FULL DETAILS for Twitter, the Butterfly effect and the Future of Journalism

Hosted by: mashup* Event

Location: Innovation Warehouse

Monday, February 13 at 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Price £10 (Please register here)

Speakers                                                                                                                        
 

Paul Lewis Guardian Special Projects Editor                                                     
Anna Doble Senior Producer Channel4 News                                             
Andrew Walker Co-Founder Tweetminster & Thin Martian                         
Steve Butterworth Founder of Flumes Media

Whether it’s the exposing of super injunctions, middle eastern revolutions or the occupy movement social media is having an ever more significant impact on our society and people’s desire for change. In this 2 hour session, we explore how twitter is changing the news industry, how journalists use social media to connect to the story and how collaborative reporting is leading to activism and change.
David Carr of the New York Times recently said ‘The media is not the message, the messages are the media”. We’ll talk about what this means for the industry. We’ll discuss the new economics and business models around online news publishing and how social media impacts these. Join us for an enlightening, interactive debate with a mixture of journalists and social media fanatics around the theme of managing and monetizing collaborative journalism. More details of schedule and speakers coming very soon.     

Paul Lewis, Guardian Special Projects Editor

Paul was named Reporter of the Year at the British Press Awards 2010 and won the 2009 Bevins Prize for outstanding investigative journalism. He previously worked at the Washington Post as the Stern Fellow.

Anna Doble Senior Producer Channel4 News  

Andrew Walker Co-Founder Tweetminster & Thin Martian  

Andrew will be discussing how the nature of interactive media has changed the way we consume journalism online.  He'll be showing stats on the types of news articles that have been shared the most on Twitter by political influencers (MPs, Govt. Departments, local councillors and party activists) and comparing how major news brands fare in their digital strategies. Answering the question of what is the best approach for journalists to gain social traction in networks like Facebook and Twitter?

Steve Butterworth Founder of Flumes Media

Steve is a tech entrepreneur with a passion for building tools that deal with the big issues. Steve has a background in designing and building big data software for they worlds largest intelligence agencies and corporations. Steve’s latest venture is Flumes a web application that aims to make it much easier to track the most important world events via social media.

Steve will talk about how social media is disrupting the way we discover and investigate news stories. Steve will also cover how social media is fast becoming the standard route for getting to the best news content in record time. He’ll cover citizen journalism and how this works hand in hand with professional journalism to build the most transparent and democratic stories that can engage the audience and lead to action.