GEN Summit 2015 Programme - Complete Version (Low Res)

Centre de Cultura Contempornia de Barcelona
Montalegre, 5 - 08001 Barcelona 17 - 19 June 2015
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Google has been a proud and engaged strategic

partner of the Global Editors Network since GENs
inception in 2011. Googles mission to organise the
worlds information and make it universally accessible
and useful compliments GENs focus on converging,
sharing and innovating.
Knight Foundation supports transformational ideas that

promote quality journalism, advance media innovation
and foster the arts. We believe that democracy thrives
when people and communities are informed and
engaged, and we fund media innovation projects that
seek to improve to create, share and use information.
Telefnica is one of the largest telecommunications

companies in the world. With its best in class mobile,
fixed and broadband networks, and innovative portfolio
of digital solutions, Telefnica is transforming itself into
a Digital Telco that will be even better placed to meet
the needs of its customers.
Uncovering the stories that need to be told. At Al

Jazeera English, we strive to reach people and
their stories no matter who or where they are. Our
journalists resolve and determination drives us to
uncover stories, challenge centres of power, and
examine issues often neglected by other media.
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T
he widening reach of social media is

creating a ground shift in the news
industry. And there is much to be
learned as we are still in the early days of
experimentation.
This is especially true in the realm of
mobile web. Last year, a report found that
social media drove 34 percent of mobile
web traffic as opposed to 17 percent of
desktop traffic.
The continuous change in our consumption
habits and the increased interactivity of
social media will ultimately make mobile a
critical gateway for content.
But to use the parlance of journalism, we
must not bury or lose sight of the lede:
Social media is not the boon of the
traditional journalism industry, nor is it a
panacea. It is merely a natural extension of
our technical evolution and it is up to us to
steer it in the right direction.
We convene today to define a new narrative
in which social media, and digitisation in
general, is at the heart of all journalistic
progress. It is the mission of the Global
Editors Network to bridge the gap between
the different generations of editors, between
content creators and technology providers,
and between established media and new
storytellers.
Ricardo Kirschbaum
GEN President (2012 - 2015)

president@globaleditorsnetwork.org
And for the next three days of the GEN

Summit 2015, we invite you all to take part
in defining that narrative.
We would like to shed light on some
of our exciting programmes and their
culmination points at this years Summit.
The Editors Lab Final, the world cup
of news hackathons, brings together more
than 40 contestants from all over the
world to compete in creating an innovative
newsroom prototypes. Similarly, the
Startups for News Final will crown a
startup with a unique offering to journalists
and journalism.
Our main evening event, the Data

Journalism Awards Ceremony, will
honour the best in data reporting and
newsgathering. Supported by Google,
CaixaBank and the Knight Foundation, the
Awards are an international competition
that rewards the most innovative datadriven journalism projects. This year, we
selected 14 winners from more than 480
entries from all over the world.
We also invite you to visit our bootcamps
on wearables and virtual reality journalism.
Participants can visit the Project Syria
demo space: an immersive storytelling
experience that aims to give voice to the
plight of the Syrian children affected by the
ongoing war.
Finally, this summit allows us to introduce
the Climate Publishers Network, a
collaboration initiative by 25 founding
partners (see page 12) that aims to
syndicate articles related to climate change
free of charge in the run-up to COP21 in
Paris.
Just like last year, we are honoured
today to hold the GEN Summit at the
beautiful grounds of the Centre de Cultura
Contempornia de Barcelona. We are
also grateful to our host, the Generalitat
de Catalunya, for their hospitality and
unwavering support.
Lastly, we thank all of our strategic
partners, sponsors, exhibitors, and media
partners for their generous support and
enthusiasm, and for sharing our belief in
making a difference in the news industry.
Ricardo Kirschbaum
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the programme - day 2
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expo
18 & 19 june 2015
9:00 - 19:00
16 leading companies, suppliers and organisations are

inviting you to visit their booth at the GEN Expo.
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PROGRAMME
See all the conference
programme day by day:
- Wednesday, page 11
- Thursday, page 21
- Friday, page 37
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BOOTCAMPS
17 june 2015
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Three bootcamps and one exclusive demo* are

taking place on Wednesday afternoon.
*The VR demo will remain for the duration of
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DATA
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AWARDS ceremony
18 june 2015
20:00 - 23:00
Do not miss the Data Journalism Awards ceremony at CosmoCaixa on

Thursday evening. The best worldwide data journalism projects of the
year will be celebrated in an exceptional venue.
masterclasses
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EDITORS LAB
FINAL
thursday, 18 june 2015
19 june 2015
18:00 - 18:45
18 & 19 june 2015
The World Cup of newsroom innovation, the final

of the Editors Lab programme will take place at
Sala Teatre (main stage) on Friday at 18:00.
8:30 - 19:00
Starting on Thursday at 11:30am, seven workshops from

our partners will be offered over the two days of the
conference. Please refer to the information on pages 23,
25, 27, 29, 39, 43 & 45.
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FINAL
19 june 2015
18:45 - 19:00
Following the Editors Lab final on Friday, stay in Sala

Teatre (main stage) to vote for the best startup of the year
offering new services or products to the media industry.
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17,18 & 19 june 2015
19:30 - 23:00
Three special evenings not to miss: please refer to pages

30-31 for all information on our three social events at
Hospital de Sant Pau, CosmoCaixa and Fbrica Moritz.
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1World Online provides

publishers with a rich-media
experience articulated
around proven increased
user engagement, native
advertising, content discovery and a
comprehensive suite of revenue acceleration
options. 1World aims at improving readers
content personalisation and increasing
relevant media consumption while maximizing
publishers revenue opportunities. We also
provides publishers with real-time analytics
necessary to operate and maximize the
benefits of the 1World solutions.
Uncovering the stories that

