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#newsrw buzz: Round-up of blog posts from news:rewired – connected journalism

A round-up of some of the blogs posts written by delegates and speakers at Journalism.co.uk conference news:rewired – connected journalism, which was held at MSN’s London offices on Thursday, 6 October

This post includes links to session summaries, reflective blog posts and videos

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#newsrw: A round-up of the best blogs from news:rewired – noise to signal

We’ve rounded up some of the best coverage of news:rewired from speakers and delegates alike and collected it together in one handy post.

Speaker Nicola Hughes – DataMinerUK has written a detailed summary of her talk in the sorting the social media chaos session, complete with tips on her favourite journalism tools.

On the Reuters Blog Mark Jones, who spoke in the social media strategy session, used Storify to round up Tweets, pictures and text from across the day.

And RBI’s Adam Tinworth heroically liveblogged every session he was in. Including the liveblogging session.

For all this and more, continue reading…

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#newsrw: ‘There is no point in having data unless you have context to go with it’

Open data is essential, but useless without context – that was the consensus at the local data session. A lively debate took place, where delegates heard from a range of speakers and their attempts to fill the niche in local data, creating “open data cities” and encouraging transparency

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