paul gallagher

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#newsrw: Three pieces of advice for mobile reporting from Sky’s Nick Martin

Sky News correspondent Nick martin advises mobile reporters to investigate accessories that can enhance video and sound quality, to practise and “take the rough with the smooth”, and to ensure mobile reporting is only used when appropriate.

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#newsrw: A round-up of the best blogs from news:rewired – noise to signal

We’ve rounded up some of the best coverage of news:rewired from speakers and delegates alike and collected it together in one handy post.

Speaker Nicola Hughes – DataMinerUK has written a detailed summary of her talk in the sorting the social media chaos session, complete with tips on her favourite journalism tools.

On the Reuters Blog Mark Jones, who spoke in the social media strategy session, used Storify to round up Tweets, pictures and text from across the day.

And RBI’s Adam Tinworth heroically liveblogged every session he was in. Including the liveblogging session.

For all this and more, continue reading…

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#newsrw: ‘It’s almost as if the liveblog is the new home page’

Live blogs are Twitter for people not on Twitter, according to the panelists on the Is liveblogging rewriting journalism? session at news:rewired. Guardian blogs editor Matt Wells explained how the liveblog changes the structure of news stories away from the traditional inverted triangle and into an open-ended form

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