Storyology 2016: Full Schedule

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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

16:45 AEST

Lightning talks: Walkley Innovation Grant 2016 Longlisters share their pitches

Limited Capacity seats available

Wednesday August 10, 2016 16:45 - 17:15 AEST
Chauvel Cinema 1 249 Oxford Street, Paddington NSW

Lightning Talks

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

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 →

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

15:00 AEST

Lightning Talks: Sensors, science, serial killing, war photography, and VR

Limited Capacity seats available

Five minutes, one great idea:

Sensors & Satellites: A new way of storytelling
Suzan Delibasic

Sleeping with the enemy: Scientists in newsrooms and journos in the lab
Lyndal Byford

Bowraville: An Australian podcast about serial killing
Dan Box, The Australian

Shooting the picture: Press photography in Australia
Fay Anderson

Virtual Rodeo: Wrangling the bucking bronco of VR
Scott Gamble

Speakers

Fay Anderson

Associate professor, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University

Fay Anderson is a media historian in the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University. She has published widely on war journalism, genocide, photography, and violence. Fay Anderson and Richard Trembath’s book Witnesses to War: The History of Australian Conflict Reporting... Read More →

Dan Box

National crime reporter, The Australian

Dan Box is the national crime reporter for The Australian. He has previously worked for the BBC and The Sunday Times in London, and is the author of a book about Jake Kovco, the first Australian soldier to die in Iraq. Dan’s podcast and print investigation for The Australian, “Bowraville... Read More →

Lyndal Byford

Media manager, Australian Science Media Centre

Lyndal is the media manager at the Australian Science Media Centre. She spends her days turning complex science papers into tasty tabloid morsels to help mainstream news journalists cover science. Lyndal has an Honours Degree in biotechnology from Flinders University and a Graduate... Read More →

Suzan Delibasic

PM digital producer, The New Daily

Suzan Delibasic is a technology journalist who is currently studying her journalism Honours thesis in Framing Hackers as Cyber Terrorists in the Australian media at Monash University. She has completed a Masters of Policing, Counter Terrorism and Intelligence specialising in Cyber... Read More →

Scott Gamble

Manager, audience content and partnerships for ABC Regional, ABC

Scott Gamble has worked extensively as a television producer and director, creating factual, entertainment and arts programming for Australian and International broadcasters. In 2015, Scott was Executive Producer of Warwick Gold Rodeo, the ABC’s first foray into VR storytelling... Read More →

Friday August 12, 2016 15:00 - 15:50 AEST
Chauvel Cinema 2 249 Oxford Street, Paddington NSW

Lightning Talks

Topic Innovation, Photography, Podcasts, Storytelling

Storyology 2016

15:45 AEST

Justin Lees

Amy Nelson

Lisa Skube

Andy Webster

16:45 AEST

Janine Cahill

Geraldine Cremin

Jo O'Dowd

Jon Westenberg

16:45 AEST

15:00 AEST

Renee Barnes

Carolyn Barry

Simon Elvery

Matt Liddy

Assaph Mehr

15:00 AEST

Fay Anderson

Dan Box

Lyndal Byford

Suzan Delibasic

Scott Gamble

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