Author - Chris Potter

Indian women make digital WAVEs

Congratulations to the women of WAVE in India on winning first prize in IJF’s 2011 Digital Heretics journalism award. And thanks to Google for so generously...

democracy after journalism

Watch the video of the panel. The panel took place on 15 April 2011. With the growth of citizen media and the flood of data being put online by governments, do we need...

the monkey that won a pulitzer

Watch the video of the panel. The panel took place on 16 April 2011. A mildly sociopathic Dutch adolescent lauches news on Twitter beating CNN to the mark, Wikileaks...

political campaigning and social media

Watch the video of the panel. The panel took place on 16 April 2011. The web has transformed political news and political campaigning. Powerful yet simple new ways of...

death of the foreign correspondent?

Watch the video of the panel. The panel took place on 14 April 2011. With new technology why do we still need to send reporters to cover stories in foreign countries...

non-profit to the rescue?

Watch the video of the panel. The panel took place on 16 April 2011. From investigative journalism to research, non-profit media plays an ever more significant role in...

(media?) revolution in Tunisia and Egypt

Watch the video of the panel. The panel took place on 16 April 2011. The role of Al Jazeera, the media in general and social media in particular in the recent historical...