Envisioning the Future of News: Launching the AI-Driven Journalism Startups of 2030
How journalists imagined the newsroom of 2030 at the Hacks/Hackers AI workshop at ONA 2024.
Hackathons
AI/Journalism Hackathon at UC Berkeley: Harnessing AI to Enhance Trust and Deepen Engagement in Local Communities
How can AI be leveraged to enhance trust and boost media engagement within local communities?
AI Hackathon for Equity: Tackling Harmful Bias in the Information Ecosystem (Baltimore)
Join Hacks/Hackers, The Real News Network and Baltimore Beat for a hackathon, "AI for Equity: Tackling Harmful Bias in the Information Ecosystem."
Highlights from AI x Journalism House at SXSW 2024
By Burt Herman / March 20, 2024
What will an AI-influenced information ecosystem look like in five years?
What will an AI-influenced information ecosystem look like in five years, and how can journalism as a discipline better work with large language models and other powerful technologies? What role should journalism play
Building tools for journalism and civic information by prototyping with open source AI
By Burt Herman / April 17, 2024
Updates from the open source AI hackathon
More than 100 journalists, coders, and product designers spent a weekend together in New York earlier in April to participate in the first of a series of hackathons convened designed to push the limits of the technology
Hackathon Tips
After 15 years of running hackathons, here are some of our advice and best practices:
Decisions, Decisions!
* Pick a theme. Mobile, New York City, geolocation? The more narrow a theme, the smaller a crowd you will likely attract. But you might be okay with that, because they will be focused.