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Burt Herman

Building the future of trusted media at the intersection of journalism, technology and community

About the Hacks/Hackers site

A few weeks ago, we launched an exciting initiative (in partnership with Google) to support media entrepreneurship, an event series we call Connect. As part of the launch, we decided to replace the main Hacks/Hackers site with an information and signup page for Connect. At the time, that seemed

How Twitter does data journalism: San Francisco Hacks/Hackers goes inside the nest

More than 150 hacks and hackers gathered Wednesday at Twitter’s main headquarters in San Francisco to hear the company’s Data Editor Simon Rogers talk about data’s increasingly important role in journalism and how Twitter makes sense of the hundreds of millions of tweets passing through its platform

Follow the Money: How to fund serious journalism online

The latest Hacks/Hackers event brought together the creator of Pocket and Matter, and a former Wired.com head editor to talk about ways to make money from serious journalism http://storify.com/burtherman/hacks-hackers-sf-follow-the-money

Hacks/Hackers passes 10k members worldwide

Hacks/Hackers has surpassed the 10,000 member mark just two and half years after its start as a Meetup group in the Bay Area. Due to the passion of journalists and technologists like you, we now have groups holding regular events on four continents. And the >10,000

We’re taking Hacks/Hackers to the next level: Applying for the Knight News Challenge

Hacks/Hackers has grown in ways we never predicted. It was just over two years ago that the first event was held at a San Francisco bar. Since then, we’ve expanded across the U.S. and the world, and now have more than 9,500 members in Meetups across

Hacks/Hackers party at SXSW

[View the story “The “Awesomest Journalism Party” Leaves its Marq” on Storify]

Reporting Recipe: Using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk for Data Projects

This is a guest post that also appeared on Oct. 15 on ProPublica’s blog at http://www.propublica.org/article/how-we-use-mechanical-turk-to-do-data-driven-reporting-and-how-you-can-too by Amanda Michel ProPublica Of all of journalism’s recent evolutions, data-driven reporting is one of the most celebrated. But as much as we should toast data’s