A collection of links relating to all elements of the data journalism toolkit session, including blog posts and useful resources that will help you on your way to finding relevant datasets, cleaning them up and preparing to tell a story
Heather Brooke to give keynote at news:rewired – noise to signal
Journalism.co.uk is pleased to announce that award-winning journalist, author, and freedom of information campaigner Heather Brooke will give the keynote speech to open news:rewired – noise to signal on 27 May.
Brooke is best known for her role in bringing MPs expenses – one of the biggest stories of 2009 – to light after a tireless five-year freedom-of-information campaign. She has since worked with the Guardian on the release of WikiLeaks’ US embassy cables, one of the biggest stories of 2010, and written a third book, The Revolution Will be Digitised
Announcing news:rewired – noise to signal, 27 May 2011
Journalism.co.uk’s next news:rewired event will take place on 27 May at Thomson Reuters’ London offices.
What’s it about?
news:rewired – noise to signal is a one-day event for journalists and communications professionals who want to learn more about the latest tools and strategies to filter large datasets, social networks, and audience metrics into a clear signal for both the editorial and business side of the news industry.
Panel sessions will cover: the data journalism toolkit, audience and demographic data, building social media strategies; measuring online reputation; developing the data story through visualisations; community engagement; and how to effectively filter and verify the social media information flow.
Who’s it for?
news:rewired events are for: working journalists with an interest in digital media; media trainers and students; journalism and communications academics; PR and communications professionals; and anyone interested in the future of the journalism and media industries.
How can I learn more?
You can see the full agenda here. You can also subscribe to the news:rewired site to receive updates about the event at this link, or email rachel [at] journalism.co.uk for more information.
news:rewired – what would you like to see?
We’re starting to put our heads together again here at Journalism.co.uk to plan the next news:rewired event, which will offer practical advice from experts in journalism and digital publishing.
We’re eager to open up the planning process this time around and hear from the people that attend our events. What would you like to see covered at our next conference? In what format?
Feel free to contribute ideas on themes, sessions, or workshops, or areas of the industry you like to discuss, or on particular tools and techniques you’d like to see covered.
You can leave your thoughts in the comments box in this post, or tweet us: @newsrewired using the hashtag #newsrw.
#newsrw: Link-by-link coverage of news:rewired – beyond the story
There are plenty of ways to catch-up with all the goings on from news:rewired – beyond the story, so use this post as a guide through the coverage of the day.
Slideshow: news:rewired – beyond the story in pictures
See our speakers and delegates from news:rewired – beyond the story, 16 December 2010, in the slideshow below.
Presentations: SEO for B2B and specialist publishers
We’re sharing as many of the slides and presentations given by our speakers at news:rewired – beyond the story, 16 December 2010, as possible. They’ll be grouped by session or you can view them all by looking at the presentations category on this site.
Videos: news:rewired keynote from Joanna Geary, the Times
Courtesy of the BBC College of Journalism, we’ve got video footage from all of our sessions at news:rewired – beyond the story, 16 December 2010. We’ll be grouping the video clips by session – you can view all footage by looking at the video category on this site.
Videos: Building an online community from scratch
Courtesy of the BBC College of Journalism, we’ve got video footage from all of our sessions at news:rewired – beyond the story, 16 December 2010. We’ll be grouping the video clips by session – you can view all footage by looking at the video category on this site.
Videos: Linked data and the semantic web
Courtesy of the BBC College of Journalism, we’ve got video footage from all of our sessions at news:rewired – beyond the story, 16 December 2010. We’ll be grouping the video clips by session – you can view all footage by looking at the video category on this site.