Fooing the (News)Foo
On the first weekend in December, I had the good fortune to be part of a group of 150 people brought together at ASU in Phoenix, Arizona, by O’Reilly, Knight Foundation and Google for Newsfoo, a Foo...
View ArticleNew forms for the long-form
A note: Newsfoo provided me with significant food for thought. I was warned this would happen. The post that sits below is one of many that have been rolling around in my head like little balls of...
View ArticleGreen 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...
View ArticleMaking news content more transparent
[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...
View ArticleNGOs 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....
View ArticleFact-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...
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Gatewing X100 product video 2011 (by Gatewing – see Gatewing’s site) (Source: http://player.vimeo.com/)Filed under: Work Tagged: drone journalism, journalism, newsfoo, Video
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