Microblogging event dedicated to UK Media and Journalists

If you’re based in the UK with an interest in Microblogging and journalism, then media140 looks like an essential event.

It’s on May 20th, on the Southbank in London, and features a mix of case studies and panels with journalists from The Times, Guardian, Reuters, Sky News, Journalism.co.uk and Frontline Club. Plus prominent social media bloggers.

Topics will include:
– how to persuade journalists to take and use twitter seriously.
– what is news worthy, how do you recognise it?
– breaking the news, how you can potentially undermine your own news room
– will local community create local news through microblog technologies?
– tools of the trade, what works and what doesn’t?
– is microblogging and twitter really a game changer?

Tickets are £45 and available now. For more details, see the media140 website.