When we announced the first details for news:rewired – digital stories, we mentioned plans to run a lightning round of short presentations from innovators in the digital journalism space.

We’re now pleased to announce just some of the projects to be presented on the day across two planned lighting rounds, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, at the one-day conference on Thursday 6 December (see the agenda here).

Tickets are still available for the conference, buy yours here for just £130 +VAT, or £310 (+VAT) for a news:rewired plus ticket, which includes a day’s intensive training on Wednesday 5 December as well as the day-long conference on Thursday 6 December.

The first projects include:
– Augmented Reality. Speaker: Sarah Hartley, managing director, Talk About Local
– Storination. Speaker: François Laforestrie, chief executive
– Ocqur. Speaker: Joseph Stashko, operations director
– Social Sensor. Speaker: Nic Newman, digital strategist

We’re pleased to announce Finnish mobile photo service Scoopshot as the latest sponsor of news:rewired – digital stories, which takes place on Thursday 6 December.

The one-day conference will bring together key digital journalism experts and innovators for a day of sessions, workshops, debates and discussion, geared towards equipping delegates with knowledge of the latest techniques and tools for producing top-notch digital journalism.

Tickets are still available for the conference for just £130 (+VAT). Lunch and refreshments will also be provided at the day-long event, as well as networking drinks afterwards.

There is also a news:rewired PLUS ticket option for just £310 (+VAT), which includes both a day’s intensive training on the Wednesday (5 December) and the day-long conference on the Thursday (6 December).

The project, which is led by the University of Central Lancashire, is centred on a desire to connect print newspapers to the internet and develop paper which can sense touch and offer responses to that, such as by playing audio