The relationship between professional and amateur journalists is starting eo emerge. Explore how non-professionals connected by social networks and tools influence new models of storytelling and workflow involving eyewitnesses, amateurs and professionals. Session Chair: Louis Ferrara, Managing Editor Sports, Entertainment & Multimedia, The Associated Press With: Michael Tippett, Co-Founder, NowPublic Kate Marymont, Executive Editor, The […]
If UNU mission is “to contribute, through research and capacity building, to efforts to resolve the pressing global problems that are a concern of the United Nations, its Peoples and Member States“. But the budget of 40 million dollars (not from the regular budget of UN), for a think tank of 306 people, developing “the […]
On the technological challenge of making political news easier to digest…(and my attempts to digest everything being said and blog it up) With so much information out there on the political campaigns (nearly every one this year had an official blog; unofficial blogs are even more abundant), how to manage content… Most interesting to me […]
Michael Silberman, EchoDitto “Political campaigns have been having a ot of trouble figuring out how to empower their volunteers to do actual field work.” Amy Schatz, Wall Street Journal “This cycle, news organizations are experimenting… trying Facebook, etc. We’re not sure how much this is helping anybody.” Ellen Miller, Sunlight Foundation “It has been remarkable […]
After introductions by Jim Kennedy of the AP, Mary Hodder of Dabble describes that the Semantic Systems needed have to have relevence and context. She gives the example of the World Cup – where people care about the “head butt” and not the play by play of the game that media provided. Would media be […]
We’re about to start this panel, located on a floor accessible only by two elevators, so people are coming in in batches of 8. The topic: “Who can you trust in the We Media landscape? Where’s the line between commerce and information? No more is it a question of parsing the biases of individual media […]