The purpose of this masterclass is to provide journalists and journalism students with the knowledge base to use Twitter and its ecosystem of apps to search, surface and verify relevant and newswort...

Description to come. Organised in association with Twitter.

This panel aims at raising awareness among fellow journalists (and readers) on how issues concerning the African continent are treated, urging them to spread more carefully qualified news and events...

Journalistic professionalism and ethics dilemmas in China under social media challenges Presenter: Ye Jin, PhD Candidate, University of Coventry The environment for contemporary news reporting in ...

Organised in association with Google.

This session focuses on the successful launch in Italy of The Local, the largest English-language news network in Europe, and the highs and lows of the past two years in the country. With tradition...

When it comes to news sites, audiences are showing a growing appetite for interactivity, with quizzes and games often ranking amongst publishers' most popular stories of the year. Meanwhile, some of...

For the last few years the rise of data journalism has generated some hope that newsrooms could make use of new technologies for better reporting. But what about enabling newsrooms to create new servi...

Organised in association with Google.

Too often journalists tell their readers and viewers what they consider to be the problem. Reporters sometimes try to find ways to prove their own beliefs instead of listening to the real-life expe...