Great news for citizen journalism last week as the power of Twitter and citizen news in Africa was revealed. After the unexpected rejection of BBC journalist Jonah Fisher from a Johannesburg press conference by ANCYL leader Julius Malema, Fisher rallied huge online support from across South Africa about the youth leader’s angry outburst. He tweeted his [...]
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The future’s bright – the future’s Google
October 8th, 2009
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Leafing through today’s Guardian Technology supplement (..it was a long day), I felt a bit like I’d fastforwarded somewhere into the future..
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/oct/07/google-josh-cohen-interview
Here was Google boss Josh Cohen telling us that journalism as we know it is – basically – a thing of the past. The public no longer needs the chain-smoking, brogue-wearing hacks that we all [...]
