Storyology 2016: Full Schedule

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13:20 AEST

Listen up or die trying: journalism and innovation in a post-fact world

We kick off the day with some big thoughts on media around the world, and set the scene with some analysis of the challenges and opportunities we face today and in the coming years.

Speakers

Peter Fray

Professor of Journalism Practice, UTS

Peter Fray is the Professor of Journalism Practice at University of Technology Sydney and a 2016 fellow of digital entrepreneurial journalism at City University New York. Over a 30 year career in journalism, he has been the editor or editor-in-chief of the The Sydney Morning Herald... Read More →

Wednesday August 10, 2016 13:20 - 13:35 AEST
Chauvel Cinema 1 249 Oxford Street, Paddington NSW

Opening Act

Topic Audience engagement, Innovation, Making Money

14:00 AEST

The modern newsroom

Newsrooms are the creative cultural heart of journalism. How do you drive innovation and build journalism for the 21st century?

Moderators

James Kirby

Wealth editor, The Australian

James Kirby is wealth editor at The Australian. He was managing editor of and co-founder at business websites Eureka Report and Business Spectator and has held senior positions on The Australian Financial Review and The South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. He is a regular finance... Read More →

Speakers

Kate De Brito

Editor-in-chief, Mamamia

Kate de Brito is a journalist of more than 25 years experience. She has worked in print and digital across titles including the Daily Telegraph, The Australian and the New York Post, Elle, Madison, Marie Claire and news.com.au. She has written across a broad range of subjects fro... Read More →

Tim Duggan

Publisher & cofounder, Junkee Media

Tim Duggan is the Publisher and Co-Founder of Junkee Media, one of Australia's most innovative new media companies, reaching over 5.5 million people each week. Formerly known as the Sound Alliance, Junkee Media creates highly shareable content about the things that matter (and sometimes... Read More →

Judith Whelan

Editor, The Sydney Morning Herald

Judith Whelan is the editor of The Sydney Morning Herald, where she leads all editorial operations across the masthead's multiple platforms, from its newspapers to its desktop and mobile sites and social media platforms. She has been a leading driver of change within the newsroom... Read More →

Wednesday August 10, 2016 14:00 - 14:50 AEST
Chauvel Cinema 1 249 Oxford Street, Paddington NSW

Panel

Topic Audience engagement, Collaboration, Innovation, Making Money, Platforms, Social media

15:45 AEST

How are newsrooms experimenting?

Innovating for a subscriber audience
Andy Webster, Digital editor, The Australian

Artificial realities and the Internet of Experience
Amy Nelson, Experience Designer, ABC R+D

Journalism rising? Audience first
Lisa Skube, founder & director, Journalism Accelerator (US)

Bots and bayonets: Retelling the war in real time
Justin Lees, AnzacLive, News Corp

Speakers

Justin Lees

Premium content/AnzacLive editor, News Corp Australia

Justin Lees is editor of AnzacLive, Premium Content and special projects at News Corp Australia. Having covered breaking news from Fleet Street to Holt St, his current passion is experimenting with new storytelling methods and untapped "interest community" audiences.

Amy Nelson

Experience designer, ABC R+D

With a long history as a multi-disciplinary, digital media maker, Amy is an Experience Designer working in the ABC's Research and Development team, with a specialist interest in future forms of immersion, storytelling and entertainment. She is currently obsessed with envisioning... Read More →

Lisa Skube

Press Pass, JournalismAccelerator.com

Lisa Skube is a digital experience architect, community builder, public good revenue designer, press advocate and trainer. Founder and architect of the Journalism Accelerator (JA), an online system to glean publisher sustainability requirements launched out of a Reynolds Journali... Read More →

Andy Webster

Digital editor, The Australian

Andrew Webster has been a journalist for 17 years, reporting and editing for suburban, regional and metropolitan newspapers before moving to digital platforms in 2010. He was Digital Editor for the Courier-Mail and now holds that position at The Australian. Much of what he knows about... Read More →

Wednesday August 10, 2016 15:45 - 16:35 AEST
Chauvel Cinema 1 249 Oxford Street, Paddington NSW

Lightning Talks

Topic Audience engagement, Data, Innovation, Making Money, Platforms, Social media

16:45 AEST

Lightning talks: Medium, mentors, Pokémon and couch-surfing

Medium is the message
John Westenberg

Lessons from Adele
Jo O'Dowd

Gamification, storytelling & Pokémon Go
Janine Cahill, entrepreneur, Teazl

Collaborating across countries and couches
Geraldine Cremin, freelance journalist

Speakers

Janine Cahill

Entrepreneur & innovation consultant

Janine Cahill is a Sydney-based entrepreneur, professional futurist and innovation consultant. She recently founded Teazl a tech startup with an app-making platform - no coding required. And SecrtCities which uses the Teazl platform to create street games. Janine works in the innovation... Read More →

