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How breaking news works now, and why Storyful wants to help
By now, most of us have gotten used to the idea that news no longer comes exclusively from one or two mainstream sources such as a newspaper or TV channel — in many cases, we see it first on Twitter or...
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The disappearing web: Information decay is eating away our history
One of the characteristics of the modern media age — at least for anyone who uses the web and social media a lot — is that we are surrounded by vast clouds of rapidly changing information, whether it’s...
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To see the value of social media, watch what happened in Turkey when the...
There’s been a lot written over the past few months about how unreliable social media can be when it comes to chaotic real-time news events like the Boston bombings, and how it perpetuates untruths and...
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For some in Arab nations, Facebook is the only news source that matters
When it comes to the evolution of media, and the growing role of social networks in how the news is distributed, there is often a focus on trends in the United States and North America — the death of...
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Andy Carvin, a pioneer in using Twitter for real-time journalism, joins...
First Look Media — the new media entity that eBay (s ebay) founder Pierre Omidyar is building and has promised to fund to the tune of at least $250 million — is still in its formative stages, but one...
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Social media helps governments monitor their citizens — but it also helps...
The vast quantities of information we reveal about ourselves as we move around the internet and interact through social networks — what some have called the “data exhaust” of our lives, from GPS...
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The New Visionaries: Eli Ingraham
I met Eli Ingraham not too many years ago, but have only really been talking with her actively during the past few months, as we’ve been strategizing the Future of Work community together, where she’s...
View ArticleBrown Moses, his alter ego Eliot Higgins, and the rise of the self-trained...
The term “citizen journalism” gets thrown around a lot, used to refer to everything from people tweeting in crisis zones to high-school students covering city-council meetings. But for me at least, one...
View ArticleAndy Carvin launches social-media reporting team for First Look
There’s been a lot of news out of First Look Media recently, although not the kind that the site was hoping to deliver: instead of scoops, it’s been a stream of reports about mismanagement and...
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How social media affects protest movements: It’s complicated
If you mention social-media platforms like Twitter or Facebook in the context of political uprisings in places like Turkey or Ukraine or Egypt — or even the Occupy movement in the United States — the...
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