Jason D. Rowley

Tag: News Curation

News’s Future Formats Favor Fortunate Incumbents

Aug 5, 2018

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Jason D. Rowley

in Blog

As a somewhat accidental member of the industry, I spend a fair bit of time thinking about media. It’s for this reason I was so happy to come upon a two-part series from Tristan Ferne of the BBC’s research and development group. Part 1 of the “Beyond 800 words” series, published back in September 2017, opens…
Social News Curator Newsle The Most Promising Web Startup at 2011 Kairos SummitStartup

Mar 1, 2011

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Jason D. Rowley

in The Halcyon Days

Here’s an excerpt from my most recent post for Flyover Geeks. Check it out here. The most promising new web startup featured at the Kairos Summit, Newsle, is a social news-curation tool built by a couple of whip-smart Harvard sophomores, Axel Hansen and Jonah Varon. Newsle has been featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education and TechCrunch, and…