We’ve been adding new speakers to our agenda for news:rewired – beyond the story over the past few weeks. In case you missed the changes, here’s who is joining us.
Links: Gaming and journalism – what can we learn?
The final session of news:rewired – beyond the story will look at how elements of computer, video and social gaming could be used by journalists and media organisations. We want to get you thinking about how gaming technologies, storytelling techniques and relationships between games and their players might be incorporated into journalism.
It might not be something you’ve thought about before, but there’s already some pretty interesting research and blog posts being written on the subject, which we’ve rounded up.
Links: Building an online community from scratch – what does it take?
As part of the build-up to news:rewired we want to give you some food for thought before each of our sessions.
So we’ll be posting a collection of tools, links and ideas relevant to each of the subjects up for discussion. Think of it like a reading list or a starting point for questions on the day.
First up is Building an Online Community from Scratch with Ed Walker, Neil Perkins and Anthony Thornton and some key blog posts from the speakers themselves and other experts.
Announcing news:rewired – beyond the story, 16 December 2010
Journalism.co.uk’s next news:rewired event will take place on 16 December at Microsoft UK’s London office.
news:rewired – beyond the story
What’s it about?
It’s a one-day event for journalists and communications professionals who want to learn more about building a brand and digital products to support and share their content. This event, which focuses on practical advice from experts in journalism and digital publishing, will look at the processes and technology involved beyond producing content that can make your journalism and communications more powerful.
The sessions will cover: building communities for content from scratch; search engine optimisation for specialist publishers; new business ideas and product management; and what linked data and the semantic web mean for journalists.
Who’s it for?
news:rewired events are for: working journalists with an interest in digital media; media trainers and students; journalism and communications academics; PR and communications professionals; and anyone interested in where the journalism and media industries are headed.
How can I get involved?
More information on speakers is available here. You can subscribe to this site to receive updates about the event at this link, or email laura [at] journalism.co.uk for more information.
Early-bird tickets will be available until 29 October at a reduced price of £80 (+VAT). To get yours click the Tickets tab or go to this link.
After 29 October ticket prices will rise to £100 (+VAT). For information about tickets and availability email ed [at] journalism.co.uk.
For sponsorship/advertising queries contact:
adam [at] journalism.co.uk or rebecca [at] journalism.co.uk.
Slideshow: news:rewired speakers caught on camera
Our speakers at news:rewired – the nouveau niche were captured in full arm-waving, hand-gesturing swing by Journalism.co.uk’s @johncthompson.
Catch all the coverage from news:rewired – the nouveau niche
Journalism.co.uk’s news:rewired – the nouveau niche event took take place on 25 June 2010 at Microsoft UK’s London office.
The aim was a one-day event for journalists and communications professionals with a specialist subject or beat, offering new, practical ideas for online publishing. It was a follow up to our first conference in January with more of a niche focus this time around.
We’re busy collecting all the blog posts, tweets, videos and more from the day at this link. You’ll also be able to see presentations from our speakers on the website soon. If you came and want to catch up, or couldn’t make it, it’s worth checking out coverage of the day from our reporters Rachel McAthy and Patrick Smith and the liveblog of tweets from the day.
You can also see who’s been tweeting about the event under the hashtag #newsrw on our tweetwall.
More information on the speakers and the day’s agenda is available here.
If you’re interested in hearing about future events from Journalism.co.uk, drop us an email.
#newsrw: The future’s bright, the future’s niche
We round up some of the most innovative contributions to news:rewired, from the permanently out-of-office approach, to video game storytelling, to the location-based social media explosion
#newsrw: Marc Reeves keynote: journalists need to learn to help sell niche, targeted content
Readers have always thought of themselves in niches, claims Reeves, who calls the regional press foolish for thinking of a community of 100,000 as a single group
#newsrw: Users are an essential source of information, agree UGC panellists
Journalists need to lead by example in terms of sharing, and cultivate close-knit communities around content, according Paul Bradshaw, founder of crowdsourced investigative site Help Me Investigate
#newsrw: the Times, RBI confident of a paid-for news future
Times assistant editor said paywall alternatives meant “enormously intrusive advertising”, and claims that at a lot of sites “the barrier between journalism and commercial was getting very thin”