Digital Editors' Network

This autumn 2013 meeting of the Digital Editors Network on 15 October will definitely not be one to miss. We're being hosted by News Corp on the 13th Floor of their offices near Tower Bridge, where the great views are sure to provide a suitable backdrop for the lively discussions on how innovating news media companies are using data to inform smart content and commercial strategies. Speakers to be confirmed. And, as always, suggestions are welcome.    The Digital Editors Network has worked since 2007 to link media innovators, whether they work inside, outside or alongside mainstream media organisations. You can connect with DEN by  joining our Linkedin group , following us on Twitter @DENupdates or this blog . If you'd like to contribute ideas, speak, host, sponsor or collaborate on  this or a future DEN meetup or workshop, contact the convenors François Nel FPNel@uclan.ac.uk or Nick Turner nick.turner@cumbrian-newspapers.co.uk.

The Digital Editors Network is partnering with Martha Stone of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University to stage the first Big Ideas, Big Data conference in the UK on 7 June 2013. Join the conversation here. Big Ideas, Big Data  Amongst the speakers are:  •Gerd Leonhard, media futurist and Big Data guru •Jim Roberts, Executive Editor, Reuters Digital, and former Assistant Managing Editor, New York Times •Neelay Patel, Vice President, The Economist •Stephen Doig, Pulitzer Prize-winning data journalist & computer-assisted journalism expert and academic •Andy Mitchell, managing director at ANyMedia network, part of DMGMedia, formerly A&N Media including Daily Mail •James Ball, Lead data journalist, Guardian •Sanjeevan Bala, Channel 4 Head of Data Planning and Analytics •Simon Thomas, Strategic Systems Director, Global Analytics and Insight, GroupM EMEA •Dr. Bernie Hogan, Big Data scientist, Oxford Internet Institute, Universit...

#WEF2013 Updates from the 20th World Editors Forum in Bangkok, 2-5 June 2013 For those in the Digital Editors Network who, like me , are too wrapped up to join the 1000+ participants at 20th World Editors Forum in Bangkok from June 2nd to 5th, here's a great way to keep your finger on the pulse. Regular DEN participant (and JLeaders grad) Steve Matthewson , Managing Editor: News for Business Day and BDLive in South Africa, will be in Thailand and has kindly agreed to keep an ear to ground for issues and opportunities that would be of particular interest to DEN folks. In addition, we'll be feeding in the Twitter hashtag  #editors2013 - so join the conversation, too.

#responsiveDEN Coming to you live from the Media Factory

There's little doubt that forward-thinking news publishers big and small will be ramping up their mobile efforts in 2013. But while that may be strategically straightforward, implementing an effective cross-media publishing strategy will continue to present significant technical, organisational and business challenges. With the array of channels and devices increasing, it's probably not surprising that the RWD (Responsive Web Design) vs AWD (Adaptive Web Design) is a hot debate right now. Or that the title for the next Digital Editors Network meetup on 21 Februrary in the Media Factory in Preston is #responsiveDEN. Sure, we'll be taking an indepth look at the various approaches to web design that intends to provide an optimal viewing experience — easy reading and navigation with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling — across a wide range of devices from desktop computer monitors to mobile phones. But we'll also be thinking more laterally about what R...

There’s a lot of talk about Responsive Web Design lately. And, at first glance, it’s not difficult to see why. With the mantra of gather-once-publish-many ringing in their ears, time-poor digital editors are increasingly considering an approach to web design that intends to provide an optimal viewing experience — easy reading and navigation with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling — across a wide range of devices from desktop computer monitors to mobile phones. But what is conceptually straightforward is seldom just that in practice . What are the newsroom implications of following a RWD approach? How are news users responding? And commercial partners? For an in-depth discussion on the issues, join MNA Digital development manager Mark Cadman and electronic editor Abigail Edge   who led team that charted the Express and Star and Shropshire Star ’s route to responsive design at the next Digital Editors Network meetup on 21 February 2013  at the Media Factory in...

Following on from the sold-out Data Journalism Camp in 2011, DEN has combined forces with the MADE project to offer two linked workshops this autumn. Download the flyer here DJCAMP2012 with Paul Bradshaw and Megan Knight is aimed journalists who want to turn data into compelling stories and runs from 9:30am on Friday, September 21 to 5pm on Saturday, September 22 in the Media Factory  on the University of Central Lancashire's Preston Campus. If you want to learn how to build your own data scraper and have at least a basic understanding of software development languages Ruby and / or Python, then there's a four-hour Scraping Masterclass with ScraperWiki founder Julian Todd from 9:30am to 1:30pm on Saturday, September 22, also in the Media Factory.  Both DJCAMP2012 and the Scraping Masterclass are being co-sponsored by the MADE Project and the School of Journalism, Media and Communication at UCLan , More information and registration details are available H...