Idea Lab

Fresh from SXSWi: 6 Ways to Integrate Hacking in Newsrooms

by Nathaniel James

Going over my notes from the South by Southwest Interactive Festival, the panel that was definitely the most valuable to my work on the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership was Hacking the News: Applying Computer Science to Journalism. What we're doing The Knight-Mozilla Partnership will be embedding 15 techie fellows within news organizations for a year of news hacking. We want to build really useful new open web technologies for the whole field of journalism. We'll recognize success when journalists at newsrooms all over the world use the stuff we build. While we're getting a wonderful response to the partnership,...

• March 17, 2011
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Knight, Mozilla Partner to Boost Tech-Journalism Collaboration

by Nathaniel James

I'm excited to announce the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership, a Mozilla Drumbeat project supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's Journalism Program. For the next three years, we will have the opportunity to engage a huge community, bring people together for trainings and in-person events, and ultimately build software and thought leadership to address the challenges that news organizations are facing today. We'll be working with some amazing news partners: BBC, Boston.com, The Guardian, and Zeit Online, who are launching the partnership with us, and many more who we will invite to join the initiative. If you're...

• February 8, 2011
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