Panel: Blockchain technology: what is it and why should journalists care?

1. A BLOCKCHAINPLATFORMFOR TRUSTED NEWS APPLICATIONS
NEWSBLOCKS
MarkDevlin, CEO
mark@newsblocks.io
newsblocks.io

2. NEWSBLOCKS
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WHAT DO ROBOT JOURNALISTS EAT?

3. NEWSBLOCKS
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DATA!

4. NEWSBLOCKS
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THE INTERNET IS NOT PAPER
Newspaper articles were designed
for the paper age, not the digital
age of instant data.
What ifwe extract the data from
all the world’snewsarticles, past
and present?

5. NEWSBLOCKS
NEWS IS DATA
USE ML TO
CONVERT
NEWS TO
DATA
VERIFY ON
BLOCKCHAIN
STORE ON
DISTRIBUTED
NETWORK
APP DATA
MARKETPLACE
APP APP
NewslinesApp
Remove repetition, bias Tamper-proof
Permanent
Censorship-resistant
Every piece of
news ispriced
Record ofreporting
Attribution
Data and
relationships

6. NEWSBLOCKS
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ANYONE CAN USE DATA TO BUILD…
Any kind of news application
 Robot articles
 Trusted newsfeeds
 Automated factcheckers &fake news detectors
 And more…

7. NEWSBLOCKS
 NewsBlocks-powered interactive
newstimelines
 A“Wikipedia for News”
 100 million views on Facebook
 Can become one ofthe world’s
largest newssites
NewslinesAPPLICATION

8. A BLOCKCHAINPLATFORMFOR TRUSTED NEWS APPLICATIONS
NEWSBLOCKS
MarkDevlin, CEO
mark@newsblocks.io
newsblocks.io