Festival Multiple Journalism: Innovative Storytelling on the 29th of March

Dear speaker,

Multiple Journalism (MJ) and publisher VersPers are hosting a festival on

innovative storytelling on the 29th of March for approximately 150 online media
professionals. The festival will take place in Amsterdam. We are glad to welcome
you.

Multiplejournalism.org is an online stage of innovative projects worldwide.

Festival Multiple Journalism can be considered as a pop-up store where
innovators in the creative industry can share their knowledge. The festival
focuses on sharing excellent visual online practices aimed at qualitatively better
and innovative storytelling.

Multiple Journalism (MJ) started in 2013 as a small research project that collects,
discusses and shares new tools in journalism to inspire (young) journalists and
other storytellers. Today, it’s an active online field guide for independent
storytellers that shows the best initiatives in the field of innovation.

Currently innovations in journalism are taking place in all parts of the world. Due
to the initiative of the Dutch documentary maker Bregtje van der Haak, we have
been collecting a lot of these innovative projects to share on
multiplejournalism.org.

VersPers is a platform specialized in training, creating and inventing innovations

in journalism. At VersPers the boundaries of journalism are sought, creative
thinking techniques as a mean to help editors to create productions that are not
necessarily classic journalism but at the core tell the journalistic story.

MJ and VersPers believe that media makers in the digital world are forced to
collaborate with professionals from other creative design sectors. Worldwide,
excellent crossovers have been realized in which different disciplines join forces.
We would like to share this knowledge with others in our field. That’s why we’re
happy to welcome you on the 29th of this month in the A Lab in Amsterdam
(www.a-lab.nl).

POSTADRES
Blankenstraat 270
1018 SJ Amsterdam
Nederland
WWW.MULTIPLEJOURNALISM.ORG
We will be in contact in the following weeks to make all necessary arrangements
in time. You can read the program of the festival below. If you have any
question, don’t hesitate to ask.

Best regards,

Geesje van Haren

Executive producer VersPers
0031 (0)6 22 26 32 60

Devid Ilievski
Project manager / researcher MJ
0031 (0)6 41 83 55 60

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 Time Program
09.30–10.00 Coffee and tea
10.00–10.15 Welcome speech by Geesje van Haren from VersPers and Devid
Ilievski from Multiple Journalism

Short introductions and discussion

Citizen journalism

10.15–11.15 Programmer and media entrepreneur David Kobia about the

power of the Kenyan platform Ushahidi (max. 5 min)

Marina Amaral from the Brazilian citizen-journalistic platform

about free editorial participation (max. 5 min)

Merel Borger received her PhD in participative journalism in

the Netherlands (max 5 min)

Under the guidance of moderator Michel Mol, the experts

conduct a discussion to deepen the subject and to inspire
visitors.

11.15-11.45 Musical intermezzo

Digital culture

11.45-12.45 Stacy Hardy from Chimurenga about the success of cross-

professional collaboration of this South African innovative
multimedia platform (max. 5 min)

Rebecca Winch from The Project Factory (Australia) about

Tatchi: a platform for making Touch docs for film and
documentary makers (max. 5 min)

Andrew Loo Hong Chuang, assistant professor of the Faculty

of Creative Industries, University Tunku Abdul Rahman in
Malaysia (max. 5 min)

Under the guidance of moderator Michel Mol, the experts

conduct a discussion to further deepen the subject and inspire
visitors.

12.45-13.15 Lunch
Musical intermezzo

13.15-13.45 Display of a fragment of a Touch-Doc (15 min) and opportunity

to ask questions from the audience (15 min).

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 Short introductions and discussion
Graphic journalism

13.45–14.50 Dan Archer is a graphic designer and webcomic journalist.

Dutch comic strip journalist Tjeerd Royaards of Cartoon
Movement published his work in the Guardian, Der Spiegel and
Le Monde, among others (max. 5 min)

Noortje van Eekelen from ACED, where design and journalism

come together (max. 5 min)

Jamie Pallot, co-founder of Emblematic: a leading producer in

virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (max. 5 min)

Under the guidance of moderator Michel Mol, the experts

conduct a discussion to deepen the subject and to inspire
visitors.

14.50-15.00 Musical intermezzo

15.00-16.00 Workshops / Meet & Greet

16.00-17.00 Drinks

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