Based on the number of job postings we are hearing about at Hacks/Hackers meetups, we are trying to compile a newsletter of jobs at the intersection of journalism x technology. The email may be frequent or sporadic depending on jobs volume. It may or may not be targeted. Have a job opening you want to promote? A CTO for a startup perhaps? Or a copyediting job at a blog? Send job descriptions to jobs[at]hackshackers[dot]com.
Come to the Awesomest Journalism Party. Ever. Which returns again. RSVP here. Where Journalism x Technology @SXSW R.S.V.P. Saturday, March 10, 5-8 p.m. The Palm Door 401 Sabine St, Austin, Texas 78701 Organized by Hacks/Hackers Platinum Sponsors The Huffington Post, Webbmedia Group and MailChimp. Gold Sponsors The New York Times and SoundCloud Silver Sponsor NewsCred With Support From Online News Association, The John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford, NPR, The Association of Alternative Newsmedia, The Paley Center for Media”, The Atavist and The Society for News Design.
Mozilla, Knight Foundation, Hacks/Hackers London and The Guardian hosted a brainstorming session in London on May 28, as part of the Mozilla Journalism (#MoJo) initiative. (For more information, follow @KnightMozilla on Twitter). I have been to a lot of journalism-technology brainstorming sessions in the last few years, but I have to say this was one of the best executed I have ever been to. A lot of people have asked me why that is.
Do you have ideas for how news and journalism can be edgier, cooler, and more interactive online? Are you a web developer? A designer? A news junkie with a hankering to hack? If so, join Mozilla, Knight Foundation, Hacks/Hackers London & The Guardian, on May 28 in London for an all-day brainstorm and design jam about the future of journalism online. Qualify directly for a yearlong paid fellowship at the Guardian, the BBC and other major news outlets by entering your idea during the jam.
How often have you thought, there’s got to be a better way to do comments? On May 26, do something about it. Join Hacks/Hackers NYC for an idea-generating session focused on creating more dynamic spaces for online news discussion with NYU’s Clay Shirky, ProPublica’s Amanda Michel, and Ro Gupta of Disqus. Thursday, May 26, 2011 6:30 p.m. [NYU, Tisch School for the Arts ]2 721 Broadway New York, NY What makes news valuable in the public sphere is the ability to share and talk about it.
Julian Burgess‘s game, Whose Headline, won the News+Gaming Hackathon held at CUNY Journalism school over April 22 and 23 in New York City. The game presents headlines drawn from various publications, using RSS feeds, and asks the players to identify which publication it comes from. The original publications included The New York Times, ESPN, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, The New York Daily News, Mashable, and Forbes. Cody Brown also won a prize for suggesting that The Onion‘s satirical headlines be added to the list.
At the Hacks/Hackers NYC News+Gaming Hackathon, BigDoor introduced the basic concepts of gaming economy and their gamification Application Programming Interface (API). Brian Immel and Roy Schmidt, of BigDoor, distilled the essential elements of a game economy. For those who are new to gaming concepts, it helps to think of frequent flier programs as one of the original large scale game economies. Brian and Roy defined some of the key elements of a gaming economy, which are address in some elements of their API.
The Chicago Tribune News Applications team wants to introduce hacks to hackers, thus hosting the April meeting of the Chicago Python Users Group (ChiPy, http://chipy.org) and planning an agenda that should be of crossover interest to journalists and coders alike. Time: Thursday, April 14, 2011 7 pm Place: Tribune Tower, 435 N Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL The main event will be a reprise of Christopher Groskopf‘s PyCon 2011 talk, “Best Practices for Impossible Deadlines,” where he provides a general overview of how the Tribune NewsApps team has developed its methodology for building applications at the speed of news.
Hacks/Hackers Heartland had a lightning talk event on March 24 at the Harper Center of Creighton University in Omaha. Among the presenters: Matt Waite, formerly of St. Petersburg Times and Politifact (now a professor at University of Nebraska), who sees a need for more fundamental hacking. Here is pdf of the slides (light on text, but full of images from the Matrix.) and the video
The line up for the April 5 Demo Day has been announced. You’ll hear from: Toby Murdock, Kapost publishing system Matt Terenzio, Localeaks anonymous news tips Jonathan Hall, SenseCast Kinect-driven news displays Nathan Freitas, The Guardian Project open-source mobile security Larry Adams, Narrative Science data-driven story generator Steven Romalewski and David Burgoon, OASISnyc interactive New York City maps The lightning talks are 5 minutes a piece, with a brief Q&A after each.