Next month’s meeting of the Digital Editors’ Network is promising a range of high-profile speakers willing to share their expertise with regional journalists working online.
Organiser Nick Turner says the free event at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston on Tuesday, February 3 will include the elements listed below before a panel discussion looking at the economics of journalism takes place in the evening:
• An insight into the digital transformation of the Daily Telegraph when Mark Skipworth, executive editor of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph gives the University’s Harris Lecture.
• A discussion about how newspapers can best make use of their archives in the digital age with a presentation by Patrick Fleming, head of reader and reference services at the British Library.
• The Guardian blogs editor Kevin Anderson on lessons learned from the social media coverage of the UK presidential election. With a UK election lurking somewhere on the political horizon it should be an informative and useful session.
• Eric Ulkin, former Los Angeles Times online editor, will talk about building the LA Times datadesk and alternative forms of story building.
The day will also include a networking reception and a Journalism Leaders Forum in the evening with BBC Business Editor Robert Peston joining the panel for a discussion entitled: ‘Reviewing the bottom line: the journalism of economics and the economics of journalism’
The Guardian’s Blogs Editor Kevin Anderson will chair the discussion and panelists will include: Robert Peston, BBC Business Editor; Kate McKenzie, interactive editor, FT.com; Arthur Porter, publisher, Crain’s Business (Manchester) and Chris Barry, editor, TheBusinessDesk.com (North West).
I shall be posting more at this blog from the event but if you want to attend and get further details, please email Nick Turner nturner@cngroup.co.uk.
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