Can the iTunes model fit the news industry? Is it better to sell 100,000 articles at one cent rather than 1,000 articles at one euro? This Bootcamp will reveal the benefits for digital media to unbundle content and use specific sales platforms. The potential is strong: from digital kiosks selling individual articles to paid services using bitcoins. Some predict a brilliant future for these platforms focused on new users but others think the dream of larger distribution will become a nightmare. Penny for your thoughts?
We are in the prehistory of wearable news: the devices exist, but not yet their uses in both content creation and consumption. Connected watches and other wearable devices may or may not disrupt journalism, but they will definitely be a new way to consume news through text to speech or speed-reading technologies. Sensor journalism is also on the rise, a sophisticated blend of crowdsourcing, big data and wearables. This bootcamp will allow editors to better judge the difference between gadgets and relevant new devices that improve news distribution and empower journalists and audiences.
Immersive storytelling is becoming a reality through new devices allowing to us to tell stories through stereoscopic 3D, 360-degree visuals, and 100-degree fields of vision. Virtual Reality journalism also encompasses interactive glasses and softer technologies. The goal of this bootcamp is to showcase all possibilities offered to editors and to analyse the latest experiments. Young audiences are the first targets of these news ways to tell stories but the scope will quickly expand. Tomorrow virtual reality can become a mass media.
The architectural complex of Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau is an unmistakable landmark in the culture and heritage of Barcelona. Dating back to 1902, its architectural and patrimonial value extends beyond its urban location and the site has won European and international acclaim. In 1997, together with the Palau de la Música Catalana (one of the world's leading concert halls), the Hospital was declared World Heritage by UNESCO for its singular architectural and artistic beauty. A visit to this magnificent complex allows you to delve into history, art and the present day. The pavilions, set among gardens and connected by underground passages, are breathtakingly beautiful and a showcase for the applied arts, featuring sculptures, stained glass and mosaics.
Supported by Generalitat de Catalunya
Address: Carrer de Sant Quintí, 89
In the newsroom, social media can be your best friend or your worst enemy. One thing is certain, you cannot ignore it. Taking advantage of shifting mobile consumption habits can turn social media into your ally. How can you redesign your newsroom's structure to turn valuable traffic into meaningful conversations?
Keynote Dialog: Samantha Barry, Head of Social Media and Senior Director of Strategy, CNN, with the participation of Anne-Marie Tomchak, Reporter and Presenter, BBC Trending.
Time has sped up for smartwatch innovation and the race is on to crack the content delivery code on this new interface. When media organisations are trying to repackage and monetise content in the Internet of Things era, News Republic, winner of the 'Best Mobile Media and Publishing App Award' at Mobile World Congress 2015, has successfully launched its news apps on Samsung Gear and Apple’s iWatch. Their CEO will share his experiences from his company’s journey on this newest frontier for news.
Twenty-five media organisations from all over the world are the "founding partners" of the Climate Publishers Network in May 2015. CPN is a mutual syndication of articles related to climate change free of charge during the run-up to COP 21. Each media organisation will be able to re-publish material free of license fees.
Startups for News is an international competition rewarding the most innovative startups disrupting the media industry. GEN is hunting for startups that challenge the status quo with new editorial services for newsrooms or new ways of delivering journalistic content.
Through this programme, GEN is helping facilitate interaction between startup innovators and senior media executives with the goal of implementing new innovative practices in the newsroom.
Live streaming services such as Meerkat and Periscope are reinventing live news coverage. Consumers can now access or broadcast an uninterrupted stream of live events anywhere around the world with nothing but a smartphone in hand. The prospect of incorporating these tools in newsrooms will not only enhance reporting, but also provide better engagement with new audiences.
Founded in 1996, Al Jazeera is now one of the largest news operations in the world, priding itself on independence, impartiality, and professionalism. With more than 80 bureaus across the globe, the network has expanded to the United States, Turkey, and the Balkans in order to widen its distribution footprint and bring its around-the-clock programming and web presence to more audiences. How is Al Jazeera maintaining its award-winning news reporting and programming in a rapidly changing global media landscape?
