The document discusses how the internet is changing news media and crowd-sourcing information. It notes that the internet allows information to spread much more quickly to millions of people, with some key events being reported on social media even before reaching news organizations. It suggests that the future of media involves real-time and social aspects, with anyone able to create and spread content easily online. The collective wisdom of crowds online also allows breaking news to spread from eyewitnesses on the ground.

1. Future of media and crowd-sourcing news How is internet changing the way we obtain and spread news Aditya Rao http://adityarao.name @adityarao310 Co-founder and Chief Troublemaker @

3. No tools required for consumption

5. Reached millions between 1900s – 1980s

7. More engaging

9. Let’s travel back in history a bit To truly understand future of media, let’s look into our past

11. Living in small tribes

14. It gets us closer to true human traits

16. The size of my tribe has increased

17. I can connect with my tribe in seconds

19. New model Source Source Comments on story Journalist Follow up story Source Source

20. How is it changing the business? ! Anyone can create content

22. The collective wisdom of the crowd ! Everyone is a journalist

25. Earthquake 60 miles off the Twitter headquarters in SF

26. Topic ‘earthquake’ trends on internal dashboard 5 seconds before the shock waves reach SF

28. Journalists on Twitter

29. The burning Carlton Towers

30. MSNBC buys a Twitter account for 1M $

31. CNBC takes feedback from Twitter: Saves cost

32. Citizen Journalism websites

33. Weird stuff: Ijustmadelove.com

34. Is the internet your enemy? ! Nope

36. Find breaking news from this collective wisdom

38. A multimedia storyteller

39. A community builder

41. What is the future of media? ! Real time + social

43. More real time platforms > Twitter

44. More location based services > Mobile