Audience Engagement

ONA16

F* It, We’ll Do It Live: Workshopping The Hows & Whys Of Live Stream Part II

  • Brandon Echter
  • Claire ONeill

In this session, we’ll dig a bit deeper into the whys of live video — and discuss what might come next. When has live news coverage made sense in the past? What are the...

ONA16

Fireside Chat with Facebook’s Fidji Simo

  • Fidji Simo
  • Moderated by Samantha Barry

We’ll host a candid and insightful chat with Fidji Simo, Facebook’s Director of Product, and Samantha Barry, CNN’s Senior Director of Social News. Given Facebook’s...

ONA16

Planning Chat for Scale by Predicting a Two-Way Conversation

  • Emily Withrow
  • Zach Seward
  • Ariana Tobin

Chat apps and text messages are wonderful tools for starting a back-and-forth conversation with your audience. But as your audience grows into the thousands, how do you maintain...

ONA16

The Election Will Not Be Televised: The 2016 Presidential Reality Show on Social

  • Ashley Codianni
  • Versha Sharma

The 2016 presidential race is unlike anything we’ve seen in generations — and we’ve never had more tools to cover it. We’ll talk about the process for producing pieces on...

ONA16

What We Really Mean When We Talk About Empathy and Analytics

  • Shannon McGregor
  • Scott Smallwood

The conversation around analytics has evolved way beyond simple click metrics; you could say it’s gotten meta. Experts from the Engaging News Project and the Chronicle of Higher...

London16

Crowdsourcing as the Ultimate Strategic Engagement

  • Tobias Dorfer
  • Katerina Stavroula
  • Moderated by Mimi Onuoha

Crowdsourcing is more than harvesting content available on the social web. Mimi Onuoha, co-author of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism’s Guide to Crowdsourcing, will lead an...

London16

Hang Time: How Long Does Your Audience Stay With Your Data?

  • Moritz Klack

Do people actually interact with interactives? How do you make your audience feel emotionally connected with your data? The Berliner Morgenpost’s Moritz Klack will discuss how...

London16

It Just Got Personal: Engagement via Chat Apps

  • Sarah Marshall

Chat apps have emerged as a high-touch, high-engagement opportunity for newsrooms around the world. In particular, Snapchat has quickly risen to become an exciting tool for...

London16

Knocking Down the Language Barrier

  • Stijn Aelbers
  • Moderated by Eliza Anyangwe

Whether we’re talking about the migrant routes in Europe, countries where multiple languages are spoken or conversations around terrorism and extremism, hot-button topics in the...