Startups for News is an international competition rewarding the most innovative startups disrupting the media industry. GEN is hunting for startups that challenge the status quo with new editorial services for newsrooms or new ways of delivering journalistic content.
Through this programme, GEN is helping facilitate interaction between startup innovators and senior media executives with the goal of implementing new innovative practices in the newsroom.
This year’s report will show a quickening of the pace towards social and mobile news, a decline in the desktop internet, and significant growth in video news consumption online. It will also provide updated data on online news subscriptions across countries, the rise of ad blockers and explore consumer attitudes to native advertising and sponsored content.
Web traffic means that you almost know everything about your users: when they arrive, how long they stay on each page, what they read, where they go when they leave you. Real-time metrics are great for suggesting more personalised content for your readers and more specific targeting for your advertisers. Not all newsrooms are created equal under data, yet every one has the potential. We have selected the most advanced media on the cutting-edge of profiling and personalisation.
Startups for News is an international competition rewarding the most innovative startups disrupting the media industry. GEN is hunting for startups that challenge the status quo with new editorial services for newsrooms or new ways of delivering journalistic content.
Through this programme, GEN is helping facilitate interaction between startup innovators and senior media executives with the goal of implementing new innovative practices in the newsroom.
Will some new news organisations exist only on social networks? Imagine no website, no app, just a strong presence on Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and similar networks. Extremes aside, going viral is essential for all news media. What does this mean for the information process? Can journalists become social media experts? Must they produce and distribute content? What is the impact on headlines and storytelling forms?
In this Masterclass hosted by wochit, you’ll discover important data about the new approaches to video along with insights from publishers around the world. Which formats do you think work best for digital video? Want to know how they compare across the industry and the globe?
Attendees will take away:
- Essential components of any modern video strategy
- Actionable tips on how to produce high quality video quickly and cost-effectively — with the same platform used by leading publishers such as USA Today, Spiegel Online, Die Welt and La Repubblica.
- How Special Guest Sven Christian from Spiegel Online runs the video operation for one of the most respected news brands in the world, and what he's learned
Presented by:
Wochit & Spiegel Online
There is hardly any newsroom left in the world that’s not familiar with the merits of data reporting. But in order to drive impactful, data-driven stories, there should be a dedicated data journalism team that collaborates on all stories and that is a force multiplier for your newsroom.
The third annual Data Journalism Awards will culminate in a DJA Ceremony gala dinner at Cosmocaixa on Thursday night to showcase the best of datajournalism all over the world with Minter Dial as Master of Ceremony.
This competition is the first international contest recognising outstanding work in the field of data journalism worldwide. GEN received more than 480 submissions in 2015! After the announcement of the 78 nominees of the competition in May 2015, the Global Editors Network will present the ten winners of the awards during this exclusive ceremony.
The venue features a stunning "Flooded Forest (Bosc inundat)", which recreates 1,000 m2 of an Amazonian rainforest ecosystem and features piranhas, crocodiles and other animal and plant species typical to the zone. The museum building is just as fascinating as its contents. Cosmocaixa is a beautiful example of modernista architecture, designed and built between 1904 and 1909 by Josep Domènech i Estapà. The modern extension carried out in 2004 highlighted the value of the century-old building while placing it in a new context.
Supported by CaixaBank
Address: Carrer d'Isaac Newton, 26
Startups for News is an international competition rewarding the most innovative startups disrupting the media industry. GEN is hunting for startups that challenge the status quo with new editorial services for newsrooms or new ways of delivering journalistic content.
Through this programme, GEN is helping facilitate interaction between startup innovators and senior media executives with the goal of implementing new innovative practices in the newsroom.
Until 2015, innovation came from outside newsrooms. Today, journalists, developers and graphic designers are able to set up prototypes and test new editorial services internally: innovation is back in the newsroom! How do these media innovators understand user engagement and practise a new collaborative process to craft higher quality journalism?
