As part of our news:rewired follow-up coverage, we’ll be posting slideshows of the speakers’ presentations for those who missed it or simply want to recap. See presentations from Simeon Brody, Samantha Shepherd, Simon Perry and Matthew Eltringham

Our final panellists at news:rewired – the nouveau niche did their best to challenge, provoke and predict what’s next for niche journalism. Are specialist journalists too focused on ‘the story’? How do you serve a niche audience and attract new readers? Speaking to them off-stage, we probed a little further in this video.

Our speakers at news:rewired – the nouveau niche were captured in full arm-waving, hand-gesturing swing by Journalism.co.uk’s @johncthompson.

We’ve done our best to round up all the coverage from our news:rewired conference at Microsoft UK last Friday, but it’s likely we’ve missed some. So please, please send anything else our way and we’ll add it in: tweet @journalismnews or drop us an email events [at] newsrewired.com. We’ll follow this up with as many of the speaker’s presentations as possible.

For many sites, a lot of commenters is a benchmark of online publishing success. But why do publishers encourage comments and what value can they get from it? An afternoon breakout session at news:rewired sought to find out…