storyful
The Guardian catches Storyful tracking what videos journalists are watching
Storyful has been running an internal feed of all the videos clients using its Chrome extension watch. Is this malice or incompetence?
Mark Little
Twitter hires Storyful founder Mark Little
Smart move by Twitter [http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/nov/10/twitter-hires-storyful-founder-for-senior-international-role] : > Mark Little, the founder of News Corp owned social news agency Storyful, has been hired as a senior executive across Twitter’s international operation. Few people have been as successful in recognising the potential of combining
digital journalism
The fall of MH17, told through social media
Fascinating account from Storyful about their social media verification work around the downing of flight MH17 [http://blog.storyful.com/2014/07/19/how-social-sleuthing-uncovered-evidence-of-anti-aircraft-missile-system-in-eastern-ukraine/] : > In the aftermath of the attack, the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal affairs released the video below, described as showing a ‘Buk’ anti-aircraft missile system being
acquisitions
Social Media Verification is journalism's new frontier
I missed this last week [http://newscorp.com/2013/12/20/news-corp-acquires-social-news-agency-storyful/] : > Accelerating News Corp’s digital transformation and video strategy, the company has acquired Storyful, the world’s first social news agency. Storyful, of course, are a brilliant lot, who have made the skill of verifying stories and
elections
Saturday morning coffee reading - 25th August 2012
Five things that are worth reading over your morning coffee… * The shop window is the only place to be in the digital high street [http://whatsheonaboutnow.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/the-shop-window-is-only-place-to-be-in.html] – a nice summation of the problems with Apple’s Newsstand, based on David Hepworth’s experience with