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  • Making video material verifiable – identifiable features

    Reading Journalism and a world in transition: Wadah Khanfar’s James Cameron memorial lecture I thought I’d pick out this passage which relates to how Syrian activists have helped make material easier to verify: The repetitive doubting, for instance by the Syrian authorities, of what al-Jazeera transmits of news and pictures received via Facebook, Twitter or YouTube and […]

    October 9, 2011
  • Atomicecho to leguape dot com

    I figured that after nearly 11 years of using leguape as my login for pretty much everything, I might as well go the whole hog and start using the domain name, seeing as I own it. There are other leguape available on the internet, who you are welcome to explore. But this is where I […]

    September 1, 2011
  • #bbcsms: BBC processes for verifying social media content

    Below is the text of an article I wrote for the BBC College of Journalism website on verification processes for social media in BBC News, published 11 May 2011: From Tunisia, via Egypt, to Libya and Syria, verifying and acquiring eyewitness/citizen journalist/user-generated content has become increasingly complicated as the material has become more sophisticated. At […]

    May 11, 2011
  • Newsgathering in the open

    My tweets from a discussion with Andy Carvin and Jay Rosen on the nature of Andy’s twitter work: is it newsgathering or news reporting?

    May 3, 2011
  • Applying for tickets: a costly and risky Olympic game

    So today the London 2012 ticketing site opened. Important things went well: It didn’t suffer a logjam of people hitting F5 like deranged woodpeckers. It was possible to apply for things in a relatively clear manner. You got a pretty good user journey through the process. Now about some of the other stuff… It is […]

    March 16, 2011
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