Delegates attending news:rewired – beyond the story later this month can snap up a free professional headshot on the day thanks to iStockphoto.
Prizes worth £1000 up for grabs in the #newsrw QR code challenge!
We’re offering three news:rewired delegates the chance to win a copy of QuarkXPress 8, Sony noise-cancelling headphones and a bottle of champagne each, worth a £1000 in total. Read more about the prizes and our news:rewired QR code competition
Thoughts from our speakers: The Guardian’s Martin Belam on linked data
In the final two weeks before news:rewired we’ll be publishing some thoughts from our speakers on the subject of their session. We asked Guardian information architect Martin Belam about linked data and how it relates to his own work
Announcing the #newsrw QR Code Challenge
On Thursday 16 December news:rewired is running its next journalism event. During the day you will get to hear from industry leaders and those at the edges of innovation in all forms of news media and also have the opportunity to network with media representatives from a range of organisations. But that is not all.
Links: the digital production desk – more platforms, more potential?
We’re back with more links and resources around some of the discussion topics planned for news:rewired – beyond the story. In this post we’ve collected some tips and articles of interest relating to the digital production desk session, which features speakers Jonathan Richards, Martin Stabe and Vicky Taylor, discussing: the move to digital platforms and production desks; the new tools and opportunities on offer and also how to apply traditional skills to the new media environment.
Introducing new speakers for news:rewired – beyond the story
We’ve been adding new speakers to our agenda for news:rewired – beyond the story over the past few weeks. In case you missed the changes, here’s who is joining us.
Links: Gaming and journalism – what can we learn?
The final session of news:rewired – beyond the story will look at how elements of computer, video and social gaming could be used by journalists and media organisations. We want to get you thinking about how gaming technologies, storytelling techniques and relationships between games and their players might be incorporated into journalism.
It might not be something you’ve thought about before, but there’s already some pretty interesting research and blog posts being written on the subject, which we’ve rounded up.
Announcing the final session: Are we ready to play the journalism game?
In the final panel debate of Journalism.co.uk’s news:rewired event in June, the nouveau niche, Philip Trippenbach, an interactive producer and games designer, declared to our delegates that “video games are the future of journalism”.
It’s important for us to realise that games are a medium just like text and pictures. As complex data sets become more and more available, the interactivity around it becomes more important – video games are a great way of doing that.
In this way, ‘games’ could provide an opportunity to do something different with data, something which really draws the reader into the news and involves them in the creation or impact of the story. It touches on many of the key terms in journalism today – interactivity, personalisation, engagement.
Links: Branding and entrepreneurialism – standing out from the crowd
Here are some more useful links and resources on topics up for debate at news:rewired – beyond the story.
This time we’re looking at Branding and entrepreneurialism, with Rory Brown, Molly Flatt, Rick Waghorn and Alex Wood, getting advice from those who have already bought the ‘making it on your own’ T-shirt and those who are just taking their first steps as an entrepreneur in the media business. And it’s not just about the individual, or startup – what about long-established news organisations? How should they be balancing and communicating their own business brands with that of their individual journalists? Or is branding really the journalist’s domain at all?
news:rewired – hear from ‘beyond the story’ speakers why you should come
On Thursday 16 December Journalism.co.uk will bring you news:rewired – beyond the story, offering practical advice from experts in journalism and digital publishing. The day-long event will look at the processes and technology beyond producing content that can make your journalism and communications more powerful.
The sessions will include: building communities for content from scratch; search engine optimisation for specialist publishers; new business ideas; building a brand and what linked data and the semantic web mean for journalists.
Take a closer look at the event with our video and hear more on the topics to be discussed from three of our scheduled speakers. Malcolm Coles, director of Digital Sparkle explains why effective SEO is often missing from publisher websites and how to rectify this; Rory Brown from Briefing Media discusses the necessary attributes of a media entrepreneur; and the Guardian’s Martin Belam talks about the importance of linked data and the semantic web to journalists in an increasingly open data world.