Speakers
Speakers already scheduled to take part in news:rewired – full stream ahead, which is due to take place on 13 July 2012 at MSN’s offices in London Victoria, are listed below:
Speakers:
Raju Narisetti, managing editor, Wall Street Journal Digital Network, @rajunarisetti
Joanna Geary, digital development editor, the Guardian, @guardianjoanna
Mark Johnson, community editor, the Economist, @majohns
Craig Silverman, founder, Regret the Error (now published on Poynter), @CraigSilverman
Conrad Quilty-Harper, interactive news editor, the Telegraph, @coneee
Jason Mills, editor of web development, ITV News, @jasonmillsitv
Martin Fewell, deputy editor, Channel 4 News, @martinfewell
Luke Lewis, editor, NME.com, @lukelewis
Paul Bradshaw, visiting professor in online journalism at City University London and Course Leader of the MA in Online Journalism at Birmingham City University. Paul is also publisher of the Online Journalism Blog and founder of Help Me Investigate, @paulbradshaw
Pete Clifton,executive producer of MSN UK, @peteclifton
Alex Gubbay, director, digital platforms, Johnston Press, @AlexGubbay
John Barnes, managing director of the technology and digital division at Incisive Media, @JohnNMBarnes
Subhajit Banerjee, mobile editor, Guardian News & Media, @subhajitb
Damian Kimmelman, CEO, Duedil, @duediler
Moderators:
Kathryn Corrick, digital media consultant @kcorrick
We have lots more speakers still to announce, so watch this space!
Below is a list of the speakers who took part in our last conference, news:rewired – media in motion.
Liz Heron, social media editor at the New York Times, @lheron, will deliver the keynote. She will explain how the NYT taps into social networks for newsgathering, and uses social media for creative distribution and community engagement.
Laura Kuenssberg, business editor, ITV News, @ITVLauraK. Laura joined ITV News from the BBC, causing what she called “frenzied conversation” about the future of her @BBCLauraK account which had collected around 67,000 followers. At news:rewired she will discuss social media standards in the final panel debate.
Nate Lanxon, editor, Wired.co.uk, @NateLanxon. Nate leads a team that has developed a 12,000-strong Facebook page. In the session on social media optimisation, he’ll be talking about how Wired.co.uk posts to Facebook, the times of day that work best and will share his tips on understanding Facebook’s algorithm.
Neal Mann, digital news editor, Sky News, @fieldproducer. Neal is well known in the industry for his extensive use of social media for newsgathering and reporting and will form part of the final panel for a debate on social media standards and to discuss his own standards in using such platforms and maintaining his personal journalist brand.
Malcolm Coles, digital production director, nationals, Trinity Mirror, @malcolmcoles. Malcolm is an SEO expert and will be leading the workshop on SEO for journalists.
Paul Gallagher, head of online content, the Manchester Evening News, @pdgallagher. The MEN has made effective use of mobile reporting to cover a wide range of stories. Head of online content Paul Gallagher will talk through the use of mobile reporting at a regional title and examples of how the MEN has used it most effectively.
Simon Rogers, editor, Guardian Datablog and Datastore, @smfrogers. Simon, who is an award-winning data journalist known for his work hoping to visualise Guardian data sets, will be leading a data journalism workshop.
Bobby Schweizer is a doctoral student at the Georgia Institute of Technology and co-author of Newsgames: Journalism at Play, @NewsgamesGT. Bobby will be joining us to give examples of newsgames and guiding us through how readers can gain a greater understanding of a story through participating and playing an online game.
Mike Goldsmith, editor-in-chief of iPad and tablet editions, Future Publishing, @mikegoldsmith. Creating and staffing new tablet-specific apps for a range of titles is a costly process, but will PDF formats on the iPad cut it in a competitive market? Mike will discuss Future’s strategy in publishing its magazines across a range of platforms.
François Nel, researcher, academic, consultant on newsroom and digital business innovation, @francoisnel. He’s the founding director of the Journalism Leaders Programme at the University of Central Lancashire and a co-founder of the Digital Editors Network (UK). He’ll be speaking in the session on paid-for content models.
Shannon Perkins, editor of interactive technologies, Wired.com and creator of the Cutthroat Capitalism game, where the player becomes a Somali pirate. Before joining Wired in 2008 he spent over 10 years in Silicon Valley helping develop new categories of digital products. He’ll be speaking in a session on newsgames.
Christian Payne, social technologist, mobile story maker, @documentally. Originally a newspaper photographer, Payne has spent years experimenting with social and mobile technologies. Previous projects include work with the UN, British Council in Pakistan, and Reuters. He’ll be speaking on the mobile reporting panel.
Chris Hamilton, social media editor, BBC News, @chrishams. Chris will be speaking in the session on social media optimisation. He will explain how the @BBCNews automated Twitter feed is turned off during the day and sharing tips on writing handcrafted tweets and using hashtags.Pete Clifton, executive producer of MSN UK, @peteclifton. Pete joined Microsoft in May 2011 as the executive producer of MSN UK, and was previously editor of the BBC News website. He will give the welcome address at the beginning of the conference.