need to be told. At Al Jazeera
English, we strive to reach
people and their stories no
matter who or where they are.
Our journalists resolve and determination
drives us to uncover stories, challenge centres
of power and examine issues often neglected
by other media.
AP Video Hub is the essential
platform for any organisation
that wants up-to-the-minute
video content for broadcast
and digital use: live events,
breaking news, entertainment, sport, usergenerated content (UGC), and lifestyle.
A pioneer in
digital publishing
technology,
Aquafadas enables the creation and mass
distribution of graphics rich, interactive
digital content such as corporate and
educational documents, magazines, books,
and comics, across all major platforms. Some
of Aquafadas customers include Shueisha,
Sanoma, Mondadori, Sesame Street,
Lagardre, Gakken, Lufthansa, Bayard, 3
Suisses & Egmont International.
Google Trends is a
powerful tool that
allows journalists to
see whats trending on Google right now and
track historical search interest in a particular
topic or set of topics over time. Google is
announcing the new Google Trends product
features and updates at the GEN Summit in
Barcelona. Come and meet the team that
designed and built Google Trends at our
booth in the GEN Expo, where there will be
live demos and showcasing examples of how
you can use Google data in your reporting.
A web-based data
visualisation platform
with over 1.5 million
users worldwide, Infogr.am is an awardwinning tool popular with journalists and
newsrooms around the world. Some of the
companys power users include mainstream
news organisations, daily papers, and high
profile tech blogs.
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NewsWhips
technology tracks the
spread of millions of
stories, videos, and
other content attracting engagement and
driving activity on social networks, showing
editors, reporters and audience development
teams exactly what matters now. Our Spike
and Insights platforms are used by some
of the worlds leading digital newsrooms,
including the Guardian, BBC, Bild, and the
Huffington Post.
Radix is a leading domain
registry with exclusive
rights to manage seven
of the new domain name
extensions .PRESS, .WEBSITE, .SPACE,
.HOST, .SITE, .ONLINE and .TECH. .PRESS
domains were launched by Radix to create
a differentiated Internet namespace for
journalists and news corporations. .PRESS
domains enable you to have strong web
identities that help you build relevant and
engaged audiences for your content.
PressReader is the
largest all-you-canread newspaper and
magazine platform, with over 4,000 titles.
Unlike any other digital distribution company,
PressReader puts your content in front of
250+ million readers in hotels, libraries,
airports and cruise ships around the world.
RUPTLY is an
international news
agency that provides
real-time and archived visual news content
to all media, from traditional broadcasters
to online platforms, including digital and
mobile multimedia devices. The RUPTLY
team is composed of talented industry
professionals who have worked at the worlds
largest news agencies and established news
organizations. RUPTLY builds on and extends
the core strength and values of its parent
company RT - a global news network.
When your audience has

unlimited choices, which
content will they choose to
engage with? Storyful, the
worlds first social media news
agency, believes in giving you the power
to find the most engaging, authentic and
inspiring stories on the social web.
By combining proprietary technology and
expert journalism into a human algorithm,
Storyful allows news organisations to discover
and use fully-verified, rights-cleared social
content from any platform on the social web.
Trusted by the worlds biggest media brands,
and recently named in Fast Companys top
10 most innovative social media companies
of 2015, Storyful is the key to finding the
perfect piece of social content for your
storytelling.
ScribbleLive is the
provider of the worlds
leading complete content
marketing and live
publishing software platform powered by big
data. The all-in-one SaaS solution combines
predictive analytics with content planning,
creation, and distribution technologies to
deliver optimised business results. ScribbleLive
is used by over 500 enterprises including
large global brands such as Red Bull, Bayer,
Ferrari, Sky News, and Yahoo!.
From January to May,

GEN featured 16
cutting-edge startups
offering a new tool or service to the media.
These 16 young companies faced off through
online video pitch battles on the GEN
website; The GEN audience voted and the
eight winning teams will showcase their work
at the GEN Startups for News stand within
the GEN Summit Expo. Among them, the
public will vote for this year winner during the
final on Friday evening.
Wayra is Telefnicas startup

accelerator network with 13
academies in 11 countries.
It helps the best entrepreneurs
to build and grow successful
businesses. Wayra provides entrepreneurs
with up to US$ 50,000 funding, working
spaces, mentors, business partners, access to
a global network of talent and the opportunity
to reach Telefnicas commercial base that
adds up to more than 320 million clients.
Wibbitz envisions a world

with a video for every story.
Now this vision is possible for
publishers with our text-to-video
creation platform. With crossscreen optimisation, editorial oversight, and
top-quality licensed content, editors use the
Wibbitz Control-Room to scalably increase
video production. Visit us at the GEN Expo
to try the platform and create your own video
with Wibbitz. It just takes seconds to create a
premium video, but youre welcome to linger
as long as youd like. See you there!
Wochit is a disruptive
video creation platform
for news media. Die
Welt, Spiegel Online, La Repubblica and
many more use Wochits cloud-based video
creation platform to react rapidly to any story
and create branded video content in minutes.
Wochit provides licensed assets for Reuters,
AP, Getty Images, Bloomberg, AFP, Storyful
and many more media. Check out the hottest
video topics at GEN by visiting wochit.com/
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15:00 18:30
Welcome to the cccb
Entrance: Montalegre, 5
Sala Teatre & auditorium
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A call to action
CLIMATE
PUBLISHERS
NETWORK
Ahead of the UN Climate Change Summit
#COP21 in Paris, 25 media organisations from
around the world have created a new publishers
network to collaborate in their coverage of
climate change. The Climate Publishers Network
will provide a mutual syndication of articles
related to climate change free of charge during
the run-up to COP 21. Each media organisation
will be able to re-publish material for other
members of the network without having to worry
about license fees. The aim of the collaboration is
to widen each publishers spectrum of coverage
between now and the UN Climate Change
Summit in December.
Flickr: Asian Development Bank

Available under CC Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License
Founding members: Al-Ahram, China Daily, Clarn,

De Standaard, Der Standard, El Comercio, El Deber,
El Pas, El Watan, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,
Gazeta Wyborcza, India Today, La Presse, La Repubblica,
Le Monde, Le Quotidien de Nouakchott, Politiken,
Stuff.co.nz, The Age, The Guardian, The Irish Times,
The Seattle Times, The Straits Times,
The Sydney Morning Herald, To Vima.
The Climate Publishers Network is coordinated by

the Global Editors Network. Join this initiative by visiting
globaleditorsnetwork.org/CPN
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Wednesday Bootcamps
15:00 - 16:30 - Sala Teatre
1 - Wearable News Beyond

the Gadgets
Joint session with ONA
We are in the prehistory of wearable news: the devices

exist, but not yet the usages in both content creation
and content consumption. Connected watches and
other wearable devices might not disrupt journalism,
but they will be a new way to listen to news through
text to speech technologies or fast streaming reading.
Sensor journalism will also appear, a sophisticated
blend of crowdsourcing, big data and wearables.
This bootcamp will allow editors to make
the difference between gadgets and really
interesting new devices empowering people or
improving news distribution.
With:
Robert Hernandez, Assistant Professor, USC
Annenberg (and ONA Board Member)

with David Sancha, Managing Director,
Xalok
Louis Jebb, Founder and Chief Executive,
Immersivly
Moderator: Roman Gallo, CEO,
GalloMultiMedia
#GENSUMMIT
15:00 - 16:30 - Auditorium
2 - From Bitcoins to
Bitnews: Towards the OneCent Article
Can the iTunes model fit to the news industry? Is it
better to sell 100,000 articles at one cent rather
than 1,000 articles at one euro? This bootcamp will
check what the benefits are for digital media
to unbundle content and use specific platforms
for selling their content. The promise is rich,
from digital kiosks selling individual articles to
paid-for services using bitcoins. Some predict
a brilliant future for those platforms focused
on new users and some believe the dream of
larger distribution will become a nightmare.
With
Kelly Leach, CEO, Piano Media

Duco van Lanschot, Head of International,
Blendle
Claire Wachter, VP Business Development, Inkl

Nikolay Malyarov, CCO & General Counsel,
Pressreader
Moderator: Toni Piqu, Consultant on
newsroom organisation, Cases i Associats
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INTERESTED
IN MEDIA INNOVATION?
Do you want to stay up-to-date with journalism innovation?
See the best projects in data journalism?
Discover the best tools for your newsroom?
Contact people from your industry?
THERE IS ONE PLACE FOR THAT:
THE GEN COMMUNITY

2000+ journalists, developers, designers
and 900+ projects are already registered
Set up your account now !