Geraldine Cremin

Freelance journalist

Geraldine grew up in Brisbane, where she also studied law and worked as a privacy lawyer. She had a hidden desire to be a journalist though (not a very titillating desire to have, but she hid it nonetheless) and in 2013 decided to give it a shot. In the midst of a 'Why not?' phase... Read More →

Jo O'Dowd

Journalist, Australian Community Media

Jo O'Dowd is a multi-platform, award-winning journalist and author with over 15 years experience in the industry. She has also worked as a tutor and guest lecturer in the field of feature writing at the University of Wollongong. She holds a bachelor's degree in psychology, writes... Read More →

Jon Westenberg

Freelance writer, Voidist

Jon Westenberg has appeared and published in Business Insider, Inc.com, TIME and dozens of other publications, talking about startup entrepreneurship, writing and innovation. Jon advises businesses worldwide on how to grow their audience and take control of their future. Jon is a... Read More →

Wednesday August 10, 2016 16:45 - 17:15 AEST
Chauvel Cinema 2 249 Oxford Street, Paddington NSW

Lightning Talks

Topic Audience engagement, Collaboration, Freelance, Innovation, Storytelling

10:00 AEST

Data gets personal

How to use personalisation and interactivity to make data-heavy stories on dry topics engaging and shareable for a bigger audience impact.

Speakers

Simon Elvery

Digital journalist, ABC Digital Interactive Storytelling Team

Simon Elvery is an award-winning digital journalist with more than a decade of experience telling stories on the web. He is an organiser of Hacks/Hackers Brisbane, a monthly community event that invites speakers to explore the intersection of new technologies and storytelling and... Read More →

Julia Smith

Design lead, Institute for Nonprofit News

Julia Smith is the Design Lead for the Institute for Nonprofit News, a nonpartisan journalism organization that provides business and technology services to more than 110 nonprofit newsrooms across the United States. At INN, Julia produces custom editorial projects for INN's member... Read More →

Kavya Sukumar

Editorial Engineer, Vox.com

Kavya Sukumar is an editorial engineer on Vox's visualization team. She works with data and graphics to find and present stories on the internet. After more than six years in the tech industry, she switched careers to journalism. She has reported and written stories, worked... Read More →

Edmund Tadros

Data editor, Australian Financial Review

Edmund runs the data visualisation section of the Financial Review, writes data-driven stories and creates visualisations and interactive tools. He is an award-winning journalist based in the AFR's Sydney newsroom.

Inga Ting

Data journalist, Sydney Morning Herald

Inga Ting is The Sydney Morning Herald's data journalist, specialising in number analysis and visual storytelling using interactive graphics. Her recent stories cover a range of topics, from how pattern recognition influences wedding dates to falling entry standards at NSW's top universities... Read More →

Thursday August 11, 2016 10:00 - 10:50 AEST
Chauvel Cinema 2 249 Oxford Street, Paddington NSW

Panel

Topic Audience engagement, Data, Graphics, Storytelling

10:00 AEST

Standing on the platform, waiting to get mobile

Distribution is increasingly through the big tech platforms, delivered over mobile. How does journalism fit in?

Moderators

Jacqui Park

CEO, The Walkley Foundation

Jacqui Park is the founder and CEO of the Walkley Foundation. She launched and continues to edit the Walkley magazine and the Storyology festival of journalism. She designed and launched the Walkley Innovation program and has just completed a John S Knight Fellowship, an elite year-long... Read More →

Speakers

Lucinda Burtt

Head of product design, Fairfax Media

Lucinda Burtt has been shaping design at Fairfax Media for more than 7 years. Lucinda currently leads a cross-functional team of user experience and visual design champions solving real problems with user-centered design and data. Her current work touches flagship news sites including... Read More →

Simon Crerar

Australia editor, BuzzFeed

Simon Crerar is BuzzFeed’s Australia Editor and leads an editorial team dedicated to growing the social news and entertainment company’s Australian audience with viral content by and for Australians. Prior to BuzzFeed Simon was Editor of Visual Story in Australia at News Corp... Read More →

Kimberley Porteous

Senior manager, future audience & content, ABC

Kim has recently returned from Washington, DC, where she helped run the investigative journalism non-profit The Center for Public Integrity as its Chief Digital Officer. Under her leadership the Center won recognition from many of the industry's top digital awards, including the Online... Read More →

Andy Webster

Digital editor, The Australian

Thursday August 11, 2016 10:00 - 10:50 AEST
Chauvel Cinema 1 249 Oxford Street, Paddington NSW

Panel

Topic Audience engagement, Innovation, Making Money, Platforms

14:00 AEST

Get smart: Making the most of data

Demo plus Q&A with two former Knight-Mozilla OpenNews fellows from the U.S.

