Our 30th digital journalism conference Newsrewired is fast approaching on 24 May 2022.
The goal of Newsrewired is to give attendees practical insights into how they can keep up with industry trends and do their job to a high standard, and we focus on equipping our attendees with tools they can take back and implement in their newsroom.
We are delighted to announce our keynote speaker, Syrian journalist, activist and consultant Zaina Erhaim.
Zaina will kick off the conference with a talk that sets the other sessions in context. She explores what it means to do journalism at a time when the media faces threats from repressive regimes, financial pressures, and growing polarisation.
As a journalist working in her home country of Syria when war broke out in 2011, Zaina reported on the conflict and has won multiple awards for her journalism and training work. She directed the documentary series Syria’s Rebellious Women, and has worked with the BBC, Alhayat, Orient TV, the Guardian, the Economist, and Die Zeit.
She has also trained hundreds of citizen reporters, with a focus on empowering women to do journalism. This made her directly or indirectly responsible for a large proportion of eyewitness journalistic accounts of the Syrian war.
Zaina will talk about the role every journalist can and must play in securing the future of a strong and free media, touching on the questions of objectivity, building trust in communities, misinformation, and the line between journalism and activism. These questions are sadly as crucial today as they ever have been, in an era where polarisation is driving divides at every level of society.
Zaina is one of around 30 industry experts to be speaking at Newsrewired. The event will include hands-on workshops on using AI to meet audience needs and polishing your first-party data strategies, as well as insightful panels from training and retaining new journalists to navigating relationships with platforms, and fireside chats to get the inside scoop on newsletters and reaching young audiences. Head to newsrewired.com to see the full agenda and to book your tickets.
Our speakers
Katie Carroll, head of industry and creator operations, LinkedIn
John Crowley, editor, consultant and co-founder, Headlines Network
Shivani Dave, Journalist and broadcaster
Oli Dugmore, head of politics, JOE Media
Sarah Ebner, head of newsletters, Financial Times
Kim Fletcher, chairman, NCTJ
Vicky Gayle, Bureau Local reporter, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Dr Zahera Harb, leader of International Journalism studies cluster at City, University of London
Paul Kanareck, chief customer & commercial officer, Guardian Media Group
Emily Kasriel, head of editorial partnerships and special projects, BBC World Service
Yasir Khan, editor-in-chief, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Lexie Kirkconnell-Kawana, head of regulation, IMPRESS
Tara Lajumoke, managing director, FT Strategies
Amy Lewin, editor, Sifted
Lisa MacLeod, publishing lead, FT Strategies
Rob McNeil, deputy director, Migration Observatory
George Montagu, subscription strategy lead, FT Strategies
Warren Nettleford, co-founder, NEED TO KNOW
Cristina Nicolotti Squires, director of content, Sky News
Sumaiya Omar, co-founder and editor-in-chief, Seen
Jonathan Paterson, head of news, The News Movement
Mattia Peretti, JournalismAI manager, Polis
Edward Roussel, head of digital, The Times and The Sunday Times
Meera Selva, deputy director, Reuters Institute
Chandni Sembhi, founder, So You Want to be a Journalist
Emily Sexton Brown, assistant managing editor, Business Insider
Farrah Storr, head of writer partnerships, Substack UK
David Taylor, news editor, Tortoise
Zing Tsjeng, editor-in-chief, Vice UK
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