Speakers from Open Democracy, Reputation Online and the Libel Reform Campaign discuss building networks and communities around content and making content ‘discoverable, shareable and allowing readers to interact with it in a live setting’

Mobile devices are not a replacement for professional equipment but can provide low-cost supplementary footage, agree news:rewired speakers in the mobile journalism session

The BBC College of Journalism will livestreaming parts of the day here on the news:rewired website

MSN UK executive producer stresses the importance of building a personal brand online and urging journalists not to underestimate the long-term importance or new technologies

The tickets have been snapped up and the speakers are ready: the final countdown to news:rewired begins. On Friday 25 June 2010, Journalism.co.uk will host its second news:rewired event – ‘the nouveau niche’, at Microsoft UK in London.

This live blog will pick up the tweets tagged #newsrw at Friday’s news:rewired event.

News:rewired – the nouveau niche, to be held in London on Friday 25 June, is an event aimed specifically at business-to-business (b2b) publishers and UK journalists working on niche titles will be well represented both on the panels and in the audience.
To demonstrate this, we have created this Wordle, showing where our delegates and speakers work (click on the graphic to see a larger version):

As you can see, the largest group is ‘freelance’, although we have also listed some delegates’ own companies or sites as their ‘organisation’.
UBM is the best …

Business Desk West Midlands editor claims the newspapers are ‘incapable of adopting the entrepreneurial approach’ to online journalism and are ‘wrong-headed’ on paywalls

To spread the word even further about our forthcoming digital journalism event news:rewired – the nouveau niche, we are offering you the chance to win a Livescribe Pulse smartpen.

news:rewired is proud to announce video platform Kyte as a silver sponsor for our second news:rewired event at Microsoft UK, London, on 25 June 2010.