News Impact Summit London

This event will take place at the Sheikh Zayed Theatre on the LSE campus in London.

On Friday 5 June 2015, the News Impact Summit, a free of charge digital journalism conference will take place in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre on the LSE campus in London. This summit will centre on the theme – The Social Impact of Digital Storytelling – and shed a light on how digital age journalism plays a role in resulting the social impact, whether it is during the general election, natural disasters or humanitarian conflicts.

The Frontline Club has joined the international consortium of the organisers led by the European Journalism Centre, the News Lab at Google, LSE’s Polis think-tank. Participants will be offered free lunch and drinks during this event as well as a networking opportunity with the guests from the leading international and UK media outlets.

Speakers:
– George Arnett, data journalist, The Guardian
– Charlie Beckett, director, Polis at LSE
– Fergus Bell, head of newsroom partnerships and innovation, SAM
– Wendy Betts, director of eyeWitness, The International Bar Association
– John Burn-Murdoch, data journalist, The Financial Times
– Matt Cooke, European lead, News Lab at Google
– Evangeline de Bourgoing, programme manager, Global Editors Network
– Matthew Eltringham, editor, Journalism BBC Academy
– Miranda Green, freelance journalist
– Steve Herrmann, editor, BBC News Online
– Rohan Jayasekara, technology hub adviser, Internews
– Christoph Koettl, adviser on technology and human Rights, Amnesty International
– Megan Lucero, data journalism editor, The Times and Sunday Times
– Jason Mills, head of digital, ITV News
– Paul Myers, researcher, BBC
– Gavin Rees, director, Dart Centre Europe
– Allison Rockey, engagement editor, Vox.com
– Wilfried Ruetten, director, European Journalism Centre
– Frédérik Ruys, data journalist for ‘Netherlands from Above’, VPRO
– George Sargent, producer, Thomson Reuters
– Rina Tsubaki, European Journalism Centre
– Julia Ziemer, Polis at LSE

Partners:
Frontline Club
GEN
Amnesty International
Dart Centre Europe
eyeWitness
Internews
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
SAM
Foreign Press Association

For further details see here or contact the organisers via [email protected]

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Website: http://newsimpact.io