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Announcing Outbrain as a sponsor of news:rewired

We’re very happy to announce Outbrain as a sponsor of our next news:rewired conference, taking place on Friday 20 September at MSN UK’s offices in Victoria, London.

Dennis Mortensen, Visual Revenue’s founder and former chief executive, will join the session looking at the different types of data that journalists can use to better understand their audience and how stories are received.

Other confirmed speakers on the panel include Richard Moynihan, social media and community manager at Metro UK and Chris Moran, SEO editor at the Guardian.

The full agenda can be found online, and there is still time to join us on the day. Tickets can be bought at this link for just £130 +VAT each.

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Five types of content curation tools for journalists

The opening panel session in our upcoming news:rewired conference on 19 April will cover the growing role of journalists in curating content from social media and the wider web.

With two weeks to go today (tickets still available here!) we decided to highlight some useful tools for differing sectors of content curation. This is by no means an exhaustive or definitive list so feel free to recommend any further tools or platforms in the comments section.

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