1. VELOCITY IS THE NEWS AND
MOBILE IS THE NEW FRONTIER
Peter Verweij
School of Journalism, Utrecht, the
Netherlands
Moscow, November 11-14, 2010

2. No News
NIEUWSFABRIEK (05-07-1996): Afl. 1: Wegens mist geen buitenlands nieuws

3. From movie to worldwide video broadcast
NIEUWSFABRIEK (05-07-1996): Afl. 1: Wegens mist geen buitenlands nieuws

4. First Newspaper

5. Electric Telegraph

6. Plane Crash

7. Grahamstown South Africa

8. Mobile connection 1

9. Mobile connections 2

10. Wireless carrier-pigeons
• Smart phones are becoming the new medium
to retrieve news
• And a tool for mobile reporting
• And could create new business models for
newspaper

11. Flat Earth News
http://www.humedia.nl/profiles/blogs/nick-davies-over

12. Twitter as a News Source
• Live Reporting
• Fast breaking news
• Alert system
• Problem: credibility
• Wisdom of the crowds

13. Twitter Networks: Politician and Journalists

14. Professionalism
• Fast and slow news
• From closed to open media
• From we-media to me-media
• From institution based journalism to network
journalism
• Individualism and the Public Sphere
• Cooperation between new and old media

15. Thank you very much!
• peter.verweij@hu.nl