Video: Curation panel session at news:rewired

Video of the opening joint session at news:rewired on 19 April, which looked at the role of journalists as curators of content across the web,

The panel featured: Cory Haik, executive producer for digital news, The Washington Post; Matt McAlister, lead on the Guardian’s n0tice platform; Michael Rundle, technology editor, Huffington Post UK; Michael De Monte, founder and chief executive, ScribbleLive.

Curation tips: How big news organisations are managing information

Speakers from ScribbleLive, the Huffington Post, n0tice and The Washington Post told the news:rewired conference how journalists are now curating the news.

How Facebook’s new content and curation features can help journalists

Vadim Lavrusik, Journalism programme manager at Facebook, shares tips on how journalists can use the social network.

Speaking at news:rewired, in London today, Lavrusik explained how to use search, subscribe and other features.

As it happened: Curation session at news:rewired

This session of news:rewired looked at the growing role of the journalist as a manager of information from the social web and beyond. Our speakers shared some key skills, tools and techniques for effective curation across different forms of digital news delivery, from the liveblog to innovative collections of content shared on social media.

Our speakers were Cory Haik, executive producer for digital news, The Washington Post; Matt McAlister, lead on the Guardian’s n0tice platform; Michael Rundle, technology editor, Huffington Post UK; and Michael De Monte, founder and chief executive, ScribbleLive.

Nieman: The NYT joins with YouTube and Storyful for 9/11 video reflections

The New York Times is collaborating with YouTube and curation platform Storyful in a bid to collect videos from the public answering questions about what 9/11 meant to them

Five curation tools all journalists should know about

Ahead of the integrated storytelling session at newsrewired – connected journalism we’ve pulled together just five examples of the tools and platforms available to journalists to help them pull in content from across the web.

On the day of the event (6 October) Xavier Damman, the co-founder of Storify, perhaps one of the most popular curation tools, will be appearing to speak about the possibilities the platform offers.

You can buy tickets, which cost £130+VAT, here.

Speaker presentations: Session 1B – Sorting the social media chaos

This post offers presentations from Session 1B – Sorting the social media chaos featuring: Nicola Hughes, data journalist, Data Miner UK; Alex Gubbay, social media editor, BBC News; Neal Mann, freelance field producer, Sky News and Fergus Bell, senior producer, Associated Press. Moderated by Suw Charman-Anderson, social technologist.

Links: Session 1B – sorting the social media chaos

In the run up to news:rewired – noise to signal, we’re posting useful links and resources for each of the sessions. In the second post in this series, we look at session 1B: Sorting the social media chaos