A CONVERSATION WITH MARK LITTLE


OUTCOMES

  • A New Ethics Course

    Mark helped lead a faculty discussion on developing an ethics course for journalism and media in the social era. The SLOs | The Report

  • Using ‘Eyewitness Media’

    Mark met with students from our Innovation News Center to develop a charter for how user generated content is used in our coverage. Coming Soon…

  • Mark’s Schedule

    Mark spent a whirlwind two days in our classes and with our faculty and students. Download a copy of his schedule here.

ABOUT THE INNOVATOR
Mark Little is the founder of Storyful, the world’s first social media news agency.  He leads a team of journalists and technologists who discover and verify the most compelling content on platforms like YouTube and Twitter. His company works with the biggest news organizations and social networks in the world, including YouTube, ABC News and the New York Times. The company was acquired by News Corp in December 2013, and entered an agreement with Facebook to power the FB Newswire earlier this year. Mark has more than two decades of experience in journalism. He was an award-winning foreign correspondent for the Irish national TV station RTE. He also presented the network’s top-rated current affairs programme, Prime Time, and was its first Washington correspondent. Mark was educated at Trinity College Dublin and Dublin City University. He is married and has three children.



IMAGES FROM THE VISIT

Photos by Steve Johnson