Speakers Markham Nolan: Journalist
The managing editor of Storyful.com, Markham Nolan has watched journalism evolve from the pursuit of finding facts to the act of verifying those floating in the ether.
Why you should listen to him:
Markham calls himself a "literary mercenary." His main responsibility is to sift through news and information to see what's true and what's not. In the era of the ubiquitous and immediate cell phone photo, Twitter message and YouTube video, how do we verify and validate a piece of information arriving, say, from a region at war or one going through a natural disaster? As the managing editor of Storyful, that's a question he has to answer daily.
"Their mission is to 'pull the news from the noise.' They have built up reliable communities in a range of countries, so that when news breaks, they have contacts they can call on to help verify locally-originated social media content."Currybet.com
Quotes by Markham Nolan
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“Truth is emotional, it's fluid, and above all, it's human. No matter how quick we get with computers, no matter how much information we have, you'll never be able to remove the human from the truth-seeking exercise.”
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“Algorithms are rules; they're binary. [But] truth is never binary. Truth is a value.”
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“Twitter is where most journalists now go. It's like the de facto real-time newswire.”
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“The job of the journalist [during Hurricane Sandy] was filtering. … Instead of going and finding the information and bringing it back to the reader, you were holding back the stuff that was potentially damaging.”
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Markham Nolan: How to separate fact and fiction online
- 13:29 Posted: Dec 2012
Markham Nolan on the Web
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Conferences
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- TEDSalon London Fall 2012