Building leadership in the journalism code community
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OpenNews documents concrete steps for growing newsroom coding: DocumentCloud spawned Backbone and Underscore, Django began in a newsroom, and dozens of funded hack days produce visible projects like a disputed-areas Google Maps viewer. A crowdsourced tool transcribable (Free the Files) extracts ad data from PDFs with volunteers (top contributor reviews 33,000 files), Buenos Aires grows a 3,000+ chapter and HackDash, and the fellowship sees a 62% applicant increase and rising gender diversity.
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chapters (25)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:40navel gazing
- 1:13the future of journalism
- 1:46the New York Times
- 2:32Document Cloud
- 3:22Django
- 4:00Map of Disputed Territories
- 4:51Knight News Challenge
- 6:43Hack Day
- 7:22Connecting with local communities
- 9:10Hack Days
- 11:14Source
- 12:39Chris Keller
- 13:52Hacks Buenos Aires
- 14:45Pipeline of involvement
- 18:04Free the Files
- 22:07Transcriber Bowl
- 24:14Night Missoula Fellowship
- 25:56New map of applicants
- 27:33Relationships
- 29:44Be specific
- 30:31Ask a lot
- 31:49Diversity at conferences
- 33:47Learning from each other
- 41:17Get in touch
