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As it happened: Press play: What works in online video?

Publishers are now competing for attention with services such as Netflix and Amazon Instant Video – so what are the best news video formats to engage your audience?This ‘in-depth’ session will explore production techniques and strategies behind interactive web documentaries, making on-demand video for multiple platforms, and striking the balance between TV and digital. Играчи от […]

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Livestreaming and 360-degree video: Announcing more speakers and a lunchtime workshop at news:rewired

With two weeks to go until news:rewired ‘video focus’ on 16 March at Reuters in Canary Wharf, London, here are the latest updates to the programme – we’re adding a new ‘spotlight’ talk about live video, a lunchtime workshop from Periscope, and a new speaker will be joining our 360-degree video panel.

The event is now sold out – but details of the next news:rewired will be announced soon.

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Latest news:rewired updates: Check out the agenda and more speakers just announced

With a month to go until the next news:rewired event, which takes a look at the challenges and opportunities in editorial video, Journalism.co.uk is pleased to announce the programme for the day, as well as new speakers joining our expert line-up.

Tickets are available for just £165+VAT and spaces are limited – so book yours now to avoid missing out.

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Engaging online video and mobile journalism: More speakers announced for news:rewired ‘video focus’

The next news:rewired ‘video focus’ is fast approaching – with a little over a month to go until the event, we are pleased to announce three more speakers from CNN, Reuters and Sky News will be joining our expert line-up on the day.

The conference, focused entirely on editorial video and the opportunities and challenges it brings into the newsroom, will take place on 16 March at Reuters in Canary Wharf, London. Tickets are available for £165+VAT.

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First speakers announced for #newsrw ‘video focus’

With just under two months to go until news:rewired ‘video focus’, we are pleased to announce our first confirmed speakers. Experts from NowThis, the BBC, The Wall Street Journal and The Economist will join us to discuss the latest video formats and the challenges and opportunities they bring into the newsroom.

The digital journalism conference takes place on 16 March 2016 at Reuters in Canary Wharf, London, and tickets are now available for £165+VAT.

Here’s a sneak peek at the programme.

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Announcing the next news:rewired – video focus, 16 March

Journalism.co.uk is pleased to announce the next news:rewired event will take place on 16 March 2016 at Reuters, in Canary Wharf, London. Video has been dominating digital and social strategies as more people engage with videos online and on their mobile phones. Facebook alone reported 8 billion daily video views on the platform, and Snapchat […]

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Slides and audio – Building the news: In-house tools for the newsroom

In this session, we looked at the resources needed in the newsroom to develop tools and templates, the collaborative approach between developers and journalists and the open-source movement. We heard from Nick Petrie, deputy head of digital, The Times and The Sunday Times, Jacqui Maher, interactive journalist, BBC News Labs and Elliot Bentley, graphics editor, The Wall Street Journal. […]

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Slides and audio – International investigations

Our guest speakers on the international investigations workshop were Jacopo Ottaviani, a data journalist who has worked on projects like The Migrants Files, Generation E, E-waste Republic, and Lawrence Marzouk, editor of the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network. They gave delegates tips and advice for working on this type of projects as part of larger teams, and recommended tools […]

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Slides and audio – The bigger picture: Putting news into context

This workshop took an in-depth look at the different approaches to putting breaking news and ongoing stories into context, through newsletters, cards and explainers. Below are the slides from Jeremy Evans, founder of Explaain, and the audio recording from the session with Richard Moynihan, new formats editor at The Telegraph, moderated by Jane Singer, professor of journalism innovation […]

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Slides and audio – Longform video for the mobile generation

The first workshop of the afternoon discussed longform video for the mobile generation, looking at the best approaches for producing documentaries between 20 minutes and one hour in length, as well as how to distribute this material. In this session, we heard from: Yonni Usiskin, executive producer, Vice News Matthew Danzico, founder, BBC Pop Up […]

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