The General Election of May 2010 was widely touted as the UK’s first social media election, but panellists addressing a session on election coverage at today’s news:rewired conference in London agreed that 2015 will be the year where social media really comes into its own
As it happened: Visual storytelling session
Multimedia, interactive elements and visualisations can help stories stand out, but how and where are these elements best used? This workshop session of news:rewired explored the topic. This is the archived version of the live blog
As it happened: Measuring success workshop session
This workshop session at news:rewired looked at how journalists, newsrooms and commercial departments may need to take different approaches to analysing their work. This is an archived version of the live blog
How to innovate your newsroom
During a session on experimentation in the newsroom, today at the news:rewired conference in London, Amanda Farnsworth, head of visual journalism with the BBC, Pat Long, head of news development with the Times and Sunday Times, and Alessio Balbi, head of audience engagement with Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso (Italy), told delegates about their lessons of starting innovation in a newsroom
As it happened: Engaging younger audiences
This session of the news:rewired conference looked at some of the ways news outlets are reaching out to 16-34 year old readers, with a focus on mobile and social strategies. This is the archived live blog
As it happened: Approaching the elections session
With the UK general elections looming, this panel session at the news:rewired conference looked at the new approaches journalists take to analyse results and produce engaging coverage. This is the archived live blog of the session
Guardian digital chief: Killing off comments ‘a monumental mistake’
The Guardian’s executive editor for digital, Aron Pilhofer, described the trend among news sites of switching off reader comments as a “monumental mistake”
As it happened: Experimenting in the newsroom
This second session of news:rewired looked at how three newsrooms are trying new ideas and finding success in innovation. This is the archived live blog
As it happened: Keynote from Aron Pilhofer
In the opening keynote Aron Pilhofer, executive editor of digital at The Guardian, discussed the importance of visual presentation in modern digital journalism
New speakers and lunchtime workshops announced
With just 10 days to go until the next news:rewired we are excited to announce our final speakers, as well as three optional lunchtime workshops.
Eric Athas, senior digital news specialist at NPR, and Neelay Patel, senior vice president of incubation and innovation at The Economist, will be joining Anna Doble on the New Wave in Audio session.
Didier Hamann, editor-in-chief of Le Soir in Belgium, will be joining the Engaging Younger Audiences session to talk about the outlet’s project #25, alongside Jeroen Zanen of Crowdynews.
Christian Payne, blogger, trainer and creative technologist, will be revealing some of his favourite apps and tools for creating interactives in the visual storytelling session.
Last but not least, Paul Gallagher, digital innovations editor at the Manchester Evening News, Ben Kreimer of the Drone Journalism Lab and Julia Wurz of Bullet News will be discussing drones, Google Glass and smart watches on the emerging technology panel.