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Announcing Parse.ly as latest sponsor of news:rewired

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We’re pleased to announce Parse.ly, the web analytics experts, as the latest sponsor of the next news:rewired digital journalism conference.

The conference will take place on Wednesday 23 July at MSN UK’s headquarters in London, where leading online journalists will share their work and advice in making the most of online tools and opportunities.

Parse.ly’s Clare Carr will lead a post-lunch workshop demonstrating how audience insights can be useful to offer more relevant and engaging content as part of a wider editorial strategy, with the aim of improving metrics such as unique visitors, time-on-site and return visits.

Other news:rewired sessions announced so far include a discussion on the use of private social network in journalisms, a workshop on finding documents, data and social media content to support stories, spreadsheet skills for journalists and key social media tools.

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First speakers and sessions announced for next news:rewired

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We are excited to announce the first speakers and sessions for the next news:rewired digital journalism conference on 23 July at MSN UK’s offices in London.

    – Trushar Barot, assistant editor, BBC UGC and social media hub, will be joining the panel for a session on private social media networks such as Snapchat, WhatsApp and WeChat.

    – Nazanine Moshiri, roving correspondent, Al Jazeera English, will be taking part in a session on how journalists are using the social news site Reddit.

    – Sarah Marshall, Social media editor, EMEA, at the Wall Street Journal, will be leading a session on social media tools for journalists.

Tickets for news:rewired are available now for £130 +VAT, and you can also purchase tickets as a package alongside a one-day journalism training course with news:rewired+ for just £300 +VAT.

The training courses will take place the day after news:rewired, on 24 July. Choose from:

You can buy tickets here, and watch this space for more agenda announcements coming soon.

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The next news:rewired digital journalism conference: Wednesday 23 July

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Following another sell-out event in February, we’re pleased to announce our next news:rewired conference will take place on Wednesday 23 July.

The one-day conference, which is run by Journalism.co.uk, will cover key areas of innovation and experimentation in digital journalism, with a focus on sharing practical tips and techniques to help delegates produce more engaging content on digital platforms.

More details on the agenda and speaker list will available soon. If you want to make a suggestion, please feel free to email rachel[at]journalism.co.uk with more details on what you want to see discussed at the event.

Tickets – on sale now!Book Your Place!

As of today, we have 50 earlybird discount tickets available for just £95 +VAT. Once all 50 have been sold, or by the end of Thursday 8 May, whichever comes first, the ticket price will rise to £130 +VAT.

This time, we’re also giving you the chance to add-on an additional day of digital journalism training, with a news:rewired+ ticket, which gives you access to the conference on Wednesday 23 July as well as a one-day training course on Thursday 24 July – for just £245 +VAT.

The earlybird news:rewired+ tickets offer delegates a 25 per cent discount on the Friday training course when booked together. Again, this is a limited discount, which also falls within the 50-ticket limit, or by the end of Thursday 8 May, whichever comes first. After this point news:rewired+ tickets will rise to £300, which gives you a discount of just under 15 per cent on the training course when booked with news:rewired.

There will be three training courses on offer to attend on Thursday 24 July as part of news:rewired+. We will be sharing more details on the options available soon. Update: We have now announced the details of the three training courses on offer, which cover social media, data journalism and mobile reporting.

Book news:rewired and news:rewired+ tickets at this link.

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Highlights from the news:rewired digital journalism conference

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Journalists, editors and other media professionals packed into MSN UK’s office in Victoria, London, yesterday for the 11th news:rewired digital journalism conference.

Highlights on the agenda included a keynote speech from Buzzfeed editorial director Jack Shepherd and sessions on short-form video, immersive storytelling and using Instagram for news.

Below is a Storify of some of the tweets from the day.

And if you missed news:rewired this time around, you can still catch up with all the sessions and workshops from the day on video with one of our digital tickets.

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