Cory Bergman (corybe.com and @corybe) is co-founder of Factal, the breaking news and risk intelligence company trusted by the world’s largest corporations (paid) and NGOs (free). Factal helps organizations protect people, avoid disruptions, expedite disaster relief and drive automation in the face of critical events.Cory co-founded and led Breaking News, the first real-time news verification company. The team won ONA's top technology award for journalism (2016).Earlier at msnbc.com (now NBCNews.com), he managed the site’s first relationships and strategy with Facebook and Twitter as part of his role as director of new product development (2009-2011). He helped acquire and relaunch the hyperlocal site EveryBlock.com as a neighborhood community. He also worked as director of business development (2008-2009).Cory worked as an assignment editor and field producer at NBC News, both in staff and freelance roles. He was a coordinating producer at Ground Zero for several weeks in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.Cory founded the TV industry site Lost Remote back in 1999 — one of the first blogs on the web. Recognizing the emerging potential of social TV in 2010, he focused the site to exclusively cover the new space. With social TV exploding in popularity two years later, he sold Lost Remote to Mediabistro. The site is now owned by AdWeek.Along with his wife Kate, Cory co-founded Next Door Media, a network of 10 neighborhood news sites in Seattle. The network includes My Ballard, which won a 2009 Online Journalism Award for community collaboration. It also includes PhinneyWood, which won a national Society of Professional Journalists award in 2010 for deadline reporting.