With the rise of automation in journalism, we have seen that automated tools can be used to write texts from structured information. But what about fact checking itself? We've seen a few high-profil...
Douglas Arellanes
Douglas Arellanes is co-founder and director of innovation at Sourcefabric, a Czech nonprofit institute providing open source technology solutions for news media. He is an American expatriate who has lived in the Czech Republic since 1992. Previous roles have included new media consultant for the Media Development Loan Fund, special projects director at Contactel (a subsidiary of TeleDanmark), and co-founder of First Tuesday Praha, an organisation devoted to helping internet start-ups. Doug is a member of the board of Huridocs, a Geneva-based NGO serving human rights organisations, and DJs Saturday mornings on Prague's Radio 1.
Superdesk is a new story-driven platform for newsrooms that handles news creation, production, curation, distribution and publishing end-to-end. More (and different) than a CMS, Superdesk is open so...
Live coverage of breaking news is now common for media organisations, with many of them running several live blogs simultaneously which is changing classical storytelling. New live blogging tools ar...
Future12: your idea in 12 minutes This year the festival inaugurates a session dedicated to start-ups. Future12 is an opportunity to present new projects in the fields of social media, digital new...