nicolas Kayser-Bril to deliver news:rewired keynote

November 16, 2012 Event news, Featured Posts Leave a Comment

Nicolas Kayser-Bril, chief executive and co-founder of Journalism++ – which brings web technologies into journalistic workflows – will deliver the keynote speech at news:rewired – digital stories on Thursday 6 December.

Self-taught programmer and data-driven journalist Kayser-Bril was previously in charge of data journalism at OWNI, where he led several experiments in crowdsourced data gathering.

He will join the line up of more than 30 digital journalism experts also speaking at the one-day digital journalism conference, which aims to equip delegates with knowledge of the latest techniques and tools for producing top-notch digital journalism, as well as offering insight into some of the innovative projects evolving within today’s newsrooms, and outside of them.

Kayser-Bril will talk about how and why news outlets should place data at the heart of the newsroom, and draw on his experiences at Owni and Journalism++ to discuss the development of data journalism and opportunities for news outlets now and in the future.

Announcing Synthesio as latest sponsor of news:rewired – digital stories

November 15, 2012 Event news, Featured Posts Leave a Comment

We’re pleased to announce social media monitoring specialists Synthesio as the latest sponsors of digital journalism conference news:rewired – digital stories.

Journalism.co.uk’s one-day conference takes place on Thursday 6 December at MSN UK’s offices in Victoria, London.

The day will be geared towards equipping delegates with knowledge of the latest techniques and tools for producing top-notch digital journalism, as well as offering insight into some of the innovative projects evolving within today’s newsrooms, and outside of them. See the agenda here.

Synthesio is a global, multi-lingual social media monitoring company that offers a powerful mix of tech and human monitoring services, to help businesses collect, make sense of and participate in the conversations happening about them online.

There are still a handful of tickets available for news:rewired, but be quick as the event usually sells out. Tickets for the one-day conference can be purchased at this link for just £130 (+VAT). Lunch and refreshments will also be provided, as well as networking drinks afterwards.

Need a hotel while attending #newsrw? The Georgian House is offering discount for delegates

November 12, 2012 Event news, Featured Posts Leave a Comment

Ahead of news:rewired – digital stories we’re pleased to say The Georgian House is again offering conference delegates a 10 per cent discount on rooms for Wednesday 5 December and Thursday 6 December.

The four-star bed and breakfast is located near to Victoria Station and just a 10 to 15 minute walk from the event venue at MSN UK, Cardinal Place, 100 Victoria Street, London, SW1E 5JL.

Announcing Parse.ly as latest sponsor of news:rewired – digital stories

November 9, 2012 Event news, Featured Posts Leave a Comment

We’re pleased to announce analytics and content optimisation platform Parse.ly as the latest sponsors of digital journalism conference news:rewired – digital stories.

Journalism.co.uk’s one-day conference takes place on Thursday 6 December at MSN UK’s offices in Victoria, London.

Parse.ly is a predictive analytics and content optimisation platform for online publishers. Its flagship product, Dash, is a comprehensive analytics platform built to support decision-making at the editorial level, streamline reporting at the analyst level, surface opportunities on marketing content to a larger audience, and provide product value through its robust API and personalised content recommendation technology.

Enjoy two days of digital journalism learning with our ‘news:rewired plus’ tickets

November 8, 2012 Event news, Featured Posts Leave a Comment

Digital journalism conference news:rewired – digital stories takes place on Thursday 6 December at MSN UK’s offices in Victoria, London – and this time we’re offering delegates the chance to add on an additional day of training.

With our news:rewired PLUS tickets delegates can attend both the news:rewired conference on the Thursday (6 December) as well as a day of intensive training on the Wednesday (5 December).

news:rewired PLUS tickets are just £310 (+VAT) and can be booked at this link.

If you select a news:rewired PLUS ticket when booking we will contact you to confirm which training course you would like to attend on the Wednesday and provide further details. Space on these training courses will be limited and running of them will be subject to demand.

Collection of tips, articles and resources on news site design and user experience

October 31, 2012 Event news, Featured Posts Leave a Comment

On Thursday 6 December Journalism.co.uk will be running its next digital journalism conference, news:rewired – digital stories. One of the sessions planned for the day will look at site design, user experience and news readability, with speakers including Martin Belam, principal consultant, Emblem; Grig Davidovitz, co-founder, RGB Media; Kate Ortega, deputy graphics editor, The Wall Street Journal and Marc Downer, user experience consultant, Adido.

Ahead of the conference we’ve compiled some related reading (and listening) for delegates interested in learning more about user experiences in digital news, the approaches being taken by some news outlets and what recent research has revealed.

More lightning round projects to be presented at news:rewired – digital stories

October 30, 2012 Event news, Featured Posts Leave a Comment

We recently announced four of the projects to be presented at news:rewired – digital stories on Thursday 6 December during two lightning rounds, which will be dedicated to hearing about some of the latest innovations in the digital journalism world.

They included:

– Talk About Local Augmented Reality
– Storination
– Ocqur
– Social Sensor

We now have three more projects to announce, which will also be presented in the lightning rounds on the day.

Reddit Eddit. Speaker: Benji Lanyado
Interactive Newsprint. Speaker: Paul Egglestone, University of Central Lancashire
Webcrumbz. Speaker: Ciprian Borodescu

Announcing CoveritLive as latest sponsor of news:rewired – digital stories

October 30, 2012 Event news, Featured Posts Leave a Comment

We are pleased to announce liveblogging platform CoveritLive as the latest sponsor of news:rewired – digital stories, Journalism.co.uk’s next digital journalism conference.

The one-day event, which takes place on Thursday 6 December at MSN UK’s offices in Victoria, will be geared towards equipping delegates with knowledge of the latest techniques and tools for producing top-notch digital journalism, as well as offering insight into some of the innovative projects evolving within today’s newsrooms, and outside of them.

Demand Media’s senior director and general manager for CoveritLive, Ben Schneider, will be joining the liveblogging workshop at news:rewired – digital stories, where he will share top tips for liveblogging success and making the most of the platform.

There are still tickets available for news:rewired, but be quick as the event usually sells out. Tickets for the one-day conference can be purchased at this link for just £130 (+VAT). Lunch and refreshments will also be provided, as well as networking drinks afterwards.

There is also a news:rewired PLUS ticket option for just £310 (+VAT), which includes both a day’s intensive training on the Wednesday (5 December) and the day-long conference on the Thursday (6 December). Delegates can choose one of three options for the day of intensive training: Introduction to Data Journalism, run by Paul Bradshaw; Online Media Law, run by David Banks or Advanced Online Research Skills, run by Colin Meek. You can buy either of these tickets at this link.

news:rewired – digital stories, Thursday 6 December, at MSN UK, London

October 2, 2012 Event news, Featured Posts, Headline Leave a Comment

The next news:rewired digital journalism conference will take place on Thursday 6 December at MSN UK in Victoria, London. (Cardinal Place, 100 Victoria Street, London, SW1E 5JL).

news:rewired – digital stories will bring together key digital journalism experts and innovators for a day of sessions, workshops, debates and discussion, geared towards equipping you with knowledge of the latest techniques and tools for producing top-notch digital journalism, as well as offering insight into some of the innovative projects evolving within today’s newsrooms – and outside of them.

news:rewired: Delegates can purchase a ticket for the one-day conference for just £130 (+VAT). Lunch and refreshments will also be provided at the day-long event, as well as networking drinks afterwards.

news:rewired PLUS: With this new option delegates can instead purchase one of our news:rewired PLUS tickets for just £310 (+VAT), which includes both a day’s intensive training on the Wednesday (5 December) and the day-long conference on the Thursday (6 December).

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