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SXSW Interactive: Death to the News-O-Saur, A Toast to the News Ninjas

If you’re over the news-o-saur meme raise your hand.

It’s time to start paying more attention to an emerging vanguard of news ninjas. Surprising as it may seem, we actually think mainstream media can increasingly be counted among that vanguard.

We’re at SXSW 2010 Interactive this weekend in Austin. There are a bunch of great ideas and thinking about how journalism and the web / new media intersect.  We enjoyed a panel on community funded reporting. Particularly intriguing are emerging models that enable in-depth coverage of stories the public wants. The most high-profile example being the recent investigative report on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the New York Times.

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14 March 2010 By Admin

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Tags: sxsw, content farms,

SXSW: Future of News Brightens

We started our day here at SXSW attending a panel in support of our colleague Tim Ruder, entitled “Imagineering the Fully Digitized and Connected Future.”

Organizer Dan Willis had presenters each take two hours of a single day in 2015. Speakers then described their future vision in narrative form with supporting pictures. The presenters had no idea what anyone was going to say in advance, and neither did we. The result was a surprisingly cohesive view of the future, with each presenter offering their own cluster of provocative ideas about how the future would play out. A video and deck will be available and once it is we’ll update this post to include it.

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14 March 2010 By Admin

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Tags: search, journalism, social, sxsw, ugc, jeff jarvis, crowd sourcing, augmented reality, adrian holovaty, dan willis, ivan sutherland, tim ruder, jay rosen,