Journalism events diary

FIPP World Congress

Date: 9-11/10/17

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The FIPP World Congress brings together the world’s leading multi-platform media publishers and industry suppliers to explore the latest trends and solutions in the industry.

Topics on the agenda include business models, digital transformation, and revenue, with speakers from media companies in the UK, US and Europe.

Venue: Tobacco Quay, Wapping Lane, St Katharine's & Wapping, London E1W 2DA

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International Newsroom Summit 2017

Date: 08-09/11/17

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Over two days, WAN-IFRA's International Newsroom Summit will look at keeping up with the fast pace of change in newsroom organisation by adopting new tools and roles, as well as smart ways to reach new audiences while strengthening loyalty and direct connections with your audience.

Venue: Thomson Reuters, 30 South Colonnade Canary Wharf, London E14 5EP, United Kingdom

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NCTJ Journalism Skills conference

Date: 23-24/11/17

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Delegates will be guests of Sky UK and Kingston University for two days of talks, debate and discussion.

The event, now in its tenth year, will consider some of the latest developments in journalism education and training, looking at the digital skills needed by journalists, sharing practical tips and debating the issues of ethics and trust that arise from the growing role of social media in our industry.

Venue: Hampton Court Palace, Molesey, East Molesey KT8 9AU, United Kingdom

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Digital Innovators' Summit

Date: 19-20/03/18

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Organised by FIPP and VDZ, the Digital Innovators' Summit brings together senior executives from media businesses, technology innovators and solution providers to share ideas, discuss emerging trends and showcase future products.

The conference attracts over 600 senior executives from over 35 countries with attendees including CEOs, managing directors, heads of online and mobile, publishers, editors and content managers, business development marketing and sales.

Venue: Deutsche Telekom Representative Office, Französische Straße 33 a-c, 10117 Berlin, Germany

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Episodic

Date: 20/10/17

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Episodic is the world’s first conference dedicated entirely to episodic storytelling. Speakers, including This American Life producer Starlee Kline, will come from the worlds of TV, games, podcasts, film and fandoms, and share fascinating insights into their business models, tips for getting funding, how they shape stories, and how they listen to audiences.

Episodic is for anyone that wants to learn how to tell stories that people commit to, like you’d commit to a podcast series or a drama on Netflix. It’s for people fascinated by story formats that people want to return to. And it’s for curious storytellers who love learning from people experimenting with new ways of doing things.

Venue: Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London NW1 7AY, United Kingdom

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SND London 2017

Date: 03/11/17

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The Society for News Design (SND) is inviting all creatives to a special face-to-face networking and idea-sharing event – SND London 2017.

SND, for the first time in London, is bringing together the visual journalism community – creative directors, art directors, editors, reporters, illustrators, photographers, video makers, data visualisers and web designers - for a dialogue on innovation and the future of visual journalism.

Topics include: best practices in visual journalism worldwide, interactive graphics and data visualisations, and designing for mobile, among others.

Venue: News UK, 1 London Bridge Street, London SE1 9GF, United Kingdom

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Digital Journalism Summit 2017

Date: 20/10/17

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The conference follows Press Gazette’s Duopoly campaign, which has highlighted concerns about the increasing dominance of Facebook and Google in the UK digital advertising market.

Conference sessions will look at editorial and commercial strategies and give attendees the chance to grill leading Facebook and Google executives on how publishers can make more revenue from the platforms.

Venue: News UK, 1 London Bridge Street, London SE1 9GF, United Kingdom

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'Inside our blind spots: What we report on and what we don't see' media conference

Date: 5-8/10/17

Details: Media NGO N-ost is inviting over 100 European journalists, media managers, activists and academics to take part in a three-day conversation about blind spots, in all senses – the topics and angles that have been left uncovered, and the audiences that were ignored.

What are the consequences of this exclusion? What formats do we need to reach new audiences and keep them? How do we keep the readers engaged with the topics despite the fatigue? What is the right language to discuss the topics that have previously been off-limits, like mental illness and gender-based violence?

Venue: Izolyatsiya Art Centre, Svitloho Shlyakhu St, 3, Donetsk, Ukraine, 83000

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Telling better stories: Strengthening digital journalists’ skills in Nepal

Date: 17-19/08/2017

Details: StoryCycle and the British Embassy in Nepal are holding a series of workshops for digital journalists. The workshops are free to attend and will be delivered by former Guardian journalist Laura Oliver, Mohan Mainali, editor of South Asia Check, and other experienced media professionals.