Its free!
community.globaleditorsnetwork.org
16:30 - 17:00
Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:00
Coffee Break
17:00 - 18:30 - Sala Teatre
17:00 - 18:30 - Auditorium
3 - VR Journalism and
Immersive Storytelling
4 - Media Innovation in
China: the latest trends
Immersive storytelling is becoming a reality through

new devices allowing people to tell stories through
stereoscopic 3-D, 360-degree visuals, and full
immersive virtual reality goggles. Mel will set up the
workshop by explaining the science behind virtual
reality and how immersion can be so profound as
to create new experiences and feelings. Nonny will
follow with a showcase of journalistic possibilities for
editors and will analyse the latest experiments. Young
audiences are the first targets of this new way to tell
stories, but not exclusively: tomorrow virtual reality
could become a mass media.
With
Nonny de la Pea, Emblematic Group CEO
& USC School of Cinematic Arts Annenberg

Fellow
Mel Slater, Director of the Event Lab,
University of Barcelona
Moderator: Roman Gallo, CEO,
GalloMultiMedia
With a staggering 1.3 billion mobile registrations

- the equivalent of one for nearly every person in
the country - and 640 million internet users, China
is a powerful force in todays media. Giant Internet
leaders Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent/WeChat
(together called BAT) are Chinas answer to Google,
Apple, Facebook and Amazon. Together with
the state and some independent media, they are
driving a mobile first revolution and adding to the
technological clout of the worlds biggest Internet
market.
With:
Ji Tao, Assistant Editor-in-Chief of China
Daily Group & Editor-in-Chief of China

Daily Europe
Ying Chan, Founding Director of the
Journalism and Media Studies Centre,
The University of Hong Kong
David Schlesinger, Managing Director,
Tripod Advisors
Moderator: Joyce Barnathan, President,
ICFJ
Transfer by bus
19:30 - 22:00
Finger Buffet
First
GEN Summit Social Event
Hospital de Sant Pau i de la Santa Creu
Carrer de Sant Quint, 89
(near sagrada famlia)
See page 30
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JUNE 18TH AND 19TH - THE MAIN FOYER

THE GLOBAL EDITORS NETWORK & EMBLEMATIC GROUP
VIRTUAL REALITY & IMMERSIVE JOURNALISM
Come and experience immersive journalism and virtual reality. Demos on

Thursday and Friday in the main foyer from 9:30am to 5:30pm.
Nearly a third of the Syrian population has been displaced in the ongoing war in
the country and no group has been as severely affected as children. Project Syria,
one of the projects on display by Emblematic Group, is an immersive journalism
project that aims to tell the plight of these children; it uses new virtual reality
technologies to put the audience on scene and evoke the feeling of being
there.
Other projects on display are Use of Force, which recreates the story of
Anastasio Hernandez Rojas, a Mexican immigrant who was beaten and tasered to
death by 12 US border patrol agents; Hunger in L.A., which explores the growing
issue of hunger in the Los Angeles area; and Trayvon Martin, which takes a look
at the events of the Trayvon Martin case, which swept America in 2012.
Meet the team of Emblematic group:
Access to the Main Foyer is
through the conference lobby
or the GEN Expo. Please follow
the roll-ups VR Demos.
Nonny De La Pea
Eren Aksu
Julie Young
Images courtsey of www.immersivejournalism.com
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Finger buffet
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Hospital de Sant Pau
(near Sagrada Famiglia)
Transfer and return by bus
THE DATA-DRIVEN
SHALL INHERIT THE NEWSROOM.
The newsroom has been transformed by data. But what comes next? What will be done with this new level
of insight, and how? Join us for a Masterclass presentation on the technologies and tools being deployed
for editorial action, workflow and optimization among many of the worlds leading digital media brands.
A Revolution in the Newsroom:

Best Practices of the Data-Driven.
SPEAKER
John LoGioco, Executive Vice President, Outbrain
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Room: Aula 1
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9:30 18:30
Welcome to the cccb
Sala Teatre
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9:30 - 9:40
10:35 - 10:45
Introduction to the fifth

GEN Summit
Why a Climate Publishers

Network?
Matt Kelly, GEN Summit Chairman
9:40 - 10:20
Making mobile and social

work together
In the newsroom, social media can be your best
friend or your worst enemy. One thing is certain, you
cannot ignore it. Taking advantage of shifting mobile
consumption habits can turn social media into your
ally. How can you redesign your newsrooms structure
to turn valuable traffic into meaningful
conversations?
Dialog: Samantha Barry,
Head of Social Media and Senior Director

of Strategy, CNN, with Anne-Marie
Tomchak, Reporter and Presenter,
BBC Trending
25 media organisations from all over the world

became the founding partners of the Climate Publishers
Network in May 2015. CPN is a mutual syndication
of articles related to climate change free of charge
during the run-up to COP 21. Each media
organisation will be able to republish material
without having to worry about license fees.
With
Wolfgang Blau, Wolfgang Blau, Executive
Director, Digital Strategy, Guardian News &

Media
Patricia Fernandez de Lis, Science and
Technology Editor-in-Chief, El Pas
Moderator: Bertrand Pecquerie, CEO,
Global Editors Network
Cxense
Masterclass
10:20 - 10:35
Smartwear & media:
What I learned from working

with top manufacturers
Time has sped up for smartwatch innovation and the
race is on to crack the content delivery code on this
new interface. When media organisations are trying
to repackage and monetise content in the Internet of
Things era, News Republic - winner of the Best Mobile
Media and Publishing App Award at Mobile World
Congress 2015 - has successfully launched a news
apps on Samsung Gear and Apples iWatch. Its CEO
will share his experiences regarding his companys
journey on this latest frontier for news.
With
Gilles Raymond, CEO, News Republic
Moderator: Amanda Farnsworth,
Editor, Visual Journalism, BBC News
11:30 12:15
Thursday 18 June, Aula 2
Access next to GEN Expo entrance, 1st floor
More than just analytics:

