Grasswire’s founder says he launched the crowdsourced breaking-news service because he believes the power of the crowd to generate and curate news is a much stronger force for good than many… Read more »
News Corp.’s acquisition of Storyful for $25 million is a sign of how important user-generated content has become, so I spoke with Raju Narisetti of News Corp. and Storyful founder Mark… Read more »
From the front room of his flat in a British suburb, an unemployed man with no journalistic training named Eliot Higgins has become the go-to source for information about weapons and… Read more »
Wall Street Journal technology writer Farhad Manjoo says there’s no point in paying attention to what younger users do, because they are poor predictors of technology trends — but he couldn’t… Read more »
Facebook originally allowed users to post videos of beheadings, arguing that it was similar to a TV news network, but now the company has removed them — making it unclear how… Read more »
Instagram has launched a new feature that allows users to share short video clips — but photos and video are very different animals, and the audience for the latter may not… Read more »
Sources of all kinds — including politicians — can become publishers and distribute their own information directly to an audience, without the need for a traditional media outlet. Is that a… Read more »
Social platforms like YouTube have become a rich source of “citizen journalism” about breaking news events, but media outlets don’t always provide credit. Mark Little of Storyful wants to try and… Read more »
Fans of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer say she shouldn’t be blamed for the company’s history of failed acquisitions — but there are plenty of other reasons to be skeptical about Yahoo’s… Read more »
Fans of the social-blogging network might not like the idea much, but a $1-billion acquisition of Tumblr would arguably solve a number of problems for Yahoo — and do the same… Read more »