World News Media Congress panel
Mark participates in a panel on news innovation at the World News Media Congress in Glasgow. The other participants included Frédéric Sitterlé, Director of Development at Groupe Challenges, which is creating news products for use in Renault cars, Kourtney Bitterly, R&D Lead at the New York Times, who talked about the company’s research into Smart Speakers, and Robyn Spector, Director of Corporate Strategy and Development at the Associated Press (AP), who talked about giving AI tools to journalists.
Mark talks about using blockchain to price news data:
At the moment, there’s so much discussion about subscription models, and how much can we get people to pay for news. But nobody really knows the real cost of a piece of news.
And the challenges facing startups:
It seems companies really want to pick the winner. News organisations would rather wait and see if something succeeds. But how can something succeed if they haven’t been funded from beginning?
News Rewired talk
Mark presents NewsBlocks at News Rewired, a conference at Thomson Reuters HQ in London, that promotes trends in journalism technology. Mark discusses the use of blockchain technology to create a verified, permanent and priced “store of news value” for all the world’s news.
A tour round the Metropolis office
MX TV’s World in Tokyo program gives viewers a tour of the Tokyo Classified office. Mark:
All these ads came from the readers, so the readers made the magazine bigger and bigger.
About Japan Today:
We want to really promote the idea that foreigners and Japanese people can come together and start to talk about things and make better communication.
Mary on The Holiday Program
Mary takes Claudia Winkelman on a tour around Tokyo, eating sushi, playing Dance Dance Revolution and singing karaoke.