Getting true, real-time
insight on newsroom
performance
In this Masterclass, we turn analytics into insight.
Learn how true real-time insight into your statistics
can significantly improve the newsroom impact on
the bottom line, how to target better, keep mobile
and social users on site and make more readers
consume more of your content. Mix and match users
with the content they prefer to read,
at their most convenient time.
Speaker:
Vigleik Takle, Senior Vice President, Global
Operations, Cxense
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June 2015
The NEW Google Trends
launches at the GEN Summit
May 2006
Launch of Google Trends
INTRODUCING THE
NEW GOOGLE TRENDS
Join the Google Trends team in a detailed walk-through of the
reimagined Google Trends product, and learn how you can
leverage Google data in your reporting.
WHERE TO FIND US:

Find us at the EXPO on Thursday 18 June
and Friday 19 June, and at our Masterclass
Session on Thursday 18 June at 1:00pm.
google.com/trends
10:45 - 11:00
12:20 - 13:00
Inside Al Jazeera: Operations

of a Global Media Network
First round of the

Startups for News competition
Founded in 1996, Al Jazeera is now one of the

largest news operations in the world, priding itself on
independence, impartiality, and professionalism. With
more than 80 bureaus across the globe, the network has
expanded to the United States, Turkey, and the Balkans
in order to widen its distribution footprint and bring its
around-the-clock programming and web presence to more
audiences. How is Al Jazeera maintaining its awardwinning news reporting and programming in a
rapidly changing global media landscape?
With SAM & spot.IM

Evangeline de Bourgoing, Director of
Programmes, Global Editors Network

11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 - 11:50
Keynote speech:
Becoming a community
platform instead of a content
provider: its worth the agony
With
Salah Negm, Director of News, Al Jazeera English
Channel
Abderrahim Foukara, Washington & New York
For newspaper publishers around the world, striking a

balance between print and digital strategies is crucial for
growing readership and establishing brands. How can a
symbiotic relationship between the two platforms deliver
quality, effective journalism and generate more profit?
Moderator: Carlos de Vega, Director, El Pas TV
With
David Montgomery, CEO, Local World
and former Chief Executive of Mirror Group
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Bureau Chief, Al Jazeera Arabic Channel

Other speaker to be confirmed
google news lab

SPECIAL LUNCH
13:10 14:20
11:50 - 12:20
Live Streaming and News:

what is the impact on your
newsroom?
Live streaming services such as Meerkat
and Periscope are reinventing live news
coverage. Consumers can now access or
broadcast an uninterrupted stream of live
events anywhere around the world with nothing
but a smartphone in hand. The prospect of
incorporating these tools in newsrooms will not
only enhance reporting, but also provide better
engagement with new audiences.
With
Lippe Oosterhof, CEO, Livestation
Brooke Minters, Senior Producer, AJ+
Richard Evans, Head of Social Media, Sky
News
Moderator: Jodie Hopperton, International

Consultant
#GENSUMMIT
Introducing the New

Google Trends
In this masterclass session, the Google Trends team will
unveil the latest version of the Google Trends product for
the first time and provide a detailed overview of the new
site, which has been designed specifically with journalists
in mind. The team that designed and built the Trends
product will walk you through how to use Google data in
your reporting, and then Simon Rogers, Googles first Data
Editor, will host a short panel discussion on the future of data
journalism with participants of the Data Journalism Awards.
Speakers:
Steve Grove - Director, News Lab at Google

Simon Rogers - Data Editor, Google
Danielle Bowers - Trends and Data Manager, Google
Roni Rabin -Software Engineer, Google Trends
Lisa Seaman - Product Manager, Google Trends
and Data Journalism Awards Finalists
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13:00 - 13:10
Second round of the Startups for

News competition
With SourceRise & Stringr
13:10 - 14:30
Lunch in the GEN EXPO area
Aquafadas
14:30 15:15
Automatic content conversion for

smartphone & tablet publications:
The Mondadori story
In this interview-style presentation, discover first-hand
how Mondadori Italy succeeded in both generating
new revenue streams and saving production time using
CreativeFlow, the new automatic content conversion tool
from Aquafadas. Looking at the Casa Facile magazine
case study, find out the ins and outs of creating
beautifully responsive digital publications for multiplatform distribution.
Speaker:
Iarno Castellani - Mondadori

Luigi Roberti - Rekordata
Achille Coenegracht - Aquafadas
14:30 - 15:10
2015 Reuters Institute Digital News Report:
Essential Data on the

future of News
This years report will show a quickening of the

pace towards social and mobile news, a decline
in the desktop internet and significant growth in
video news consumption online. It will also provide
updated data on online news subscriptions across
countries, the rise of ad blockers and explore
consumer attitudes to native advertising and
sponsored content.
With David Levy and Nic Newman, Reuters Institute
#GENSUMMIT
Moderator: Tom Kent, Standard Editor,
Associated Press
15:10 - 15:50
The Top 5 of the Data-Driven

Newsroom
Web traffic means that you almost know everything
about your users: when they arrive, how long they
stay on each page, what they read and where they go
when they leave you. Real-time metrics are great for
suggesting more personalised content for your readers
and more specific targeting for your advertisers. Not
all newsrooms are created equal under data, yet every
one has the potential. We have selected the most
advanced media on the cutting-edge of profiling and
personalisation.
With:
Frederic Filloux, Monday Note editor and
former Head of Digital, Les Echos

Haile Owusu, Chief Data Scientist, Mashable
Moderator: To be announced
15:50 - 16:00
third round of the Startups for News

competition With Datavisual & Storyform
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:00
Going viral
Some media thinkers announce that new news
organisations will only exist on social networks:
no website, no app, just a presence on Facebook,
Twitter, WhatsApp and similar organisations.
In any case, going viral is becoming essential
for all news media. What does it mean for the
information process?
With:
Armin Wolf, Anchor & Deputy Editor-in-Chief,
ORF (Austrian Public Broadcaster)
Marc-Antoine Durand, CEO, Bobler

