Stephen McIntyre, the Managing Director of Twitter EMEA based in Dublin, has announced that he is stepping down to join Frontline VC, a venture capital firm based in Dublin and London, as a partner. He will be replaced at the head of Twitter’s Dublin-based EMEA organisation by Mark Little, the former RTÉ journalist and entrepreneur […]
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Storyful’s Aine Kerr is an Honest Broker for User Generated Content [Audio]
Aine Kerr, Managing Editor of Storyful, is our guest on today’s podcast (15:59; 9MB; MP3). Storyful calls itself “the world’s first social media news agency”. Founded by ex-RTE anchor Mark Little in 2010, it was acquired by News Corp in 2013 and has offices in Dublin, New York and Hong Kong. “When everyone is a publisher […]
NewsCorp Buys Storyful
Storyful, the social news agency founded by former RTE anchor Mark Little, has been bought by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp for €25m. Founded in 2008, Storyful’s team of journalists work to find and verify user generated content of interest to media organisations, and help the owners of the content to monetise it. As the business […]