15 - 17 June 2016: Aula der Wissenschaften, an early baroque building where was set up the editorial department of the Wiener Zeitung, the oldest daily newspaper in the world.
At Storyful’s Lunch Masterclass (Friday, June 19th) during the GEN Summit, Storyful Founder and Director of Innovation, Mark Little, will outline how his vision has arrived at a new and exciting chapter for Storyful. Storyful’s approaches and standards are being adopted by newsrooms all over the world, all of whom are finding more success in cracking the code of the social web. Join Mark to find out how to increase engagement, build new revenue streams and reduce workflow using social content and smart thinking. And, if you’re searching for insights into cultivating innovation, adapting to new technologies and creating apps with real value, Chief Product Officer, Adam Thomas, will share some Storyful technology secrets that have allowed a small team to redefine newsgathering for the social age.
This session was very successful at the GEN Summit 2014 and we’re back for round two! Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Many of us would turn the clock back if we could. What are the biggest mistakes these leading executives made, and how can we learn from them?
At the moment, business, finance and sports are at the core of automated journalism because they are based on data, algorithms and corporate texts that can be translated into (good) written articles or data visualisations. Yet there is a variety of unexpected domains where robots can help journalists — but not replace them!
Podcasting is a platform that is radically changing at the moment, moving out of niche and into mainstream markets. With 'Serial' attracting millions of listeners this past fall, publishers are beginning to see the editorial and monetary value of audio content. There is a handful of innovative podcasters that are revolutionising the genre with in-depth investigative storytelling and high-quality audio production. Find out why your newsroom should be implementing audio into your multi-media strategy and how to do it from those who already have.
Non-profit news organisations are doing some of the most innovative work in the industry, filling gaps left by a shrinking mainstream media. How do the organisations that fund them — growing often U.S.-led philanthropy groups — assess their effectiveness and choose which projects to support? Leaders of both the non-profit and philanthropic sectors will collaborate on this masterclass.
Some digital publishers spent tens of millions of dollars on local news and at the same time, many individual or community initiatives sunk: hyperlocal news was ill-fated. It was a good idea on the paper, but implementation failed. 2015 marks a new era for local news with new initiatives and new business models. Hear from new players who have learned from the failures of their predecessors.
The Editors Lab Final is innovation in real time. The Editors Lab programme is a series of hackdays for newsroom innovation. The 2014-2015 season is hosted by major newsrooms in Berlin, Buenos Aires, Cairo, Lagos, London, Madrid, New York, Paris and more.
In Barcelona, the teams will have 48 hours to develop an innovative journalism service or application. In the same format as regional hackdays, each newsroom team will have one journalist, one designer, and one developer.
Do you want to discover the freshest innovation? On the last day of the event, all Summit participants will have the opportunity to discover the best prototypes developed over the course of the GEN Summit. You can't get newer than that!
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Startups for News is an international competition rewarding the most innovative startups disrupting the media industry. GEN is hunting for the startups that challenge the status quo with new editorial services for newsrooms or new ways of delivering journalistic content.
With this programme, GEN is helping create interaction between startup innovators and media senior executives and thus encouraging the implementation of innovative practices in the newsroom.
The Fàbrica Moritz Barcelona is a theme park for adults, even better if they are beer lovers! Here you will find a microbrewery that can be considered the Rolls Royce of the European microbreweries, where they produce the unpasteurized fresh Moritz beer. The new factory, inaugurated in 1864, was one of the first constructions in the new Eixample neighborhood. In fact, some traces still remain from this factory, which was in operation for more than a century, and it has now become a landmark that is still preserved in the collective history of the residents in the area. Important vestiges from the former factory still remain, such as the reinforced concrete tanks manufactured in the 1920s, and are the company’s authentic crown jewels. Moritz wanted to restore this great center for the city. For this final event, we will have music and dancing, an ideal combination to finish off the GEN Summit and start the weekend.
Supported by Moritz
Address: Ronda de Sant Antoni, 41