Introducing the Fresco News app for Apple TV

Posted January 26, 2016
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One of Michael's former students, David Dyar, sent us some news this morning about a new app for Apple TV that curates and exhibits great works of video journalism from around the world.

The new app, Fresco News, curates vj work and gives it a platform for distribution.  Journalism is in a state of flux, and with the proliferation of smartphones equipt with broadcast quality cameras, people are producing news on their own without any instruction from a newsroom.

Read the full article here from 9to5 Mac.

 


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