obituaries

February 21, 2017

Steve Buttry passes: a loss for digital journalism

Sad news: Steve Buttry, a journalist for more than 45 years, died February 19 at age 62 of pancreatic cancer, his third major cancer. If you’re not familiar with Steve, he was one of the most prominent voices exploring…

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January 11, 2016

Meta-curating the death of David Bowie

Curation is the new obituary: 8 ways media outlets marked Bowie’s life and death Paul Bradshaw: The media’s reaction to David Bowie‘s death from cancer early this morning demonstrates just how widely curation has become in journalism…

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Adam is a digital journalism analyst, trainer and consultant. He started his career publishing newspapers for the children on his street in the 1980s, edited student magazines in the 1990s, and then spent a decade as a business journalist. In 2006, he moved full-time into digital journalism development. Since 2012, he's been trading as an independent consultant, and has worked with everything from national and international newspapers, to small local charities.

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