Wendy Tang, member of AAJA-Asia’s Hong Kong subchapter, is tweeting up a storm at the Global Editors Network’s 2011 News World Summit, a gathering of the world’s top editors-in-chief and news executives. She is also a volunteer writing press releases and doing other duties at the event. Among her tweets: Wendy has been promoting AAJA (excellent!) and bumping into AAJA members and friends everywhere (Ying Chan @yingworld, Mike Logan).
Here are some selected tweets from the first three days of the conference. Follow Wendy’s coverage (@wwtang) here. The News World Summit (#news2011) ends November 30.
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Getting ready for @editorsnet’s 1st #news2011 in #hongkong. To check out the conference http://www.news-worldsummit.org http://instagr.am/p/WLPVg/
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“HK Chief Executive Donald Tsang kicks off #news2011! Good morning, summit attendants! (@ Kowloon Shangri-La 九龍香格里拉大酒店) 4sq.com/u0jk91
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1st panel at #news2011 “Bye bye mass media and infobeisty, hello prosumption and @ Kowloon Shangri-La 九龍香格里拉大酒店 http://instagr.am/p/WRBEn/
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“.@joi: 3 types of people are needed in the #newsroom: programming, data and analysis and statistics! Yes!!!! #news2011
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“HKU’s @yingworld said it’s difficult to train journos in comp. science but it’s easier to train comp. scientists how journo works #news2011
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“CNN’s @MeredithA Reuters’@MaJinxin and Oglivy’s @ThomasCrampton take the stage: social networks the world’s new storytellers #news2011
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“@wwtang Appreciate ur live updates on #NEWS2011. Sounds like a really fun & thought-provoking event for #journalists. Wish I could be there!
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“Mike Logan from next media takes the stage to talk about how animation fills the “void” of new events – recreate news. Thoughts? #news2011
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“Hey @AkikoFujita you are in the promo of VJ Movement showing by @tloudon at #news2011! Shout-out to you! Woot! #GoAkiko #AAJA @AAJAAsia
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“RT @journosonline: Watch the News World Summit 2011 taking place now in Hong Kong via livestream at ejc.net/ news-worldsummit.org/ #news2011
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“What’s important 4 MoJo: 8mp camera, wifi &bluetooth, external mic jack… More check w/ @newsplexer and his site: undefined #news2011
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“@brittanyhite Your boss @almarlatour takes the stage now to talk about mobile. I miss @lamthuyvo. #news2011 #AAJA @AAJAAsia
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Here he is! @JulianAssange_ joining #news2011 by @skype are people going to video @ Kowloon Shangri-La 九龍香格里拉大酒店 http://instagr.am/p/WUJgV/
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“Day 2 of @editorsnet (GEN)’s News Summit. I’ll try my best to live tweet again. Folo #news2011 for live update 🙂 4sq.com/uLUim5
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“The #Data-journalism lesson begins now with @propublica’s Paul Steiger with @google’s Peter Barron who moderates. #news2011
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“Instead of hiring all pulitzer journos, Steiger said they try to hire more young data-journos! Wow! What an open-minded #newsroom #news2011
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“.@wblau thank you for sharing your insights. Very precise. I think you are one of the best speakers at #News2011. I’m inspired! 🙂
