News and social networks

I look forward to seeing this new development, which sounds exciting [News and the Twitter-ization of Reuters]. Yes, a “river of news” is quite Reuters, but uncurated? Hardly. From what I observe, being trustworthy and authoritative is far from valueless. By the way, the Reuters Institute in Oxford organises great talks on media trends. Last week John Micklethwaite, Editor of The Economist, this week Hugo Dixon of Reuters Breaking Views. ■