The next Newsrewired digital journalism conference will take place in November 2019 at Reuters in Canary Wharf, London.
This will be our 25th conference, and as usual, we will aim to provide delegates with practical skills and ideas they can take home and explore in their own organisations.
The day will feature a mix of workshops, talks and panel discussions about the latest tools, trends and techniques in digital journalism.
We are now working on the event agenda – watch this space for updates.
To give you a better idea of what to expect, you can check out the agenda from our previous event on 6 March 2019 (below).
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| 8:50-9:20am | Registration and coffee | |
| 9:20-9:30am | Welcome
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| 9:30-10:00am | Keynote | ‘Paygates’ not paywalls: changing perspective on audience access to paid news content
Rouven Leuener is group head of digital product at Neue Zürcher Zeitung, one of the oldest German-language newspapers. He took the lead on digital innovation five years ago and, during this time, he launched a number of digital products, such as a text-to-speech audio player feature that converts written articles into audio, to widen audience reach. NZZ believes in paid journalism, which is why it created ‘dynamic paygate.’ The artificial intelligence-powered system predicts the likelihood of a reader becoming a paying subscriber. This means the number of articles available for free varies from user to user before they are prompted to pay for the content. |
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| 10:00-10:45am | Local news: breaking out of the London bubble
This panel will look at significant local journalism projects carried out by large news organisations and will discuss why listening to regional audiences is vital for their success.
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| 10:45-11:15am | Coffee break | |
| 11:15-12:00 | Financing journalism in the digital age
From micropayment and crowdfunding to innovative membership models and crypto-currencies, this panel will look at successful strategies to finance online journalism.
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| 12:00-12:10pm | Spotlight talk: Engage your mobile audience
Fifty-six percent of UK news consumers get their news via smartphone. But although technology has changed the distribution of news dramatically, most stories are still told in the same way as they were 100 years ago. Jacob Gjørtz, VP marketing at CCI Europe, will shed light on how to create stories in visual, mobile-friendly formats to engage today’s audiences. |
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| 12:10-1:00pm | Alexa, how can we monetise content on smart speakers?
Despite the rise in sales of voice-controlled devices, such as Amazon Alexa or Google Home, the difficulty of monetising content holds publishers back from innovating on voice platforms. This panel will explore projects by early adopters and look at the benefits of investing in smart speaker-friendly content.
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| 1:00pm-2:15pm | Networking lunch | |
| 2:15-3:10pm | Auditorium
Blockchain technology: what is it and why should journalists care? For many, blockchain is still a just buzzword. However, this technology can help revolutionise how news content is stored and distributed. This panel will shed the light on what blockchain actually is, as well as its benefits and pitfalls for publishers.
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Workshop room
The enhanced local newsroom Breaking news can shift the news cycle at any moment. With limited resources, journalists in local newsrooms are being asked to do more than ever before. This workshop will explore how local newsrooms are turning to real-time alerting to surface stories in a saturated social media environment. Workshop will be led by Rebekah Smyth who leads the Dataminr for News EMEA operation in London. |
| 3:10-3:15pm | Room change | |
| 3:15-4:10pm | Auditorium
Who is investing in solutions journalism? People are switching off from the news cycle gauged by negativity. This session will explore how solutions journalism can re-engage audiences – and help solve newsrooms’ cashflow problems in the process.
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Workshop room
How to reinvent your mobile storytelling How do you create the best stories for today’s mobile news audience? This workshop will provide you with inspiration on how to create mobile-friendly stories using creative visual formats, such as AMP stories, timelines, and more. The session also gives you a chance to get hands-on experience with CCI’s content creation platform, CUE, which rethinks the anatomy of digital stories. Workshop will be led by Charlotte Kingo Marvig, solution advisor, CCI Europe |
| 4:10-4:40pm | Coffee break | |
| 4:40-5:10pm |
Keynote | Accelerating engagement with local communities Kathryn Geels, director, Engaged Journalism Accelerator, will be sharing updates about her project, explain what is ‘engaged journalism’, and offer insights into the news organisations across Europe that are taking this approach to their work. She will also be sharing learnings and tips with Newsrewired participants that they can take back and apply to their own organisations. |
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| 5:10-5:20pm | Closing remarks | |
| 5:20-7:00pm | Networking drinks | |
We will update the agenda with the speakers’ names as soon as we have them confirmed.
All topics and speakers are subject to change. If you’d like to contribute as a speaker or sponsor, please get in touch by emailing marcela[at]journalism.co.uk.