Jaron Gilinsky, CEO, Storyhunter
Moderator: Mary Fitzgerald, Editor-in-Chief,
openDemocracy
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17:00 17:45
Video formats that work,

and how to make them
In this masterclass hosted by Wochit, youll discover
important data about the new approaches to video
along with insights from publishers around the world.
Attendees will take away: essential components of
any modern video strategy, actionable tips on how
to produce high quality video quickly and costeffectively with the same platform used by leading
publishers such as USA Today, Spiegel Online, Die
Welt and La Repubblica; learn how special guest
Sven Christian from Spiegel Online runs the video
operation for one of the most respected news brands
in the world, and what hes discovered.
Speakers:
Wochit & Spiegel Online staff members
17:00 - 17:30
What Cross-Border
Collaboration Can Bring to
Investigative Journalism
After WikiLeaks, Luxleaks, WildLeaks and Swissleaks,
it appears there is an unmistakable, mutual value in the
collaboration between journalists, media organisations
and non-profits around the world. How can editors
produce and sustain original investigative journalism
by tapping into international networks of knowledge
and expertise?
With:
Rachel Oldroyd, Director, Bureau of
Investigative Journalism
Gerard Ryle, Director, International
Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)
Moderator: Peter Bale, CEO, The Center
for Public Integrity
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17:30 - 18:15
Building the best data

journalism team for your
newsroom
There is hardly any newsroom left in the world
thats not familiar with the merits of data
reporting. But in order to drive impactful, datadriven stories, there should be a dedicated data
journalism team that collaborates on all stories
and that is a force multiplier for your newsroom.
With:
Simon Rogers, Director of the Data Journalism
Awards
Shazna Nessa, Director, Journalism, Knight
Foundation
Mohammed El-Haddad, Data Editor,
Al Jazeera
Antoine Laurent, Strategist,
Code for Africa
Moderator: Daniela Kraus, Managing

Director, Forum Journalismus und Medien,
Austria
19:00 - 19:30
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CosmoCaixa, Isaac Newton, 26

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19:30 - 20:00
welcome cocktail
20:00 - 21:30
Data Journalism Awards

Ceremony
21:30 - 23:00
FINGER BUFFET IN THE AMAZON

RAINFOREST HALL
23:00
return by bus to the city
The Data Journalism Awards competition is the first
international contest recognising outstanding work in
the field of data journalism worldwide. GEN received
more than 480 submissions in 2015! After the
announcement of the 78 nominees of the competition
in May 2015, the Global Editors Network will present
the winners during this exclusive ceremony.
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Live streamed from 20:00 to
he Data Journalism Awards (DJA) is

an international competition recognising the
excellence in the field. The fourth edition of the
DJA received more than 480 submissions with judges
deliberating over the most diverse selection of entries to
date. We selected 78 finalists for the shortlist.
Simon Rogers, the Director of this years DJA, said

that the standard of entries was incredibly high. The
entries represent every kind of data journalism; from
long-read investigations to quick-hit visualisations, the
whole spectrum of this growing field is represented in
the shortlist, he explained.
Paul Steiger, Executive Chairman of ProPublica and

DJA Jury President, added: This years entries were
the strongest yet. The winners came from a broad mix
of countries, including the United States, the United
Kingdom, three countries in Continental Europe, three
in Latin America, and one in the Middle East plus a
consortium of 45 news organisations spread across
six continents. The breadth underlines how the skills
and impact of data journalism are spreading rapidly
around the world and becoming increasingly crucial to
the work of new and traditional media alike.
Simon Rogers
Paul Steiger
In partnership with:
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21:30 on Thursday 18 june
The Ceremony
he fourth annual Data Journalism Awards will culminate with the DJA Ceremony showcasing the best work in
the field. A top executive of La Caixa Banking Foundation will preside over the event which will take place at
CosmoCaixa Barcelona on 18 June between 20:00 and 23:00. He will be accompanied by Simon Rogers, DJA
2015 Director, and Paul Steiger, the President of the DJA Jury 2015. Two awards will be given by Infogr.am and
Piktochart, two creative companies providing tools for producing infographics.
Winners will receive an award of 1,500 per category:

1. Data visualisation of the year (small newsroom,
large newsroom).
6. Best use of data in a breaking news story,

within first 36 hours.
2. Investigation of the year (small newsroom, large

newsroom).
7. Open data award.
3. News data app of the year (small newsroom,

large newsroom). Sponsored by Piktochart.
4. Data journalism website of the year.
5. Best individual portfolio.
8. Best entry from a small newsroom, with fewer

than 25 journalists.
9. General excellence (Jurors Choice).
10. Public choice. An entry of high excellence
selected by the public. Sponsored by Infogram.
Our Jury is composed of 16 data journalism experts:

Justin Arenstein, Publisher and CEO of African Eye News
Service (AENS)
Joshua Hatch, Senior Editor for Data and Interactives at The

Chronicle of Higher Education
Peter Barron, Vice President, Communications, Europe,

Middle East and Africa, Google
Mohamed Nanabhay, Internet Entrepreneur and Founder

of the New Media division at Al Jazeera
Liliana Bounegru, Researcher and Managing Director of

the Digital Methods Initiative at the University of Amsterdam
Shazna Nessa, Director of Journalism at the Knight

Foundation
Alberto Cairo, Teacher of Visualisation and Infographics at

the School of Communication at the University of Miami
Angelica Peralta Ramos (Momi), Multimedia Development

Manager at LA NACION newspaper, Argentina
Reginald Chua, Executive Editor, Editorial Operations, Data

and Innovation at Thomson Reuters
Aron Pilhofer, Executive Editor of Digital for the Guardian
Amanda Cox, Graphics Editor at The New York Times
Paul Radu, Executive Director of the Organised Crime and

Corruption Reporting Project
Steve Doig, specialising in data journalism at the Walter

Cronkite School of Journalism of Arizona State University
Mariana Santos, JSK Knight Fellow at Stanford University

and Director of Interactive and Ani-mation at Fusion
Frdric Filloux, Founder and Editor of The Monday Note
Giannina Segnini, Data Journalist and Consultant
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8:30 AM
Join us for breakfast to discover

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Wibbitz
8:30 10:00
breakfast
Friday 19 June, Aula 1
Theres a robot In my newsroom!

Teaming up with text-to-videotechnology
Video is our forte, news is our passion, robots are
our friends. We want to hear your thoughts on
how these three coincide. Join us for a breakfast
roundtable to look at how robots and algorithms, like
the Wibbitz text-to-video technology, can be editors
new best friends in the newsroom. Wibbitz helps
publishers save time and money by automatically
creating engaging, short-form videos from their
existing text content. Well cover how it works and
how you can seamlessly integrate the Wibbitz
Control-Room into your team and newsroom.
10:15 - 10:45
Keynote speech
What can Google still bring

to the Future of News?
Google is having a transformative effect on journalism.
Google News has revolutionised how people consume
information and the Google Media Tools are enriching
the newsgathering experience. But the search giant is
also being questioned because of its disruption of the
news business model. David Drummond, senior Vice
President at Google, is here to answer questions about
his companys future contribution to journalism - and
present his vision for establishing win-win partnerships
with media organisations.
David Drummond, Senior Vice President,
Google
10:45 - 11:00
Speaker:
Zohar Dayan, Co-founder & CEO
Guest speaker:
Lou Ferrara, Associated Press
Fourth round of the Startups for

