Today HuffPost turns 7. @producermatthew compiled screenshots of HuffPost’s front page from each year (2005 until today).
Happy Birthday: A look at the Huffington Post, from launch until today, on the website’s seventh birthday. [Photos: Internet Archive]
On Thursday, I attended the Guardian Activate Summit here in New York. It brought together media and tech thought leaders to discuss how to make the world a better place through the Internet. Here are 10 key takeaways from the event, followed by a more comprehensive overview I put together.
1. What do you propose to do? [20 words]
Empower journalists on social networks by growing their following and giving them tools to excel.
2. Is anyone doing something like this now and how is your project different? [30 words]
Social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Quora highlight…
Last day at NBC News. Here’s what’s next.
Thanks, Jacci! (My news) via oncontent:
… and it’s Craig Kanalley who is returning to HuffPo after a three month stint at NBC News.
Interesting - via breakingblog:
In the early stages of breaking news, there’s often a tremendous amount of conflicting information. Take this afternoon’s shooting at a psychiatric clinic in Pittsburgh as a prime example. For well over an hour, victim counts varied, and rumors of a second gunman and hostages dominated Twitter and even some media reports.
Here at BreakingNews, we use an internal chat tool — a “backchannel” — to evaluate and confirm updates in real-time.
Glad to be part of this project!
Survey Says! #whyJournalism
A recent question in our inbox asked, “What is it about journalism that you love? Why did you become a journalist?”
I began replying, looked at what I was writing, decided it was pretty dull and cast my net on Twitter where I asked #whyJournalism and linked to a simple Google form for people to answer.
Above is a collection of some of the answers we received. Some interesting replies not shown here include people motivated by specific events. For example, NBC’s Craig Kanalley points to 9/11 and his inspiration about how the press covered it. He posted about it on his Tumblr. Jay Corcoran, a documentary film maker, writes:
Inspired? The AIDS epidemic. I spent years watching my young talented friends die, shrouded in secrecy and shame, from complications from AIDS. To deal with my sadness, confusion and rage, I picked up a camera and documented the death of my dear friend, Tom McBride. The result became my first documentary film, Life and Death on the A-List, and I have never looked back.
(Source: futurejournalismproject)
What if there was an app that allowed you to hand a tablet to someone, anyone, and say to them, “Tell me a story”?
This app would need to be intuitive, easy-to-use and perhaps most of all help us figure out that age-old question: where to begin.
Storify has done this, and it’s unleashed the power of the social Web to be characters, quotes and turning points in those stories. Anyone who can search, drag-and-drop and enter some text is on their way. The elements are all there.
Sooo cool…Now you can visualize your LinkedIn colleague network w/ a map. Here’s mine.
The life of @ckanal, a senior editor at The Huffington Post.
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