Katherine Haddon is currently AFP’s bureau chief in Kabul but will become head of online, English, in January. @khaddon. In October AFP produced a new social media guide for its reporters “after months of internal discussion”. Katherine will join the final panel to debate social media standards and the agency’s approach.
Christian Heilmann, principal developer evangelist, Mozilla, @codepo8. Christian will be speaking in the session on online video, guiding us through examples of HTML5 video and explaining how Mozilla’s Popcorn Maker will enable journalists to create video that include tweets, Google Street View images and source data.
Tom Standage, digital editor at the Economist, @tomstandage, overseeing the magazine’s website, Economist.com, and its smartphone, tablet and e-reader editions. He will be speaking in the paid-for content models about how the Economist has developed achieved 100,000 digital-only subscribers.
Josh de la Mare is editor of Financial Times video, a team of producers based in London, New York and Hong Kong. He is a former TV producer/director. Following the launch of the FT’s own studio in 2010, he will discuss how video interviews and on-the-ground features integrate with a news website and newspaper.
Chris Newell is CEO and founder of ImpulsePay. ImpulsePay is a small payments service that provides an efficient way for publishers to offer premium or additional content on a paid-for basis, enabling every reader with a mobile phone to pay for the content. Chris will join the paid-for content models panel.
Martin Belam, user experience lead at the Guardian, @currybet. Martin works across the Guardian’s website and mobile apps and will be joining the social media optimisation panel to talk about the Guardian’s new Facebook app, how it is encouraging greater use by the under-24 audience and offering trend data on reader habits.
Andy Cotgreave, senior product consultant, Tableau, @acotgreave. Andy is senior product consultant at Tableau Software. He has been a Tableau blogger and enthusiast for over four years and previously worked with the University of Oxford. He will be discussing Tableau Software in the data journalism tools workshop.
Darren Waters, head of devices and social media at MSN, @darrenwaters, will be presenting in the session on social media optimisation. He will be discussing how MSN uses social media.
Nick Martin, Sky News correspondent, @NickMartinSKY. Nick is pioneering the use of the iPhone at the channel to shoot and edit broadcast-quality footage at events such as the student protests. He uses a combination of free apps and additional tools such as external microphones to make broadcast reporting fast-moving and portable.
Nicola Hughes, Knight-Mozilla Fellow at the Guardian. Since entering the media sphere Nicola has looked to online sources to gather, decipher and share news under her digital persona, @DataMinerUK. She has previously worked as a digital producer at CNN International and learnt how to programme with ScraperWiki.
Al Trivino, director of innovation at News International, @alfredotrivino. He will be speaking in the session on gaming as he has recently prototyped an educational ‘visual dictionary’ for the Times in which all olympic disciplines can be learnt by practising them via an iPhone game.
Alastair Dant, interactive lead at the Guardian, @ajdant. Alastair will be joining the gaming session, explaining why simple quizzes can be hugely successful in terms of audience engagement and result in the story going viral.
Douglas Arellanes, technologist, consultant and the director of clients and services for Sourcefabric, a not-for-profit organisation supporting journalism worldwide through open source software and services, @dougiegyro. He will be speaking in the session on multiplatform strategies.
Ben Fawkes, audio content manager, SoundCloud, @benfawkes, will be joining the session on mobile reporting and will explain how journalists can use the platform for storytelling.
Tom McArthur, UK editor, www.breakingnews.com, @TomMcArthur. Tom joined the Breaking News team in November 2011 after working as a freelance online producer for ITV News. As one of the team behind @breakingnews he will be part of the social media standards discussion in the final panel debate.
John Domokos, video producer and founder member of the video team at the Guardian, @johndomokos. John will join the online video panel to talk about exploring new forms and styles of video journalism on the web.
Ron Diorio, vice president of product and community development at Economist.com, @rondiorio. Ron will be joining the session on multiplatform strategies.
Steve Wing, business director for mobile, the Guardian, @steve_wing. Steve will be joining the session on multiplatform strategies to discuss the Guardian’s new tablet apps.
Alex Watson, head of app development, Dennis Publishing, @sifter. Alex will be part of the session on paid-for models and will talk about how Apple’s Newsstand has had an impact on Dennis Publishing.
David Dunkley Gyimah, Knight Batten and international award-winning videojournalist, @viewmagazine. A former broadcaster, David has now turned academic and consultant completing his PhD on journalism futures. He will be speaking in the online video session on innovation in the industry.
Andrew Grill, CEO, Kred, @andrewgrill. Andrew, also editor of www.LondonCalling.co, will join the workshop on searching social media, to show how Kred, a real-time community-based influence measure, can be used by journalists.Update: Chris Talintyre, head of direct and digital marketing, Factory Media and Adam Westbrook, multimedia journalist, blogger and lecturer are no longer able to speak at the conference.
Moderators:
Katie King, senior product manager, Portal & Partners, MSN UK, @KTKING
Marcus Warren, editor, Telegraph website, @MarcusWa
Kevin Anderson, journalist and digital strategist, @kevglobal
David Hayward, head of journalism programme, BBC College of Journalism, @davidh2
