TLRH | 'Schuler Democracy Forum Launch: Mark Little on ‘Media for Humanity’'

15th Sep 2021 A lecture by Mark Little to launch the Trinity Long
Room Hub’s Schuler Democracy Forum on the United Nations
International Day of Democracy 2021. Mark Little has spent 30 years
working on the faultline of media, technology and democracy. In
'Media for Humanity - a brief history of the future of journalism',
his inaugural talk as Schuler Democracy Forum Media Fellow, he
looks back on three decades of media disruption and builds the
optimist's case for a new era of purpose-driven journalism. Mark
Little is an entrepreneur, journalist and Trinity College graduate.
He spent 20 years in broadcast news, as a reporter and presenter
for RTE. He was the station's first Washington Correspondent. In
2001, he won the Irish TV Journalist of the Year award for his
reporting from Afghanistan. He was also anchor of the current
affairs programme Prime Time, and wrote three books about US and
world affairs. In 2010, he founded the world's first social news
agency Storyful, which was eventually sold to News Corp. He worked
for Twitter, as Vice President for Media in Europe and Managing
Director of its International Headquarters. In 2017, he co-founded
Kinzen, which combines editorial skills and artificial intelligence
to protect online conversations and communities. Mark also served
on the Future of Media Commission, established by the Irish
government in 2020 to provide a strategy for the future of public
media in Ireland. Schuler Democracy Forum is a new three-year
initiative, funded by Dr Beate Schuler, that engages Trinity's
research in the arts and humanities with questions relating to the
media and democracy. Working with media, enterprise, policymakers
and civil society organisations, the Forum is committed to
transforming research into real-world practice and activity. Learn
more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/