MediaHackDay is a hackathon organised by WAN-IFRA, Axel Springer and Storyful, taking place in Berlin on October 5 and 6, just days before the World Publishing Expo 2013. Journalists, designers and developers will be challenged to spin new visions from … Continue reading
At Storyful we deal with data from many different sources. Websites, mobile apps, RSS feeds, APIs, emails, video conferences, voice calls and even printed material. Part of our value is in making sense of all of this and presenting it … Continue reading
Vertical Video Syndrome (VVS) is a fictitious disease that is currently afflicting vast swathes of the web, especially with the uptake of the ‘Ice Bucket Challenge’. If you are a regular consumer of online video, the chances are you have … Continue reading
Ever since the infamous baby-snatching eagle viral video was proven to be a fake, Storyful’s journalists have been nurturing their cynical instincts for spotting hoaxes. The latest in a long series of YouTube videos around this summer’s twerking meme came through … Continue reading
Repetition is rife in the world of social media journalism. If you are trying to discover user-generated content for a story, you can easily end up with 30 or more browser tabs open across YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Weibo, Instagram, Vine, … Continue reading