Fabrice Florin

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Fabrice Florin


Fabrice Florin is founder and executive director of NewsTrust, a social news network devoted to good journalism. A former journalist and a digital media pioneer at Apple and Macromedia, Florin has developed a wide range of educational, entertainment and software products over the past 30 years. He was recently elected an Ashoka Fellow for his work as social entrepreneur. Check out his online bio.

Blog Posts

This year, we were invited by the Open Society Foundations to organize a local news experiment called NewsTrust Baltimore. The goal of this six-month pilot was to help Baltimore residents find and share good journalism about their community—and to teach … Continue reading →

The Internet has radically changed the way we get our news, introducing new problems for communities like Baltimore: traditional media have reduced their local news coverage, new media startups are struggling to fill in the gaps, and social networks are … Continue reading →