News competition With Fotokite & Newskid
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break
9:30 - 9:45
Lecture
Why journalists should (at

least sometimes) be activists
Dan Gillmor, blogger, author, speaker,
media investor and co-founder of several
online businesses
9:45 - 10:15
Keynote Speech:
Expanding the Washington

Posts Reach
The Washington Post is throwing a wrench in the wheel
of conventional reading experience by spearheading
an innovative digital strategy of adaptive, immersive
journalism. The papers recent app on Kindle is a step
in that direction and a testament for the collaboration
between the paper and Amazon, the worlds biggest
online retailer.
Cory Haik, Executive Producer and Senior
Editor, Digital News, Washington Post
#GENSUMMIT
11:30 - 12:10
Why Prototypes Matter:

From User Experience to
Design Thinking
Until 2015, innovation came from outside newsrooms.
Today, journalists, developers and graphic designers
are able to set up prototypes and test new
editorial services internally: innovation is back in
the newsroom! How do these media innovators
understand user engagement and practise a
new collaborative process to craft higher quality
journalism?
With:
Justin Ferrell, Media Experiments & Fellowships
Director, Institute of Design, Stanford University

Mariana Santos, Director of Interactive and
Animation, Fusion Media
Adam Thomas, Chief of Product, Storyful
Moderator: Gerold Riedmann, CEO,
Russmedia Digital
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FRIDAY 19 JUNE 18:45 - 19:00
Vote for the most innovative

startup of the year
tartups for News is an international

competition that rewards the most
innovative startups disrupting the media
industry. GEN is bringing you startups that
challenge the status quo with new editorial
services for newsrooms.
With this programme, GEN is helping create
interaction between startup innovators and
senior media executives, thus encouraging
the implementation of innovative practices
in the newsroom. For startup innovators, this
programme is THE platform to access senior
executives who can take them to the next level.
For media executives, it is a unique opportunity
to discover the tools that will shape the future
of journalism and to come away with a fresh
perspective on media innovation from the most
cutting-edge entrepreneurs.
From January to May, GEN showcased 16

startups, which faced off through online
pitch battles. Every two weeks, the video
presentations of two startups working on
a similar theme were posted on the GEN
website. The public voted for their favourite
startup, using 1WorldOnlines voting
technology. The eight winning teams won the
opportunity to pitch their work at the GEN
Summit.
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The Ceremony
n 19 June, the Startups for News contest will culminate with the Startups for News Ceremony where the winner
will be announced by our jury of experts. The winner will receive private mentoring sessions with GEN board
members, great exposure to our powerful network of media innovators through GENs social media channels and
our newsletter, and a stand at the GEN Summit 2016. The public will also be able to vote online for its favourite startup.
Newskid explains
current affairs to
children in an
understandable way, by means of an
immersive visual form, across platforms and
objects, using the Internet of Things and
Augmented Reality technology while being
both educational and fun.
Datavisual gives
storytellers the
power to captivate
with data. Our
template driven, web-based software
removes design/development workflow
bottlenecks empowering everyone in
the newsroom to easily create beautiful,
web ready charts and graphs.
Contact: dwoo@datavisu.al
Website: datavisu.al
The Fotokite
is a tethered
flying camera
for journalists to
access easily aerial perspectives in
order to tell their stories better, without
the complications and disruption of
traditional drones.
Contact: mathieunc@fotokite.com
Website: fotokite.com
Contact: info@minushu.com
Website: newskid.org
SAM powers social

media workflows for
newsrooms. From
powerful social media
search, collaborative curation and UGC
processing to beautiful embeds for
storytelling.
Contact: fergus@samdesk.io or

James@samdesk.io
Website: samdesk.io
the eight
finalists
SourceRise
connects journalists
to on-the-ground NGO sources
during humanitarian crises in order to
bridge the information gap between
humanitarian and crisis news reporting.
Contact: caroline@sourcerise.org
Website: sourcerise.org
Storyform is a
storytelling platform
helping publishers
create, track and monetise more
engaging content.
Contact: hello@storyform.co
Website: storyform.co
Stringr is a mobile and web

enabled video marketplace
that allows its customers
to request, preview and
purchase footage of
anythinganywherein 60 minutes.
Contact: lindsay@stringr.com
Website: stringr.com
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Outbrain
11:30 12:15
12:15 - 13:00
A revolution in the
newsroom: Best practices
of the data-driven
The newsroom has been transformed by data. But
what comes next? What will be done with this new
level of insight, and how? Join us for a Masterclass
presentation on the technologies and tools being
deployed for editorial action, workflow and
optimisation among many of the worlds leading
digital media brands.
Speaker:
John Logioco,
Executive Vice President, Outbrain
New video formats: what is

working, what is not
Popular short-form video services like Vine, Instagram
and Snapchat are becoming common tools in news
coverage. Going with the idea that less is more, these
new short video formats are not only allowing news
organisations to tap into a bigger audience, but also
the ability to get more content from viewers. In this
session, we dig deep into these services to discover
their practical use in your newsroom.
With:
Inga Thordar,
Editor, BBC World News

Elizabeth Eastham,
Digital Director, SNTV
Sven Christian,
Head of Video, Spiegel Online
Sylvain Attal,
Chief Editor, New Media, France 24
Moderator:
Christoph Pleitgen,
Senior Vice President, Business

Development, Wochit
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Storyful
13:10 14:30
SPECIAL LUNCH
Friday 19 June, Aula 1
Cracking the code

of the social newsroom
During this lunch Masterclass, Storyful Founder and
Director of Innovation, Mark Little, will outline how
his vision has arrived at a new and exciting chapter
for Storyful. Storyfuls approaches and standards are
being adopted by newsrooms all over the world, all of
whom are finding more success in cracking the code of
the social web. Join Mark to find out how to increase
engagement, build new revenue streams and reduce
workflow using social content and smart thinking.
And, if youre searching for insights into cultivating
innovation, adapting to new technologies and
creating apps with real value, Chief Product Officer,
Adam Thomas, will share some Storyful technology
secrets that have allowed a small team to redefine
newsgathering for the social age.
Speakers:
Mark Little, Founder & Director of Innovation
Adam Thomas, Chief Product Officer
Colm Curneen, Director of Business Development
14:30 - 15:10
With the Benefit of Hindsight

(Or Our Biggest Mistakes)
This session was very successful at the GEN Summit
2014 and were back for round two! Hindsight is
a wonderful thing. Many of us would turn the clock
back if we could. What are the biggest mistakes these
leading executives made, and how can we learn from
them?
With:
Mark Little, Founder and Director of
Editorial Innovation, Storyful
Peter Bale, CEO, The Center for Public
Integrity (formerly Vice President, Digital,

