Over the past 10 days, the world has been made to stand up and take notice of a student-led civil disobedience campaign in Hong Kong. Beijing’s decision to reject calls for open nominations for the election of Hong Kong’s chief … Continue reading
A staggering 2.6 million tweets were sent about the Scottish Referendum from 7am on Thursday until 7am this morning (Friday September 19), according to Twitter analysis. The volume of activity on social followed an intensive and sophisticated social media campaign … Continue reading
Polling day in the Scottish referendum has today inspired a huge amount of trending content; from arguing spouses to 11th hour repaints and the history of the country in six seconds. The insatiable appetite for conversation around #indyref, documented in … Continue reading
The Acts of Union of 1706 and 1707, which joined England and Scotland, contain almost 20,000 words between them, or 114,000 characters. It would come as a great surprise to their authors, then, that much of the discourse around a … Continue reading
I’m tired of hearing about it. You’re tired of hearing about it. Many in the news tired quickly of reporting it. Finally, it seems to have exited the news cycle. It was The Ice Bucket Challenge – a fundraising gimmick created … Continue reading
Storyful recently launched a new Newswire to some of the biggest newsrooms around the world. Today, Chief of Product Adam Thomas (@datatheism) outlines what’s new. Modern news is evolving. Journalists need to find news fast. They need to find a … Continue reading
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