The key attributes of blockchain technology - decentralized, immutable and trustless - hold promise for a news media environment increasingly controlled by powerful entities. In this session the speak...
Mattias Erkkila
Mattias Erkkilä is a managing editor at Svenska Yle, the Swedish-speaking division of the Finnish public media company Yle. Before joining Svenska Yle in 2012 he worked for technology, media and finance magazines, Computerworld Finland among others. Erkkilä studied blockchain and the possibilities it offers journalism as a visiting fellow at Polis, the journalism think-tank in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics. Here is his January 2019 Polis report entitled What use is Blockchain for journalism?.
In only 8 of 31 European countries can the public find out who the media owners are (Media Pluralism Monitor 2017). And even when the information is available, it often comes at a cost, both in terms ...
