The first news:rewired event took place on 14 January 2010 at City University London and you can read some of the coverage here.

We’re now starting to plan our next event – focusing on journalists with a specialism, whether that’s working for a niche publisher, reporting for a B2B title or trawling your local area for stories.

We’ve got our own ideas about what should be on the agenda and who we’d like to speak, but we’re open to suggestions, offers of support and sponsorship.

Leave a comment below or email events [at] newsrewired.com.

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In the final session at Journalism.co.uk’s news:rewired event on 14 January, we looked ‘New journalism, new business models: how can journalism support itself online?’ With presentations by James Fryer, deputy editor SoGlos; Caroline Kean, partner at media law firm, Wiggin and Ben Heald, CEO, Sift, we learnt how to claim our copyright, how to develop local and niche content models, and how these panelists had made publishing pay. But the headline-grabbing lines of the session came from Greg Hadfield, head of digital media at Telegraph.co.uk. Hadfield, whose son created Soccernet, publicly revealed that he had earlier that week resigned from the Telegraph, to join Cogapp, a digital agency. Hadfield said he would be “helping to reinvent the future and not just making the mistakes of the past”.

• Read more here: Greg Hadfield – “Why I left the Telegraph”

Video courtesy of City University London and the BBC College of Journalism:

At our news:rewired session on local media, Sarah Hartley, launch editor of the Guardian’s new local sites, gave a fascinating overview of which players are involved the local media scene – from independent start-ups to big news groups with hyperlocal intentions.

Sarah gave another great talk on the subject at October’s Digital Editors Network meeting at the Lancashire Evening Post, the slides from which are below, courtesy of her blog:

Media consultant and trainer Justin Kings gave his crowdsourced list of the top 10 essential skills for multimedia journalists to the news:rewired crowd. His presentation from the day is below:

Courtesy of Glyn Mottershead, one of the delegates at news:rewired, here’s audio of Tony Hirst from the Open University talking about in-browser data mashing for journalists:

Tony Hirst (@psychemedia) on data mashing by egrommet

You can read Tony’s presentation at this link.

James Fryer, deputy editor of independent arts and entertainment website SoGlos.com, talked at news:rewired about his experiences with launching and running an online news business:

In the data mashing session at news:rewired, Open University lecturer Tony Hirst presented on ‘Playing with data – all you need is glue’. It was a fascinating talk with lots of practical detail. You can find more data teaching resources on his blog ouseful.info.

Some of the online tools he mentioned: Many Eyes Wikified, Yahoo Pipes, Dabble DB, Google Fusion Tables, the Guardian data store, and GeoCommons.

Tony encourages anyone with any questions to get in touch: via email – a.j.hirst@open.ac.uk, @psychemedia on Twitter or his blog.

To the surprise of some of our speakers, the excellent Drawnalism had been busy sketching during news:rewired last week. You can read more about Drawnalism’s work here. You can also view the gallery here and follow @drawnalism on Twitter. More on its creators, Alex Hughes and Matt Buck at http://www.mattbuckhackcartoons.com/ / http://alexhughescartoons.co.uk/

If you weren’t able to make the news:rewired session on troubleshooting within online journalism, Adam Tinworth, editorial development for Reed Business Information (RBI), has shared the slides from his presentation detailing what he’s learned from implementing blogs and social media tools with journalists at RBI.

Delegate Glyn Mottershead also has this audio from the session, which featured pointers on managing multimedia newsrooms and introducing journalists to multimedia from Jon Bernstein, deputy editor, New Statesman (former Channel 4 multimedia editor); Robin Goad, research director, Hitwise; and Malcolm Coles, internet consultant and media blogger.

If you attended news:rewired but missed some talks or you couldn’t make the day altogether, below is a round-up of coverage from the sessions:

Kevin Marsh has blogged the full notes of his opening speech.

Nigel Barlow, freelance journalist, has his thoughts on George Brock and Marsh’s openers here; and freelancer Patrick Smith has some additional thoughts from Brock on the role journalism schools can play in news publishing.

Reuters’ Mark Jones has an interview with Marsh after his speech here.

Adam Tinworth, editorial development at Reed Business Information – has liveblogged coverage of:

• the opening sessions;
• the online journalism troubleshooting panel;
• the crowdsourcing discussion;
• SoGlos.com’s James Fryer on making money;
• Greg Hadfield, outgoing digital executive at the Telegraph, on entrepreneurial journalism.

Freelancer Phyllis Stephen on Adam Westbrook’s presentation on audio slideshows.

Alex Walters, journalism student and one of our team covering the event, reports back on the heated session on crowdsourcing. UCLAN lecture Andy Dickinson posts his thoughts on the local media panel.

We’ll be posting speaker’s presentations soon and more posts from the day as we see them, but if you’ve got a write-up let us know.