Storyful was founded by journalists who wanted to curate the real-time web. In other words, separate the useful news from the river of noise flowing through channels like Twitter and YouTube. We set out to discover the most authentic sources … Continue reading
I’m currently in Nairobi, Kenya, trying to get closer to a range of stories out here. When I pitched a plan to the Simon Cumbers Media Fund in the spring, I was planning to meet and investigate the work of Map … Continue reading
As a full-time freelance video journalist the key element is the ‘freelance’ factor – for the most part now the international media are looking more towards the fully fledged one stop shop, cross media journo. Of course this is a … Continue reading
It’s Alpha Day Today we’re sending out invitations to join the trial run of the Storyful site. They’re being sent to people who have played a part in the Storyful story over the past few months. We’ve been taken aback … Continue reading
See the entire collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in two minutes. Shot on April 10th 2010. The music for those interested is Mad Rush from Solo Piano by Philip Glass
Stephen Kinsella, Lecturer in Economics, Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick author and futurist sent us this piece on The Age of Curation. He’s kindly let us post it as the first guestpost here on the Storyful blog. The essayist … Continue reading
Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without borders (MSF) sent us this video
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Last Friday, after 20 years of emergency medical aid in Liberia, international organsiationa Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without borders (MSF) officially stopped running its hospitals and handed over responsibility to the Liberian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare. Continue reading
On a recent trip to New York a very good friend of mine introduced me to a project she is involved in called “Play Me I’m Yours”. It is a project that speaks for itself but relates to a subject … Continue reading
Last week I attended Personal Democracy Forum 2010 in New York. The event has been running every year since 2004, and I also went last year to the first European PDF in Barcelona. The group plans another European event in … Continue reading
One of our good Storyful friends, Ruth McAvinia, just got back from the American heartland where she was Continue reading