Partnering with EJC for the News Impact Summit in Prague
The News Impact Summits are a unique type of media innovation event. They are organised by the European Journalism Centre and are powered by Google News Lab. These summits focus on how recent developments in technology, tools and methods can change the way of working in the newsroom, the methods of storytelling and the way of engaging audiences and society as a whole.
For the Prague edition, coming up on October 14, Sourcefabric will cooperate with the EJC to put together a high-quality event for journalists, editors and newsroom managers across the Czech Republic and Europe.
"We cooperate because we see Sourcefabric to be one of the main innovation drivers in the Czech Republic, with a truly European and international reach,” says EJC director, Wilfried Rütten. "Sourcefabric is at the forefront of contemporary developments in open source approaches to workflow and digital tools and is a perfect fit with our News Impact Summit series."
Mixing keynote speeches, ignite talks, panel discussions, fireside chats and above all, training sessions, the events focus on major media innovation trends, and try to assess the impact of the tools used by innovative newsrooms and journalists. All News Impact Summit events are free-of-charge.
Following the pilot event in Vienna in 2014 and a series of eight summits in 2015, the European Journalism Centre and the Google News Lab launched a new 2016 series of nine News Impact Summits. The summit series in 2016 will revisit some of the European capitals from the previous year, whilst covering new locations in Europe and for the first time the Middle East. This year’s series also covers new topics in the domain of digital journalism including but not limited to digital storytelling, interactives, newsgathering, verification, VR and AR.
We plan to cover the News Impact Summit in Prague with our live news coverage tool, Live Blog, and hold a hands-on session on live coverage in the newsroom.
Stay tuned for more news about the programme and lineup of speakers of the News Impact Summit in Prague!