S4E1: Mark Little - from RTÉ to journalism’s digital frontier

Our new season of Irish Stew opens with trailblazing journalist Mark Little, a former RTÉ newscaster working to make sense of social media.Coming from a family where there was a daily scrum over who got the newspaper first,  armed with “premature cynicism” and blessed with an insatiable curiosity for what made the world work, journalism beckoned and after graduating Trinity College he landed a job with RTÉ, Ireland’s national broadcaster.In this episode he shares stories from his “eyewitness to history” vantage point on some of the biggest news stories of his time as RTÉ’s first Washington correspondent and later host of Prime Time. And somehow he found time to write three books.He explains why he switched gears and dove into the uncharted waters at the intersection of global journalism and digital media with his tech startup Storyful, the first social media newswire created out of the need to break the news faster and use social content to add context to reporting.He’d sell Storyful to News Corp about five years later, and after leadership roles at Twitter, he and Áine Kerr founded a new company in Dublin called Kinzen with the mission to protect every online community and public conversation from disinformation campaigns and harmful content. Join us for an entertaining, occasionally sobering, and always engaging tour of the global media world with one of its true pioneers, Mark Little.LinksKinzen Website: https://www.kinzen.comMark Little’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/marklittlenews Kinzen’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/WeAreKinzen LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marklittlenewsWikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Little_(journalist) Books2002 - Book: Turn Left at Greenland - in search of the real America2004 - Book: Zulu Time - When Ireland Went to War2009 - Book: The New AmericaMartin Nutty's Favorite Paid Media SitesPer Mark Little's Seamus Plug - he encourages the support of small/local media which contribute to a rigorous news environment. Some of you might know Martin has a serious news habit, Here is a list of the sites he subscribes to, or supportsNew York TimesWashington PostIrish TimesThe New YorkerThe AtlanticThe GuardianTalking Points MemoWNYC - Local New York National Public Radio AffiliateWNET (Channel 13) - Local New York PBS AffiliateSend us Fan Mail