Thanks for having me

There are 134,134,653,324 ideas• We can experiment with networked reporting,

new editorial structures, storytelling tools, data base journalism and more.

Why Experiment?

• Rule of the Internet: Cheaper/Easier to try than to debate about trying.

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• Stems from “Agile and Iterative” Fail early, fail often - try again.

Technology Companies are Media Companies

• And they know it.........

Mega-GiantsNew Startups“Social Media”

Technology Companies

Media companies

The future of media

consumption

Path to obscurity

My Current Obsessions •Mobile •Structured Journalism •Engagement in Mobile Setting •Future of TV/Broadcast news !

Old obsessionsCrowdfunding/funding news Networked journalism Transparent process of journalism

THIS FILM HAS BEEN MODIFIED FROM!ITS ORIGINAL VERSION. IT HAS BEEN!

FORMATTED TO FIT YOUR TV——SCREEN

The lines that divide will blur

Social Networking Photo Sharing News

Before Mobile

!Complex

Time wasting Attention hungry

Mobile-First !

Simplified Time Sensitive

Optimized

The best mobile experiences are native

How we consume news

c. 1605-2008 c. Todaye.g. gap time while in line for coffee,

waiting at a subway stop, etc.

Current news apps take an existing format and force it into a smaller screen where readers also have a dramatically shorter

attention span

New York Times iPhone App

The Article as the Unit of Information

Stories as collections of interconnected cards !

As a story develops, we only write/push what’s new !

These stories are long-form, timeshifted

STRUCTURED JOURNALISM

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Don’t Panic This is Good! 1. Your news is intimate in a way never before! 2. Your news impacts a person’s life like never before

Engagement is not just a buzzword

David Cohn!@Digidave!

blog.digidave.org