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Audience Engagement

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...

London16

People You May Know: Your Audience

  • Renée Kaplan
  • Mary Hamilton
  • Moderated by Federica Cherubini

Join us for this exceptional kick-off to our day of audience engagement, as our experts mine their experimental approaches to discuss what we know about the communities we serve,...

London16

Reaching Unexpected Audiences With New Platforms

  • Erica Berger

New platforms represent an opportunity to connect with your audience in innovative ways. But they also offer the opportunity to find audiences you didn’t expect. Although this...