Free Post social media Abuse, arrogant tech VCs and hypocrisy everywhere. It's time for the weekend, folks. The tech VC community shows its true face, social media gets toxic and… Oh, can we just have a break, please?
Free Post virtual reality New journalism formats for the climate crisis Getting journalism to those who need to read it is vital to addressing climate change. Here’s three solutions presented at the News Impact Summit in Birmingham.
Free Post climate crisis Climate Crisis: Bringing science and journalism together How do we communicate the science of climate change effectively? How do we walk between the poles of advocacy and false debate? A panel addressed this critical journalism issue at the News Impact Summit in Birmingham.
Free Post quartz Newsletters: how to connect communities Newsletters are an intensely personal medium. Here’s how to do them right - and use them to make an impact.
Free Post climate reporting Covering Climate Now: what we can learn from a week of focused climate crisis reporting The Columbia Journalism Review’s Jon Allsop talks through the key learnings of a major project to improve climate reporting that involved over 300 news organisations.
Free Post news impact summit Forbidden Stories: telling the climate change stories that lone journalists can’t Forbidden Stories aims to step in when critical climate stories are in danger of dying - and the journalist along with it. connecting journalists makes them safer - and the reporting more powerful.
Free Post drones Using drones to document climate change Sean Gallagher is documenting the climate crisis in places like Tuvalu, and drones are allowing him to get shots that have incredible impact on the reader. Here’s how he does it.
Free Post financial times The Financial Times: Telling the climate crisis story in video Video lives outside the FT paywall, and give the team the chance to reach people they normally wouldn’t. But they have to use an unusual ingredient: emotion.
Free Post extinction rebellion Extinction Rebellion and the media As climate protest break out across the world again — how does Extinction Rebellion see the media, and what role does it play? A discussion from the News Impact Summit in BiRmingham.
Free Post news impact summit ClimateAdam: Humanising the Climate Crisis story Adam Levy is a science journalist who has turned to YouTube to tell the climate crisis story. Here’s why.
Free Post climate change Connectivity is the world's destiny, says Parag Khanna (RSA Event) The link between connectivity of various sorts and social change is something that’s almost bound to interest me, given that I’ve spent over a decade of my life
Free Post climate change Coffee: doomed by global warming? Time to start panicking: Researchers at Kew believe that the wild arabica coffee bean, whose cultivated cousin is the basis of most of the coffee drunk around the world, could die out in the wild within 70 years. If it does, a main source
Free Post blogging A Day in the Life of a Blog Platform One of the nice things about having system admin rights for the Movable Type install that powers the 150+ blogs we’re running right now is that I can see all comments as they come into the system, and guage what’s attracting attention.
Free Post #TEDxTuttle : The Future of Buildings Martin Hanczyc is working with Protocells – organic computers programmed through chemistry. Some of them have architectural features – making physical products. You can make shells, or other shapes. She’s showing a demo of what she calls very basic chemistry, as a protocell moves into