Digital Editors Network

Just back in Old Blighty after a great week in Cape Town with the news execs on our Journalism Innovation & Leadership Programme from England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and South Africa with others coming in online from Ethiopia, Fiji, Georgia, Ghana, and Wales. Engergised more than exhausted.

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If you haven't yet, check out this long (32-pages!) list of fake news sources compiled by a US academic. And do add to it.

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SLIDES & FEEDBACK: Our lively discussion at Google’s London offices around the relationship between publishers and platforms was more than a month ago - but the issue is still very much on our minds.

If you're also still thinking about it too, then we hope you’ll let us know what you think we might do to move the conversation on.

To thank you for your thoughts on that - any other suggestions about speakers, hosts and sponsorship of future DEN meetings - we’d like to offer you the opportunity to download the presentations by the Reuters Institute’s Nic Newman on the Digital News Report and AOL’s Oliver Tobias on their Publishers Outlook 2016 study: https://goo.gl/forms/6n4mj0GRVPm2tcr92

Also: So far, more than 240 editorial, technology, commercial and senior managers at news media companies have told the researchers from the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) about their strategic priorities. If you’d like a free copy of the World News Media Outlook report summary, complete the 20-question survey by Friday, October 21st. https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/WNMO2016English

Finally, we're planning the Spring 2017 DEN meeting and will certainly keep you in the loop.

If you have any further questions or suggestions, please don’t hesitate to be in touch.

RESEARCH UPDATE: Want to know the strategic priorities of 200 news media executives?

Contribute to this study and find out what more than 200 editorial, technology, commercial and senior managers at news media companies have also told researchers working with the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) about their strategic priorities.

Participants get a free copy WAN-IFRA's new World News Media Outlook report summary and an invitation to an exclusive WAN-IFRA webinar.

Don't delay, the 20-question survey is only open until Monday, October 17th: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/WNMO2016English

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Are you thinking about innovative ways to engage with news communities? Then you’ll want to participate in the next meetup on November 19th at BBC News, where the discussions will focus on how digital publishers are trying to reach news audiences – on a local, national and global scale.

With opening remarks by BBC News Digital Development Director James Montgomery and speakers including Dmitry Shishkin, BBC World Service Digital Editor; Elisabeth Plank, Senior Editor at the leading news media company for young people Mic; Alec Saelens, a co-founder of The Bristol Cable; and Change.org talking about campaigning communities, this is not one to miss.

We’ll learn about the latest research into youth news habits around the world, debate the fragmentation of audiences, and discuss the latest techniques that publishers (and other sectors) employ to engage audiences and build communities on digital platforms.

To reserve one of the still available 30 places, sign up at: http://dencommunity.eventbrite.co.uk/

Mark your diaries! The next DEN meetup has now been confirmed for 6 November 2014 in Canary Wharf. More details about the theme and our hosts to follow.

Our network's expanding!

While the meetup on June 5th at the Financial Times is booked out, we've be able to add an interactive hookup to Johannesburg - thanks to Steve Matthewson of BDFM and folks at JoziHub and Google Africa.

Sign up at: http://visualdenjozi.eventbrite.co.uk .

Is it time to rethink Web video from the ground up? Adam Westbook thinks so. And he'll be giving his reason why - and some ways it might be done at the next DEN meetup on June 6th at the FT: http://visualden.eventbrite.co.uk