Tag: newsfoo

• Fact-checking, redux

  This year’s Newsfoo felt to me rather different from the 2010 edition. There seemed to be less discussion of how to sustain or resource news, or about the contexts of news consumption, and more about how to deal with some of the cognitive, knowledge-management and even ethical issues of news journalism. This post is on initiatives/tools…

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  21/12/2011

  Events, Human rights, Journalism, Media, Technology, Work

  authenticity, avaaz, comedy, fact-checking, knowledge management, newsfoo, verification, visualisation

• Gatewing X100 product video 2011 (by Gatewing – see Gatewing’s site) (Source: http://player.vimeo.com/)

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  03/12/2011

  Work

  drone journalism, journalism, newsfoo, Video

• NGOs and the new news environment, in The Economist

  I’m wearing my News Foo t-shirt in honour of the chain of conversations that has led to my being quoted in Tom Standage’s excellent Special Report in this week’s Economist, on the future of news. (Update: And in additional News Foo connections, Meg Pickard kindly extended an invitation to give a brown bag talk at…

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  09/07/2011

  Activism, Human rights, Journalism, Media, Technology, Work

  interview, newsfoo, the economist, the guardian

• Making news content more transparent

  [October 8th 2014 – Reg Chua’s concept of Structured Journalism (and posts exploring the concept) is the answer to some of my prayers below.] [Update on 22 March, 2011: Professor George Brock of City University is advocating the systematic use of footnotes by journalists to acknowledge primary source material.] [Update on 24 Feb, 2011: in a…

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  13/02/2011

  Journalism, Media, Technology, Work

  accountability, accuracy, blogging, futureofnews, gsxsw, journalism, media, media development, metadata, news, newsfoo, sourcing, structured journalism, transparency

• Green lions and gravity

  The conversations at Newsfoo afforded both the chance to delve deeper into topics and ideas with very sharp-minded people, and to reflect a little bit on a meta level on what all this ceaseless inquiry and activity means.  Listening in particular to discussions about sustainability, business models and revenue generation, it made me think of Sir…

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  21/01/2011

  Events, Journalism, Technology, Work

  20% time, isaac newton, newsfoo, occult, questions, science