NEWS AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT

@magnetbox @corybe

#SIC

NEWS IS GETTING FASTER AND SMALLER

Newspaper TV Web

Newspaper TV Web Mobile+social

Smaller and smaller content context

MORE NEWSMORE TYPES OF NEWSMORE SOURCES OF NEWS

The story is covered before the media gets there.

Cameras are just about everywhere.

The future: Better cameras + more cameras + more bandwidth

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Everyone is covering themselves.

Social media amplifies and accelerates.

“It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.” - @clayshirky

Editors

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Technology

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Community

@breakingnews

BreakingNews.com

What’s happening right now,

straight from the source.

@breakingnews

BreakingNews.com

What’s happening right now,

straight from the source.

EVERYONE WANTS THE NEWS THEY GET TO BE TRUE

Political fact-checking

VERIFICATION

VERIFICATION

Political fact-checking

VERIFICATION

Crowd curation

VERIFICATION

Self-correction

VERIFICATION

Humans + shoe leather + coffee

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VERIFICATION

Technology

• Geotagged?

• Instagram and Twitter account

history

• Compare against Streetview, live

feeds

• Reverse image search to avoid

copycat

• Cross-reference against other

images

EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT

EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT

Social Graph

EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT

Interests

EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT

Location

EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT

Context and thresholds

EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT

Judgment

EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT

Opinion

@breakingnews

BreakingNews.com

• Let people specify interests• Use the mobile device as a utility• Show different information in different contexts• Use people to do what people are good at

BreakingNews.app

BreakingNews.you

EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT