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#newsrw Rather than adding too much to the slew of news:rewired reviews and analysis, here’s a handy guide to some of the coverage session by session. For all your Twittering and Flickring needs, check out the news:rewired site’s Buzz page.
(Journalism.co.uk has prepared its own catch-up guide, which is doubtless better. They organised it, after all. Send your blog links to Judith Townend in case they want to keep it updated.)
What the bloggers said:

• Iain Hepburn thinks the event spread itself too thinly and some of the panels missed the mark – he also takes the event to task a bit for overrunning, which forced the pace at times [UPDATE 15 June 2011: he seems to have deleted this blog content].
  Strongest content: Kevin Marsh‘s keynote speech (transcript/notes here), the Local Digital Media panel and David Dunkley Gyimah‘s videojournalism presentation.
• Sarah Booker adds a general round-up and promises session-specific posts.
• Adam Tinworth is excellent on the five stages of grief journalists are experiencing as the industry implodes.
• Jon Jacob from the BBC College of Journalism is a bit self-indulgent but is right when he argues we should forget about labels and trying to predict the future.
• Jon Slattery brings a newsman’s coverage to the event. His general roundup of the event is here.
• Julio Romo‘s Two Four Seven blog has a substantial round-up looking at the implications from a PR professional’s view and featuring some useful extra links.

Keynote: 10:30 – 10:45

[vimeo width=”200″ height=”150″]http://www.vimeo.com/8748852[/vimeo]George Brock, head of journalism department, City University.
George Brock believes he should be a professor of chaos history, and likens the search for solutions to the challenges of digital media as “throwing spaghetti at a wall”.
What the bloggers said:

• Adam Tinworth summarises George Brock’s keynote here.
• Nigel Barlow has a nice summary of the session here.
• Patrick Smith takes on the idea that journalism students can boost local reporting.
• Alex Gamela has an overview of George Brock’s keynote here.
• David Higgerson wonders whether the media’s obsession with Twitter is overplayed – a nice analysis.

I liked Brock’s point that technology is not always the disruptive social force we sometimes credit it as being. Although western media picked up on the Twitter campaign by Iranian dissidents last year, actually the regime is more threatened by opponents stamping slogans on banknotes.
So many banknotes now carry opposition messages that the government wants to recall them all. But that would destroy the economy. Very clever – very low tech.

Presentation: 10:45 – 11.10

[vimeo width=”200″ height=”150″]http://vimeo.com/8747635[/vimeo]Kevin Marsh, BBC College of Journalism, on the challenges of learning new multimedia and social media skills. Key message: Big media will not die.
What the bloggers said:

• Jon Slattery’s story on Kevin Marsh’s talk is here.
• News:rewired has an audio interview with Kevin Marsh here covering many of the same issues.
• Reuters’ Mark Jones interviewed Kevin Marsh after his presentation on whether using social media makes you a better journalist.
• Oliver Luft at Press Gazette explores Marsh’s views on the transformative nature of blogging.
• Mediating Conflict also briefly picks up on the importance of blogging as a transformative force.
• David Higgerson uses Marsh’s comments on blogging as the springboard for a discussion of the blogging medium.

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