The next news:rewired digital journalism conference will take place on Friday 19 April at MSN UK’s offices in Victoria, London. We are again offering delegates the chance to add on an additional day of training with our news:rewired PLUS tickets.
Announcing the first topics for April’s news:rewired conference
We’re pleased to announce the first details for the next news:rewired conference, which will take place on Friday 19 April at MSN UK’s offices in Victoria, London.
The one-day conference will bring together experts and innovators from the digital journalism industry for a day of inspiring presentations, practical workshops and topical discussions. Sessions will focus on the latest techniques and tools being used in forward-thinking newsrooms in the UK and beyond.
Some of the initial themes which we plan to cover at the event:
– curation and the journalist as a manager
– user-generated-content and building the community into the newsgathering process
– data journalism, including where to find data and initial research pointers
– social standards and online etiquette
Sessions will range from panels offering presentations and discussion around certain topics, and more workshop-style sessions, offering demonstrations and practical guides to digital tools.
You can buy tickets for the conference for just £95 +VAT at this link.
Save the date! The next news:rewired is on Friday 19 April – tickets on sale now
news:rewired, the one-day digital journalism conference from Journalism.co.uk, will return next year on Friday 19 April, to MSN UK’s offices in Victoria, London.
The day will look at emerging trends and new tools and techniques being used in the digital journalism space in 2013.
We will be announcing more details soon. Tickets are already on sale at this link.
Presentations: User experience session at #newsrw
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Presentations: Liveblogging workshop at #newsrw
Copies of presentations from the liveblogging workshop at news:rewired – digital stories, on Thursday 6 December, featured talks from Neil Macdonald, head of web and data development, Trinity Mirror in Merseyside, Seb Ramsay, hub news editor, Manchester Evening News and Ben Schneider, senior director and general manager, Demand Media, CoveritLive.
Presentations: Twitter reporting workshop at #newsrw
A copy of the presentation delivered in the Twitter reporting workshop at news:rewired – digital stories on Thursday 6 December, as led by Anna Doble, head of online, Channel 4 News and Jenny Rigby, social media and special projects producer, Channel 4 News.
Presentations: Visual storytelling session at #newsrw
Copies of presentations delivered during the visual storytelling session at news:rewired – digital stories, which looked at the range of techniques and tools being harnessed by news outlets on their sites and across the social web, from the effective use of still images beyond the norm, through to graphics, interactives and visualisations
#newsrw round-up: Coverage, tweets and photos
A Storify to collect together just some of the tweets, coverage and images produced during news:rewired – digital stories on 6 December
2012: Four key digital lessons
The past year has been a whirlwind for many news outlets and the way they work digitally. But what are the main lessons we can learn from 2012?
Panellists at the final session at the news:rewired – digital stories conference were on hand to answer and provided the following key lessons from the past 12 months.
Final programme for news:rewired – which is now sold out
It is just one week until news:rewired – digital stories, Journalism.co.uk’s conference on the latest innovations in digital journalism. The one-day event takes place at MSN UK in Victoria, London on Thursday 6 December.
There will be 37 speakers at the event, sharing case studies and tips on best practices, plus more than 150 delegates from news outlets and media organisations.
Sessions include: a keynote presentation on why news outlets should place data at the heart of the newsroom; how to best find conversations talking place on social media; and digital lessons and talking points of 2012.
There will also be practical sessions on mobile reporting, user experience, visual storytelling and long-form digital journalism, plus workshops on liveblogging, Twitter reporting and audio storytelling.
There will also be a lightning round of short presentations from journalism innovators.

