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