Journalists can choose from two workshops: digital journalism – latest trends and practices, which will cover how to tell better stories for digital outlets, how to write and promote stories on social media, and how to handle user-generated content and verification; and tools for better storytelling, focusing on using maps, tools and apps for data journalism, creating inforgraphics and verifying information.

Ten professional digital journalists will be selected for each workshop and interested candidates should apply through an online form. The deadline to apply is 5/08 and succesful candidates will be notified on 10/08.

Venue: TBC

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The Power of Storytelling

Date: 16-22/10/2017

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The Power of Storytelling is built around the idea that stories can change our worlds.

The only one of its kind in Eastern Europe, it brings together superstar storytellers in all fields – from media, to arts, to business – to show the potential of stories to connect people, to heal wounds, to move to action, and to drive change.

This year’s theme is 'Closer', where speakers including Jenna Pirog, VR editor at The New York Times, Pat Walters, editor at Gilmet Media, and Sarah Stillman, staff writer at The New Yorker, will tackle the troubling realities of our age – uncertainty, fear, inequality, misinformation –, and look at how stories can explain them, put them in context, while also giving a voice to those that have not been heard.

Venue: Raddison Blu Hotel, Calea Victoriei 63 – 81, District 1,10065 Bucharest, Romania

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European Data and Computational Journalism Conference

Date: 6-7/07/2017

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The European Data and Computational Journalism Conference aims to bring together industry, practitioners and academics in the fields of journalism and news production, and information, data, social and computer sciences, facilitating a multidisciplinary discussion on these topics in order to advance research and practice in the broad area of Data and Computational Journalism.

the conference will present a mix of academic talks and keynotes from industry leaders. It will be followed by a half-day 'Introduction to Data Journalism' workshop and the 'Computational and Data Journalism Unconference'.

Venue: University College Dublin, Stillorgan Road, 4 Dublin, Ireland

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ABSW Science Journalism Summer School 2017

Date: 5/07/2017

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A one-day training event organised by the Association of British Science Writers at the Royal Society in London. Freelance science journalists will discuss sources of work, original approaches, carving out niche areas of specialisation, copyright issues and the tools that they use to manage their time and get an insight into the minds of editors, and a chance to network with those who could commission your stories.

Speakers include Alok Jha (ITV), Dr Richard Fletcher (Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism), Michael Marshall (BBC Earth) and Vicki Turk (Wired UK).

Venue: The Welcome Trust, London

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Global Fact 4

Date: 5-7/07/2017

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The Global Fact-Checking Summit is the premier conference for fact-checkers worldwide. It is the largest international gathering of organisations that regularly publish nonpartisan reports on the accuracy of statements by public figures, major institutions and other widely circulated claims of interest to society.

It is hosted by the International Fact-Checking Network. Global Fact 4 will address topics including lessons from cognitive science for fact-checkers, automation in fact-checking, overcoming organised misinformation campaigns ,and formats for fact-checking.

Venue: Madrid, Spain

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Digital Editors’ Network

Date: 20/06/2017

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Is the future of quality journalism on your mind? Along with Twitter's Global Head of News Peter Greenberger, speakers from Facebook, the BBC, Full Fact, the Conversation, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and the University of Central Lancashire will contribute to the discussion about how quality journalism can over overcome two of its biggest challenges – the corrosive impact of misinformation, and the continuing search for sustainable business models.

Venue: Twitter UK, 20 Air Street, London, W1B 5AG

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Fact checking and solutions journalism event

Date: 14/06/2017

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This practical workshop will introduce 'solutions-focused journalism' with a hands-on session from Emily Kasriel, head of editorial partnerships and special projects at BBC World Service Group, who is steering SFJ in the BBC.

Pupul Chatterjee, data journalist for BBC West, will share examples of her SFJ reporting and how it works at a local level. Paul Bradshaw will discuss live fact-checking with a second screen and other advances in reporting politics in the post-truth age.

This event is aimed at BJTC journalism tutors and students and has been organised following discussions at a BJTC partners day.

Venue: Parkside Building, Birmingham City University, 5 Cardigan Street, B4 7BD Birmingham

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