There are plenty of ways to catch-up with all the goings on from news:rewired – beyond the story, so use this post as a guide through the coverage of the day.
Slideshow: news:rewired – beyond the story in pictures
See our speakers and delegates from news:rewired – beyond the story, 16 December 2010, in the slideshow below.
news:rewired – beyond the story: what the delegates thought
We catch up with some of the delegates at the end of the latest news:rewired event – beyond the story, to ask them what their favourite sessions were, what they will take away from the day’s events and what they thought of the line-up
The one-day event looked at the processes and technology beyond producing content which could help make journalism more powerful. Sessions included discussions on building a community from scratch, search engine optimisation, linked data and the semantic web and the digital production desk.
How specialist publishers can compete with national news organisations for SEO
A guest post from news:rewired speaker and SEO and content strategy consultant Malcolm Coles When national news organisations like the Mail or the BBC take an interest in your specialism, they can siphon off all your search traffic. All of a sudden, you go from being the number one result on Google for a given […]
Going beyond the story: journalism, storytelling and computer games
Journalism is about storytelling, right? It’s a narrative form, isn’t it? What about using non-narrative means to disseminate news around issues like climate change, the financial crisis or coalition politics. Our final session looked at the use of computer games in the future of journalism
Journalism students need to be taught advertising, branding, building relationships, says ad entrepreneur
Rick Waghorn, founder of locally-focused advertising network Addiply, said that if we want to build a pyramid of news we have to start at the bottom level based on a local advertising market and messages
Community editors should be an integral part of the newsroom, says Media Wales’ Ed Walker
Focusing on local history, getting input from experts, and making journalism a two-way stree using interactive features are some of the ways to build communities around content, Walker told delegates
Tight-knit communities make brands successful, not numbers, says Joanna Geary
Times communities editor Joanna Geary tells news:rewired that it shouldn’t just be eyeballs anymore but about engaging with existing readers and communities around content
news:rewired teams up with Wannabe Hacks and BBC Cojo for live coverage
For those who can’t make it along to news:rewired tomorrow, fear not. We’ll have liveblogging from Wannabe Hacks, video footage from BBC College of Journalism and blogging from freelance journalist Rosie Niven
News:rewired events 2010 – what the delegates said
“A very interesting conference, very enjoyable, and gave me lots of ideas and new contacts, thanks :)” Helen Roxburgh, multimedia reporter, Estates Gazette, Reed Business Information “Extremely informative, great speakers, feel like I have really learnt a lot today about multimedia journalism and social media.” Natasha Elkington, AlertNet journalist, Thomson Reuters Foundation “Another stonking event: […]