Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Welcome to the Big Data for Media blog

The Big Data for Media blog chronicles the latest trends in Big Data strategies, case studies, technological breakthroughs and advancements in the media industry. We welcome you to send us tips on blog ideas and innovations.

The Big Data for Media blog is created by World Newsmedia Network's Martha Stone, who is a research fellow at the University of Oxford's Reuters Institute, and also is the organiser for the annual Big Data for Media "Harnessing the Power of Big Data"  http://bit.ly/1inK31z conference in London, to be held 8 May 2014 at Microsoft's headquarters in Victoria.

Speakers include:

* Huffington Post CEO Jimmy Maymann
* Top Tesco/Dunnhumby executive
* CNN.com managing director Peter Bale
* Buzzfeed director of data research Ty Harlin
* LBi global director of strategic insight Jonathan Lyon
* BBC head of visual journalism unit Amanda Farnsworth
* Cir.ca CEO Matt Galligan
* Univ of Sheffield data guru Dr. Farida Vis
* Global Editors Network Data Journalism Awards Director Mirko Lorenz

For more information, contact Martha Stone at mstone@wnmn.org


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