CNN International)
Mara Ramrez, Deputy Editor and Cofounder, El Espaol

Moderator: Madhav Chinnappa, Head
of Strategic Relations, News & Publishers,
Google
15:10 - 15:30
13:00 - 13:10
Presentation of the 2016

GEN Summit in Vienna
From 15 to 17 June 2016 at Aula der Wissenschaften
- an early baroque building in the centre of Vienna
where the Wiener Zeitung, the oldest daily newspaper
in the world, once had its home.
With Ulrike Huemer, Viennas Chief
Information Officer in charge of the Viennas

Digital Agenda
13:10 - 14:30
Lunch in the GEN EXPO area
&
Robot Journalism: Dont

Wait Till its Too Late
At the moment, business, finance and sports are at
the core of automated journalism because they are
based on data, algorithms and corporate texts that
can be translated into (good) written articles or data
visualisations. Yet there is a variety of unexpected
domains where robots can help journalists but not
replace them!
With:
Lou Ferrara, Vice President and Managing
Editor, Associated Press
Moderator: Geir Terje Ruud, consultant,
Norway
General Assembly of the

(election of the 2015 - 2017 President

and new Board Members)
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15:35 - 16:10
Miguel Castro, Strategic Partnerships,
Podcasting:
The Next Generation of
Audio Storytelling
Moderator: Christophe Deloire, Secretary

General, Reporters without Borders
Podcasting is a platform that is radically changing at

the moment, moving out of niche and into mainstream
markets. Gone are the days when two people sat at
home chatting on their laptop mics. There is a handful
of innovative podcasters who are revolutionising the
genre with in-depth investigative storytelling and highquality audio production. Find out why
your newsroom should be implementing
audio into your multi-media strategy, and
how to do it, from those who already have.
With:
Dana Chivvis, Producer, Serial, Chicago
Public Media
Siobhn McHugh, Editor, RadioDoc
Review
Francesco Baschieri, CEO, Spreaker

Moderator: Mark Rock, Founder & CEO,
The Adio Corporation

16:10 - 16:30
Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:10
Why and How Editors and

Foundations can Work
Hand in Hand
Non-profit news organisations are doing some of
the most innovative work in the industry, filling gaps
left by a shrinking mainstream media. How do the
organisations that fund them the growing often USled philanthropy groups assess their effectiveness
and choose which projects to support. Leaders in the
philanthropic sector combine with leaders in non-profits
to run this panel.
With:
Michael Bolden, Editorial Director, Knight
Foundation
Maria-Teresa Ronderos, Director,
Programme on independent journalism,

Open Society Foundations
#GENSUMMIT
Communications, Bill & Melinda Gates

Foundation
17:10 - 17:50
Hyperlocal News:
the come-back
Some digital publishers spent dozen of millions of
dollars on local news and in the same time many
individual or community initiatives sinked: hyperlocal
news were damned, as if it was a good idea
on the paper, but implementation failed. 2015
is a new era for local news with new initiatives
and new business models. The new players
have taken advantage of the failures of their
predecessors.
With:
Tarek Atia, Publisher, Mantiqti, Egypt
Julie Costes, Director, Paid-for Digital Services,
Le Parisien, France
Jim Brady, CEO & Founder, Billy Penn, USA
Moderator: Marie Gilot, Media Innovation
Associate, Knight Foundation
18:00 19:00
Editors Lab and Startups for

News Ceremonies
The Editors Lab Final is the climax of a series of worldwide
hackdays hosted by GEN and partners. Startups for
News is an international competition rewarding the most
innovative startups disrupting the media industry.
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20:00 - Finger Buffet - 23:00

Third Social Event
Fbrica Moritz
Ronda de Sant Antoni, 41

(walking distance from CCCB)
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editors
Live from the Mirador on
he Editors Lab programme

is a worldwide series of
hackdays hosted by leading
news organisations such as
BBC, El Pas, Reuters... Editors
Lab brings together developers,
journalists and designers from
top newsrooms to build news
prototypes during an intensive twoday competition.
The Global Editors Network has
already run three successful Editors
Lab seasons. Every year, the
season culminates at the Editors
Lab Final where the winning teams
from each national hackdays
battle it out for the title of Editors
Lab Champion (see opposite
page).
It was a truly world class

competition. Listening to and
discussing ideas with top teams
from around the globe was
privilege enough, and without
exception their hackathon projects
were fantastic, said The Times
team about their experience of last
years Editors Lab final.
Participating newsrooms
BBC, United Kingdom
Publico, Portugal
Datum, Austria
Welad El Balad, Egypt
France 24 / RFI, France

Polskie radio, Poland
Citi FM, Ghana
NOS, Netherlands
Pan-Atlantic University, Nigeria
Sasapost, Egypt Iraq Syria
Vanguard, Nigeria
The winning team of BBC Editors

Lab in London
Haaretz, Israel
SenStopEbola, Senegal
EL Observador, Uruguay
The winning team of El Pas Editors

Lab in Madrid and Barcelona
lab final
Wednesday & Thursday
friday, the ceremony

18:00 18:45
Main stage (sala teatre)
ll the winning teams from the

season (see below) will face off
during the Editors Lab Final held
during each annual GEN Summit. This
year, the best of the 16 teams will receive
an award during the final on Friday, at
18:00, in Sala Teatre (main stage).
The Awards for the Editors Lab Final

will be given by:
- Milln I. Berzosa, Professor of Journalism,
Universidad Francisco de Vitoria
- Mar Cabra, Editor, Data & Research Unit at the
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)
- Ying Chan, Director, Journalism and Media Studies
Centre, University of Hong Kong
- Evangeline de Bourgoing, Director of Programmes,

Hackdays have been held in Madrid, London,

Istanbul, Paris, Warsaw, Accra, Cairo, Lagos, New York,
Dakar, Buenos Aires, Amsterdam, Lisbon, Tel Aviv and Vienna.
A worldwide
series of hackdays
1/ Editors Lab gathers
around10 teamsof media
innovators from the best
newsrooms in the country for
atwo-day competition. The
teams are composed of one
developer, one journalist and
one designer.
features for the website,

interactive visualisations,
games, widgets, etc.
2/ The teams work

on athemesuch as
Newsgaming, Rethinking
Live-blogging, Improving
Loyalty, Re-imagining
Comment, etc.
5/ The winning team is

selected bya jury of experts.
The winner is then invited to
take part in the Editors Lab
Final.
3/ They developnews
prototypes: apps, new
4/ They attend workshops

given by our partners who
share their expertise on the
Editors Lab theme.
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The latest data on online news consumption across 12

countries: US, UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Ireland,
Denmark, Finland, Urban Brazil, Japan and Australia
Compelling evidence about the pace of the move to mobile,
the rise of video, the growth of social discovery and the
prospects for native advertising
Analysis from Emily Bell on the role of digital intermediaries;
BBC Director of News, James Harding on fragmentation of
news consumption; and Robert G. Picard on the business
outlook for paid content
The full 2015 report will be online from 16th June at:
www.digitalnewsreport.org
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The New York Times
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and best journalistic practices from its agenda-setting
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business people in the new
global economy. We publish
bracingly creative and intelligent journalism with a
broad worldview, built primarily for the devices closest
at hand: tablets and mobile phones.
The International Center

for Journalists (ICFJ) is
at the forefront of the
news revolution. Our
programmes empower
journalists and engage citizens with new technologies
and best practices. ICFJs networks of reporters and
media entrepreneurs are transforming the field. We
believe that better journalism leads to better lives.
France 24 consists of three separate
TV channels which broadcast in

