Walkleys announces Guardian US interactive editor for Storyology conference

The Guardian US’s interactive editor Gabriel Dance is to speak at The Walkley Foundation’s upcoming Storyology conference.

The conference, to be held on August 6 to 9, now includes a number of international journalism thinkers such as Dance, editorial director of BuzzFeed of Scott Lamb and Erin Polgreen, founder Symbolia: The Tablet Magazine of Illustrated Journalism.

“If you look at the work Gabriel is doing he is really at the forefront of the revolution in data journalism,” said Jacqueline Park Walkley Magazine editor.

“He is doing some of the most amazing work both in terms of the data, the development but also in the visuals and the graphics.”