Why Your Newsroom Should Hold a Hackathon -- And How To Pull It Off
Hackathon (n.): “an event when programmers meet to do collaborative computer programming.” In a newsroom, the definition is a little different: an event where engineers, designers, editors, reporters and producers combine their various backgrounds to quickly create much-needed story-telling tools.
I would know. I just participated in a hackathon this week at my news organization and it was wildly successful — a quick change of pace for the normally process-heavy development workflow of a newspaper.
Why a hackathon
Newsrooms (most of them, by my count) aren’t agile.
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