Big project, small team: An introduction to the processes, resources, and open-source tools that small newsrooms can use to help create interactive storytelling experiences with a small team and limited budget.
Julia Smith, Institute for Nonprofit News (US)

Autotune the news: The value of open-source tools for newsrooms, and how your team can make the most of developing visualisations and charts that can be reused to bring different stories and datasets to life.
Kavya Sukumar, Vox (US)

This session is supported by Knight-Mozilla OpenNews.

Speakers

Julia Smith

Design lead, Institute for Nonprofit News

Kavya Sukumar

Editorial Engineer, Vox.com

Partners

Knight-Mozilla Open News

Thursday August 11, 2016 14:00 - 14:50 AEST
Chauvel Cinema 2 249 Oxford Street, Paddington NSW

Demo

Topic Audience engagement, Data, Graphics, Innovation, Storytelling

15:00 AEST

Lightning Talks: Research, distribution, fantasy, bots, data newbies

Limited Capacity seats available

The latest research from journalism scholars
Renee Barnes, University of the Sunshine Coast

From source to seekers: Bypassing the mainstream media
Carolyn Barry, Queensland Brain Institutes

Do your research before writing a novel
Assaph Mehr, Author

ABC Election Bot No 1 reporting for duty!
Simon Elvery, ABC Interactives Team

Basic Excel skills for data starters
Matt Liddy, ABC Interactives Team

Speakers

Renee Barnes

Senior lecturer, University of the Sunshine Coast

Renee Barnes is a senior lecturer in journalism at the University of the Sunshine Coast. Prior to joining academia Renee worked for numerous media organisations including the ABC, 'The Age' and Australian Associated Press. Renee's passion is online journalism and her research and... Read More →

Carolyn Barry

Digital communications, Queensland Brain Institute

Carolyn is a digital communications specialist, with a science bent. She was online and social media editor at Australian Geographic, before making the leap to the Queensland Brain Institute in 2015. Her articles have appeared online and in print, in publications including National... Read More →

Simon Elvery

Digital journalist, ABC Digital Interactive Storytelling Team

Matt Liddy

Editor, ABC

Matt Liddy is editor of the ABC News Digital Storytelling team. He has more than 15 years’ experience as a digital journalist, and leads a team with skills in journalism, coding, design and illustration who work together to uncover and tell stories that matter.

Assaph Mehr

Author, Freelance

Assaph has had his nose in a book since he was five, and had to yell at the librarian that he can read already so he could get a card. With diverse tastes - from fantasy to philosophy, from ancient times to the far future — his first novel Murder In Absentia is an “historically-themed... Read More →

Thursday August 11, 2016 15:00 - 15:50 AEST
Chauvel Cinema 2 249 Oxford Street, Paddington NSW

Lightning Talks

Topic Audience engagement, Data, Politics, Storytelling

11:30 AEST

MASTERCLASS: Photography from the road straight to the web

New technology lets you upload images and video straight from your DSLR camera. What are the basic essentials for taking a great photo that every reporter and storyteller should have in their arsenal? Come along to learn a few essentials and test the latest gear from Nikon. Or, BYO camera if you like!

Speakers

John Donegan

Head of Photography, Racing Victoria

John Donegan sold his first photograph to a suburban newspaper as a 14 year old in Melbourne. The led to a lifetime of chronicling news, revolutions, politics, cultural and sporting events in 15 countries around the world and across the length and breadth of mainland Australia. A... Read More →

Friday August 12, 2016 11:30 - 12:30 AEST
Chauvel Cinema 2 249 Oxford Street, Paddington NSW

Demo

Topic Audience engagement, Freelance, Photography

15:00 AEST

Magazine theory: Reinventing narrative

What’s new about magazine journalism? The truth is, the best writers are breaking new ground issue after issue. They were building immersive virtual worlds long before Oculus Rift, and they invented #longreads. Two great magazine writers share examples of experiments with form, structure and narrative tools. Do they do things differently for an audience reading on mobile?

Daniela Pinheiro appears with the support of the Council on Australia Latin America Relations (COALAR) of the Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade.

Moderators

Professor Julianne Schultz AM

Founding editor, Griffith Review

Professor Julianne Schultz AM FAHA is the founding editor of Griffith Review, the award-winning literary and public affairs quarterly established by Griffith University in 2003 to provide a public intellectual leadership and a platform for long-form essays and other writing addressing... Read More →

Speakers

DANIELA PINHEIRO

JOURNALIST, IPI MEMBER

Daniela Pinheiro is the first woman appointed editor-in-chief of a weekly magazine in Brazil. A JSK Knight (JSK) Fellow in Journalism at Stanford University alumni and also a former fellow at Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University, she was the editor-in-chief... Read More →

Friday August 12, 2016 15:00 - 15:50 AEST
Chauvel Cinema 1 249 Oxford Street, Paddington NSW

In Conversation

Topic Audience engagement, International, Platforms, Storytelling