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Laura Oliver, community coordinator, news, the Guardian; Kate Day, social media and engagement editor, the Telegraph and Cathy Ma, head of social media, IPC Media discuss how to keep your audience engaged
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A welcome address from executive producer of MSN Pete Clifton and Charlie Beckett, founding director of POLIS gives the news:rewired – connected journalism keynote speech
Photo by Nigel Stead, London School of Economics
Keep up to date with what is happening at news:rewired – connected journalism on Thursday, 6 October on Twitter, SoundCloud and on the news:rewired blog
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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.
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.
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
If you’re not able to make news:rewired – beyond the story tomorrow (Thursday 16 December), never fear – we’ll be providing lots of coverage of the day’s events, news and views on newsrewired.com, Journalism.co.uk and Twitter.
“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: […]
Delegates attending news:rewired – beyond the story later this month can snap up a free professional headshot on the day thanks to iStockphoto.
We’re back with more links and resources around some of the discussion topics planned for news:rewired – beyond the story. In this post we’ve collected some tips and articles of interest relating to the digital production desk session, which features speakers Jonathan Richards, Martin Stabe and Vicky Taylor, discussing: the move to digital platforms and production desks; the new tools and opportunities on offer and also how to apply traditional skills to the new media environment.
