Sign in Sign Up

Latest

Call for Entries: Seattle Hacks/Hackers Demo 2011 on March 29

Have an amazing product that is poised to transform journalism and the way we tell stories? Are you a tech start up hoping to share your million dollar idea with a group of forward thinking technologists and journalists? Developing an innovative plugin? Hacks/Hackers Seattle is organizing its first demo

Awesomest Journalism Party. Ever @ SXSW

Please join Hacks/Hackers, Online News Association, Poynter Institute, Association of Alternative Newsweeklies Vision Cloud, Scribd, Tableau Software and more for a rockin’ party during SXSW. It’s the Awesomest Journalism Party. Ever. Really. And you’re invited for music and fun with some of the most innovative journalists and

Save the Date: Gaming + News Hackathon in NYC on April 22-23, 2011

Save the date! Hacks/Hackers NYC will be hosting a News+Gaming hackathon on April 22 and 23, at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, sponsored by Seattle-based BigDoor, which offers a gamification API. Plans are still coming together. But it looks like we will do a Friday night social event

Mobile, Gawker redesign, and Twitterfication of news at Hacks/Hackers Boston

The future of news is snuggled in your pocket. The number of people reading news on mobile devices is surging, finally fulfilling the future that has been predicted for smartphones over the past few years. Last night, Hacks Hackers Boston held a discussion on the topic “Start the Presses: News

Google Fusion Tables at Hacks/Hackers NYC. Talk + workshop, March 7-8

Google is sending developer relations engineer Kathryn Hurley from the Bay Area to demo how Google Fusion Tables can be used for journalistic purposes. RSVP now for two separate but related events at Pivotal Labs, near Union Square: * Join Hacks/Hackers NYC on March 7 at 6:30 p.m.

Hacks/Hackers NYC: Wikileaks – Data Science & Data Journalism

When WikiLeaks released the Afghanistan and Iraq war logs, news organizations and the public alike sprang into action to understand the documents. The New York Times was instrumental in analyzing and reporting the story in articles, photographs, maps and graphic information. Meanwhile, several local hackers worked on their own data

Hacks/Hackers Austin – Working with Government Data

On Feb. 17, Andrew Dupont of Gowalla discussed his side project, Filibusted.us at the Austin American-Statesman. Andrew’s site collects data on filibusters to better inform people of some of the activities of those who represent them on the Senate floor. He also discussed some sources of government data