Digital Editors' Network

Should newspapers be held accountable for tweets by journalists or their blogs? Where should corrections appear online and should there be some kind of standard mark for professionally produced content? These are some of the questions about online standards that digital editors will be discussing next month when they meet in Manchester. Will Gore of the Press Complaints Commission will tell the Digital Editors' Network why the PCC has launched a consultation to consider how its remit should extend into the online world. Also speaking at the October 14th meeting which is being held at MADLab in Manchester is Ben Edwards of PageSuite, creators of perhaps the first regional newspaper iPad app. He will talk about how integrating new platforms can deliver new revenues. And what publishers need to do make that happen. And Francis Irving , one of the key forces behind MySociety and now ScraperWiki, will tell the Digital Editors' Network why he's working to build the w...

Can't make it to Salford Quays today? Why not join the #DENDATAMEET discussion here from 13:15. The programme is below. #dendatameet 13.15 Welcome and introductions: Maureen Walker , Head of Broadcast, Music and Publishing, will introduce the session and say a few words about Vision+Media. DEN's co-convenors François Nel (UCLan) and Nick Turner (CN Group) will chair the discussions. The Speakers 13.30 Julian Tait is one of the organizers of the FutureEverything conference, that is working to make Manchester the UK’s first OpenData City. 14.00 Paul Bradshaw is the author of the Online Journalism Blog, and convenor of the HelpMeInvestigate project. 14.30 Martin Belam is the information architect in the Guardian’s web development team. He also blogs at Currybetdonet. 15.15 BREAK 15.45 Propublica reporter Olga Pierce and news application developer Jeff Larson will discuss the process of building layered data stories at the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative news site. 16...

Ollie Jones might have had a point, but I think there's a case to be made that in the Digital Age it's data, not love, that makes the world go round. How can news publishers access useful sources of data and how can they put it to use to serve users and to build revenue? That's the theme for the next Digital Editors Network meeting on May 12th at the offices of Northwest Vision & Media at Media City in Salford Quays. Speakers are: Julian Tait , an organiser of the FutureEverything conference who's working to make Manchester the UK's first OpenData City . Paul Bradshaw , author of the Online Journalism Blog and convenor of the HelpMeInvestigate project. Martin Bellam , information architect for the the Guardian.co.uk, the information architect in the Guardian 's web development team. He blogs at Currybetdonet . Propublica reporter Olga Pierce and news application developer Jeff Larson will discuss the process of building layered data stories at the Pu...

As we grapple with how to create revenues with our online brands it's obvious that we must understand more about our audiences than just whether the number of unique users is increasing month on month. How much of our audience are regular visitors or eager participants in our online comemnt forums? How many are based abroad and how many are just dipping in to follow a link to one page? Our Winter 2010 meeting will allow you to compare notes other digital editors and see how your site measures up to industry trends. Editors from four of the UK's leading news organisations will "lift the bonnet" on their strategies to engage audiences – and the metrics they use to measure the success of their efforts – in a Chatham House Rule-discussion in Preston. The programme will run from 1:30-5pm on February 25 th , with registration & lunch from 1pm in the Adelphi Conference Room at the University of Central Lancashire. The session aims to assist you in addressing some linked...