Interesting presentation of Thoora at the CAJ Innovate. Thoora is a platform that aims to analyse, filter and aggregate content from news sources, blogs and Twitter and turn it into meaningful data. The platform is pitched as a solution for newsrooms to make sense of the wealth of content in social media and find meaningful ways of integrating it with traditional media sources. The aim is to reduce huge amounts

The slides from my presentation at the CAJ Innovate conference in Toronto on social media principles and practice. Ann Hui, an intern at the Toronto Star, blogged the talk

The Canadian Association of Journalists is holding a one-day conference in Toronto on Saturday 30 January on the theme of innovating the news. The aim is to learn about “emerging techniques, technologies and models to transform journalism for the 21st century”. There is a great line-up and I’m honoured to have been asked to participate. I’ll be holding a session on social media principles and practice, which is a lot