Digital Editors' Network

The next Digital Editors Network (DEN) meeting, tagged as #distributedDEN, is set to be hosted by Google on September 8th at 123 Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1W 9SH, to discuss how digital publishers and platforms could engage to maximise the opportunities that distributed content offers to them. The rise of new distribution channels (e.g. search and social) has enabled journalism to reaches larger audiences than ever and in many more ways. This means that readers have a nearly limitless amount of news sources to choose from and limitless amount of digital content to spend time with. Key questions that media organisation should ask themselves are: How to distribute their content so it engages the right audiences in line with their strategy?  How are the specific distributed channels different from each other and what does that mean for publishers? With this in mind, the autumn meeting, which is co-organised by François Nel of the University of Central Lancashire, will incl...

That social media are playing an increasinly important role in the process of making and distributing news is widely acknowledged. And, not suprisingly, there's lots of talk amongst news publisher about what social media means for their business. What's rare is a conversation with social media platforms about what a sound, sustainable relationship between those who create news and those who re-aggregate and re-distribute news might look like now - and going forward. That's precisely what we aim to convene when DEN next meets on 8 September 2016 in London. We'll soon be announcing our host and the publshers and platforms who will lead the discussion. This is certainly a date to diarise. If you've not been to DEN meetup before and would like to get advance notices, join our mailing list HERE (We don't pass along contact details, ever!)

That social media are playing an increasinly important role in the process of making and distributing news is widely acknowledge. And, not suprisingly, there's lots of talk amongst news publisher about what social media means for their business. What's rare is a conversation with social media platforms about what a sound, sustainable relationship between those who create news and those who re-aggregate and re-distribute news might look like now - and going forward. That's precisely what we aim to convene when DEN next meets on 8 September 2016 in London. We'll soon be announcing our host and the publshers and platforms who will lead the discussion. This is certainly a date to diarise. If you've not been to DEN meetup before and would like to get advance notices, join our mailing list HERE (We don't pass along contact details, ever!)