Hacking Journalism
A hackathon to rethink how we create, disseminate, and consume media.
Boston, MA • June 7-8, 2014
A hackathon to rethink how we create, disseminate, and consume media.
Boston, MA • June 7-8, 2014
There is so much opportunity for new products in the media and publishing space, but figuring out what will succeed is no easy task. This hackathon will bring together journalists, developers, and designers to build out ideas to reshape the future of news.
Together, we'll target mobile. Imagine the tools, products, and possibilities for news on mobile devices.
Join the HackathonHacking Journalism will take place on the third floor atrium
of the MIT Media Lab
Bloomberg - 4 Samsung Galaxy Gear watches
Enigma - Oculus Rift Development Kit 2
Twitter - Up to 5 Kindle Paperwhites
Parse.ly - iPad Mini
Best Overall (People's Choice) - Mobile Journalism Kit
Best UX - 5 Supr Wallets
WTF - You'll find out, it's ridiculous.
Sharing stories, ideas, and products that innovate in the space of journalism and tech.
| Time | Saturday 7th | Sunday 8th |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 | Breakfast | Breakfast |
| Continue Hacking | ||
| 10:00 | Welcome Lightning Talks |
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| 11:00 | Pitches, breakout, team building, small idea sessions | |
| 12:00 | ||
| Lunch | Lunch | |
| 1:00 | ||
| Begin Hacking | Hacking Ends | |
| 2:00 | Prepare Presentation | |
| 3:00 | Presentations | |
| 4:00 | ||
| 5:00 | Prizes, Closing | |
| 6:00 | Dinner | |
| 7:00+ | Hacking Continues |
Coming together to encourage your ideas.
Become a Partner
We're pumped to see what you make.
Kawandeep works on new ways to create, remix, and share media at Embedly. Lately, this has led him into newsrooms to build tools for journalists. He is a trustee of the Boston chapter of the Awesome Foundation, and former research fellow at the New England Complex Systems Institute. He helps organize and explore new mediums of expression through Boston Creative Coders.
Matt Carroll is a research scientist at the MIT Media Lab, working in the Center for Civic Media. He is helping students create tools for newsrooms. Before that, he worked at the Boston Globe for 26 years. He was a member of the Spotlight team which won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its investigation in the Catholic priest sexual abuse scandal. He specialized in using data for stories.
Lindsey is a user experience designer and researcher at OHO Interactive. She has a background in art and technology, and co-founded the user experience department at a leading interactive agency in Boston. Previously a user experience lead at Zeega, she designed the experience and managed the digital production for 8 national public media projects which resulted in awards from Society of Professional Journalism, Online News Association, Radio Television Digital News Association and Webby Awards.
Zachary Davis is a fellow at HarvardX where he focuses on building open online courses in the humanities. He is also the co-founder of Folio, a startup working to transform academic publishing. Previously at the metaLAB (at) Harvard and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Zachary is a graduate of Brigham Young University, where he majored in International Relations and Philosophy. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Ariel Zirulnick is the Middle East editor at The Christian Science Monitor, overseeing coverage across North Africa, the Levant, and the Persian Gulf since 2012. She is a 2010 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s journalism school and has previously written for The Jerusalem Post, Atlantic Media, the Knight Foundation-backed News21, and The Daily Tar Heel.
Feel free to send a message if you have any questions or are interested in sponsoring.
kawandeep[at]embed.ly
