Inside Source #5: Mediafabric Conference Special by Sourcefabric

Mediafabric, a one day conference on news media, will take place on October 21st 2011 in Prague. Speakers include former MI5-agent Annie Machon, Nepali Times founder Kunda Dixit and Leo Prieto, founder of the most popular Spanish-speaking blog in the world.

http://conference.sourcefabric.org

With ten presentations taking the form of "visual essays", the conference aims to return to the roots of journalism with concise focuses on the what, who, why, when and where of contemporary news media.

Speakers include Annie Machon, who was an intelligence officer for MI5 in the 1990s before leaving to become a media sensation with her whistleblowing. Mariano Blejman has built software to automatically extract data from the crime documents of Argentina's last military dictatorship. Kunda Dixit is one of Nepal's leading journalists and editors (founder editor of Nepali Times) and an international authority on the press in Asia. Leo Prieto pioneered the web design industry in Chile and is the founder of FayerWayer, the most popular blog in the Spanish-speaking world.