French, English and Arabic 24
hours a day, seven days a week.
They share the same mission of
providing a global public service
and a common editorial stance.
The website is also available in three languages. The
journalists from the three channels work together,
pooling their expertise.
The Deutscher Journalisten-Verband

(German Federation of Journalists)
is the professional association, trade
union and service center for German
journalists. With about 38,000
members, it is among the largest
journalists organisations in Europe.
The DJV was founded in Berlin in 1949 where its
current headquarters are located.
The International Journalists

Network (IJNet) delivers the latest on
global media innovation, news apps
and tools, training opportunities
and expert advice for professional
and citizen journalists worldwide.
Produced by the International Center
for Journalists, IJNet follows the shifting journalism
scene from a global perspective in seven languages:
Arabic, Chinese, English, Persian, Portuguese, Russian
and Spanish.
EFT Business is an independent
digital financial media company.

We provide business analysis,
financial news, as well as profile
features to our readers worldwide.
SOON SOON SOON is a
crowdsourced information platform

on lifestyle innovation. Thanks to a
unique and international community
of more than 1,300 spotters spared
over 17 countries, SOON SOON
SOON detects and broadcasts the best lifestyle
innovations of the moment to its more than 50,000
readers in areas such as health, architecture, smart
cities, design and food.
mberzosa.com is a portal
dedicated to journalism,
communication, marketing,
digital culture and new
media. The website is created by Milln I. Berzosa
(@mberzosa), consultant and professor of journalism
at the University Francisco de Vitoria. Berzosa has
an in-depth knowledge of newsrooms and a long
experience in leading corporate communications and
digital strategy. He has been a contributor to GEN
since 2012.
Dataninja is an award
winning data journalism

network based in Italy. It was
founded by Andrea Nelson
Mauro, a data journalist, and Alessio Cimarelli, a
data scientist. Dataninja brings together lovers of data
and innovation who spend their time working on data
journalism and data visualisation, both for business
projects and in support of the OpenData movement.
Dataninja is an independent team that works with
Italian and European publishers, NGOs and public
institutions.
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At the School of
Communication
and International
Relations
Blanquerna, within Ramon Llull University, our main

function is to educate and train journalists, public
relations professionals, publicists, and professionals
in the fields of cinema, television and International
Relations. We provide an education based on a
personalised methodology, which encourages students
creativity, critical analysis and interdisciplinary work.
The Online News Association is the

worlds largest association of digital
journalists. ONAs mission is to inspire
innovation and excellence among
journalists to serve the public better.
The membership includes news writers,
producers, designers, editors, bloggers, developers,
photographers, educators, students and others who
produce news for and support digital delivery systems.
ONA also hosts the annual Online News Association
conference and administers the Online Journalism
Awards. Learn more at journalists.org.
Mobile Reporter enables

anyone to create and manage
their own personal newsroom.
Professional and citizen
journalists find and engage
contributors, edit text, photo
and video shared from multiple sources, compose
dynamic thematic sections, build their audience and
syndicate their exclusive content to boost visibility and
monetisation across the web.
Moritz goes back to being the beer
of Barcelona thanks to its return

to the Catalan capital in 2004.
The company, Cerveses Moritz,
founded in 1856 by Louis Moritz
in the Barcelona Raval, is closely linked to the city
for its commercial activity, its product and its diverse
leisure and cultural activities connected to the city and
Catalonia in which it participates.
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RELIVE THE CONFERENCE ON VIDEO

This year, many panel sessions and keynote

speeches, as well as the DJA ceremony, will
be made available one month after the GEN
Summit on a video-on-demand portal,
complete with several interviews. Access
to these videos will be free of charge for all
GEN Summit delegates and speakers.
The VOD portal will be open mid-July.
All conference participants will receive
information about it at this time, and it will
be featured in the GEN newsletter.
For any further information, please ask
any GEN staff member or write to us at:
contact@globaleditorsnetwork.org
Watch and replay the

GEN Summit on VOD
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Be part of an intimate study group of editors to engage in open and
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HOME
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JOURNALISTS
Founded in 1985, the Collegi de Periodistes (Association of Professional Journalists of
Catalonia) is, with 4000 members, the nations professional organization of journalists.
The Association of Professional Journalists of Catalonia is dedicated to:
1. Encouraging a climate in which journalism can be practiced more freely,
2. Stimulating high standards and ethical behavior in the practice of journalism,
3. Guaranteeing the freedom of the press as a key element of a democratic society
Rambla de Catalunya, 10
08007 Barcelona
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discover famous Baroque palaces and Art Nouveau buildings.
The GEN Summit 2016 will take place from
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Centre de Cultura Contempornia de Barcelona

Montalegre, 5 - 08001 Barcelona 17 - 19 June 2015

Google has been a proud and engaged strategic

Knight Foundation supports transformational ideas that

Telefnica is one of the largest telecommunications

Uncovering the stories that need to be told. At Al

the Summit App

he widening reach of social media is

GEN President (2012 - 2015)

And for the next three days of the GEN

Our main evening event, the Data

the programme - day 2

16 leading companies, suppliers and organisations are

Three bootcamps and one exclusive demo* are

Do not miss the Data Journalism Awards ceremony at CosmoCaixa on

18 & 19 june 2015

The World Cup of newsroom innovation, the final

Starting on Thursday at 11:30am, seven workshops from

Following the Editors Lab final on Friday, stay in Sala

Three special evenings not to miss: please refer to pages

Come for a walk

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18 & 19 june 2015

1World Online provides

Uncovering the stories that

When your audience has

From January to May,

Wayra is Telefnicas startup

Wibbitz envisions a world

the programme - day 3

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the programme - day 1

Flickr: Asian Development Bank

Founding members: Al-Ahram, China Daily, Clarn,

The Climate Publishers Network is coordinated by

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We are in the prehistory of wearable news: the devices

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Kelly Leach, CEO, Piano Media

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