February 2015
Didier Hamann, editor-in-chief, Le Soir, shared some of the principles behind the Belgian news outlet’s project #25 at the recent news:rewired conference.
As part of the project, the Belgian news outlet offered a team of journalists aged between 23 and 29 years old free rein to “do almost anything in the newspaper”.
In one of the busiest sessions at the recent news:rewired, the BBC’s assistant editor for social news, Mark Frankel, posed a number of questions to the other speakers and the audience.
How will newsrooms manage information from the multitude of new social platforms? What is the best way to connect to those different audiences? And what will you do if in the (increasingly likely) event of a hung parliament?
Journalists and newsrooms have access to more data than ever about their stories and how, when, why and where they are being read. But which metrics are actually valuable? And by what lens should newsrooms assess their work?
Analytics expert Stijn Debrouwere and City A.M. social and digital media director Martin Ashplant were joined by John LoGioco, executive vice-president at Outbrain, to discuss their views and experiences on the subject at the most recent news:rewired.
With 700 million users and a year of strong growth in usage from publishers, WhatsApp is a platform that news organisations can’t ignore.
At Italian publisher Gruppo L’Espresso, head of audience engagement and product development Alessio Balbi has found the platform has both a lot of potential and current limitations.
He shared his thoughts in the opening panel at the recent news:rewired conference and we caught up with him for the below video.
Drones expert Ben Kreimer explains his use of the technology in one of the closing sessions at news:rewired, today in London
The afternoon keynote speech at news:rewired was delivered today by Joanna Geary, head of news partnerships at Twitter UK, and touched upon three key areas: use of data, engagement, and discovery and multimedia.
Analytics in the newsroom is not about the tools, it’s about your workflow, Stijn Debrouwere, freelance analytics expert and a former Knight-Mozilla fellow, told the news:rewired conference today in London
Representatives from NPR the and BBC shared some of their experiences at the news:rewired conference, in London today, on how best to overcome the problem of audio being difficult to find and share online.
In the final session of the day, a panel of experts demonstrated to the news:rewired conference how newsrooms are harnessing new technology, such as wearables, to tell stories and deliver news, and in the future. This is the archived version of the session live blog
Data journalist – and Knight International Journalism Fellow – Friedrich Lindenberg outlines a series of online tools he feels could be used more widely to benefit the work of investigative journalists and news institutions
