- -: 10 Myths About Blogs - Scott Rosenberg
August 7, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/29/Scott_Rosenberg_Say_Everything_How_Blogging_Began Scott Rosenberg, Salon co-founder and author of Say Everything, gives his list of the top 10 myths about blogging. "I will boil down to you to fewer syllables than a haiku: some bloggers are doing jour...
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- -: Is Twitter a Reliable Source for News? - Andrew Sullivan
August 19, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/01/Tweeting_The_Revolution Jeffrey Goldberg and Andrew Sullivan discuss the reliability of Twitter postings as a source for news of events in Iran. Sullivan takes them as true, first-person accounts on the ground while Goldberg defends the necessity of a...
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- -: Presenting Spot.Us - Open Sourced Community Reporting
September 16, 2009 (over 14 years ago)David Cohn discusses the importance of journalism and presents his website Spot.Us, an open source project to pioneer "community funded reporting." For more programs from the Tides: Momentum Conference, visit: http://fora.tv/partner/Momentum David Cohn is the founder of Spot.Us, an open source ...
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- -: How to Get Wall Street Insiders to Tell All - Andrew Ross Sorkin
November 13, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/11/02/Too_Big_to_Fail_The_Inside_Story_of_a_Crisis Andrew Ross Sorkin of The New York Times explains the research methods behind his book Too Big to Fail, which reconstructs pivotal moments of Wall Street's financial crisis. Sorkin interviewed over 200 indu...
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- -: Social Media Frees 'Democracy Now!' from Arrest - Amy Goodman
December 2, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/11/15/Amy_Goodman__Denis_Moynihan_Breaking_the_Sound_Barrier "Democracy is a messy thing," says Amy Goodman. The Democracy Now! host revisits her controversial arrest while covering a protest at the 2008 RNC. She praises social media sites like YouTube and ...
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- -: Are News Anchors Obsolete?
December 8, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/11/19/Paley_Center_IC2009_-The_Future_of_News_Worldwide A panel of media experts discuss the relevance of TV news anchors in the digital age. While some argue that news anchors create a degree of trust, others suggest that social networking sites like Twitt...
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- -: War 2.0: Micro Reporting from the Front Lines in Gaza
December 10, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/23/The_Arab_Social_Web Moeed Ahmad, Head of New Media for the Al Jazeera Network, discusses the importance of Twitter and other social media coverage during the Gaza War, which he calls "War 2.0." ----- In the past few years, the Arab world has witness...
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- -: Sports, Sex, Scandals, Weather: How News Media Competes
December 24, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/v/c11190 A panel of experts discusses the benefits and challenges of increased competition in the world of news media. While journalist Christine Ockrent argues that competition decreases quality as well as profitability, others contend that it has allowed news ...
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- -: Signal-to-Noise Ratio: Finding Context in Iranian Tweets
January 4, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/11/05/Twitter_and_the_Iranian_Democracy_Uprising Protesters in Iran have been leveraging social media to broadcast their plight since sharp dissent erupted back in June 2009 after the disputed re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In this clip, Al Jazeera's R...
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- -: Can Palin Learn From Princess Di? - Tina Brown
January 29, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/13/Tina_Brown_The_Diana_Chronicles Tina Brown compares intellectual insecurities in the personalities of Princess Diana and Sarah Palin. Brown sees an opportunity for Palin to demonstrate her emotional intelligence by campaigning for special needs childr...
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