Lecture date: 2011-11-17

Demotix is a picture and video newswire where the news is ‘supplied by you’. A community of over 25,000 users, and 4500 active photo and video journalists in every corner of the globe cover stories as they occur. Demotix acts as an interface between this community and the mainstream press, at a time where international news bureaus are fast disappearing.

Founder Turi Munthe will speak to Shumon Basar about the structural challenges facing news media, and in particular, how the Arab Spring has both exposed and embraced these changes.

Turi Munthe is CEO and Founder of Demotix. He has been a publisher, editor, political analyst, lecturer, journalist and talking head. He has written for many of the world’s leading English-language newspapers, appeared on CNN, BBC, NBC, al-Jazeera, Asahi, and Reuters. He is the author of the Saddam Hussein Reader.

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