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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)

[email protected]

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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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

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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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
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Finger Buffet

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Carrer de Sant Quint, 89
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9:30 18:30
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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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10:45 - 11:00

12:20 - 13:00

Inside Al Jazeera: Operations

of a Global Media Network

First battle 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 vs 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

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

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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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Second battle of the Startups for

News competition
With SourceRise vs Stringr

13:10 - 14:30
Lunch in the GEN EXPO area

Aquafadas

14:30 15:15

Thursday 18 June, Aula 2

Access next to GEN Expo entrance, 1st floor

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

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 battle of the Startups for News

competition With Datavisual vs 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,

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Wochit

17:00 17:45

Thursday 18 June, Aula 2

Access next to GEN Expo entrance, 1st floor

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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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
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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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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

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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 10:00
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Friday 19 June, Aula 1

Access next to GEN Expo entrance, 1st floor

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 battle of the Startups for

News competition With Fotokite vs 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

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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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Outbrain

11:30 12:15

Thursday 18 June, Aula 1

12:15 - 13:00

Access next to GEN Expo entrance, 1st floor

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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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.

android

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download the
gen app to vote
In partnership with:

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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: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
Website: fotokite.com

Contact: [email protected]
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: [email protected] or

[email protected]
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: [email protected]
Website: sourcerise.org

Storyform is a
storytelling platform
helping publishers
create, track and monetise more
engaging content.
Contact: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
Website: stringr.com

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Harness the
power of social
networking
embed essential social elements
directly on-site and watch your visitors
grow into an active and engaged
community centered around your
brand.
Contact: [email protected]
Website: spot.IM

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Storyful

13:10 14:30
SPECIAL LUNCH
Friday 19 June, Aula 1

Access next to GEN Expo entrance, 1st floor

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
&

General Assembly of the

Global Editors Network
(election of the 2015 - 2017 President
and new Board Members)

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

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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.

See page 40-41 & 48-49

20:00 - Finger Buffet - 23:00

Third Social Event

Fbrica Moritz

Ronda de Sant Antoni, 41

(walking distance from CCCB)
See page 30

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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

In partnership with:

The winning team of El Pas Editors

Lab in Madrid and Barcelona

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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, Multimedia Investigative Journalist, and
Reporter with ICIJ
- Ying Chan, Director, Journalism and Media Studies
Centre, University of Hong Kong
- Evangeline de Bourgoing, Director of Programmes,
Global Editors Network

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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GEN Summit

2016
in Vienna:
Save the

DATE
The City of Vienna is proud to welcome the GEN Summit
to Austria in 2016. Walk in the footsteps of the Habsburgs,
discover famous Baroque palaces and Art Nouveau buildings.
The GEN Summit 2016 will take place from
15 to 17 June 2016.

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