On Innovation

The future of news. Right now.

March 12, 2011

By Whitney Shefte, Video Journalist, @whitneyshefte

It’s no secret many news staffs have had to slash budgets that once stationed foreign correspondents all over the world to do ground-level reporting as global news unfolded. With this thinning of the front lines, how do news outlets continue to provide depth and breadth in their non-local coverage?

“How do you get information, how do you verify information, how do you leverage these extraordinary communication tools we have? And not just e-mail and Facebook and Twitter but also the countless other new ones that are coming aboard: data journalism, data crunching - how can you leverage these, these communities, these networks, to give you a kind of depth of information you never had before?” said Turi Munthe, founder and CEO of Demotix.

Munthe says Demotix, a company he started in 2009, has the answer to these questions. Munthe’s brainchild builds networks of community journalists around the world who bring their local reporting to Demtoix’s platform for global distribution. Watch Munthe explain more about what Demotix does and why he thinks they are the future of journalism.