news:rewired: First speakers and sessions announced

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We are excited to announce the first speakers and sessions for the next news:rewired digital journalism conference on 23 July at MSN UK's offices in London.

• Trushar Barot, assistant editor, BBC UGC and social media hub, will be joining the panel for a session on private social media networks such as Snapchat, WhatsApp and WeChat.
• Nazanine Moshiri, roving correspondent, Al Jazeera English, will be taking part in a session on how journalists are using the social news site Reddit.
• Sarah Marshall, social media editor, EMEA, at the Wall Street Journal, will be leading a session on social media tools for journalists.

Tickets for news:rewired are available now for £130 +VAT.

You can also purchase tickets as a package alongside a one-day journalism training course with news:rewired+ for just £300 +VAT.

The training courses will take place the day after news:rewired, on 24 July. Choose from:

• Mobile journalism: Create multimedia on iPhone & iPad, led by Glen Mulcahy, innovation lead at RTÉ
• Creating a buzz: How to grow social media communities, led by Luke Lewis, editor of BuzzFeed UK
• Data journalism online, led by Conrad Quilty-Harper, data journalist atAmpp3d

Visit the news:rewired website to buy tickets , and watch this space for more agenda announcements coming soon.