#newsHACK II - the results are in
Matt Shearer
Innovation Manager
Pitch sessions in Dublin - photo by Youssef Sefiani
Last week, on Thursday and Friday, 22 hack teams gathered in Dublin and Glasgow for #newsHACK II a 2 day News Industry Hack Event. More details of this event are in my .
The event was a collaboration between and , and (as with ) was produced and managed by the .
Dublin venue - photo by Youssef Sefiani
Who took part:
We had teams from these organisations , , Scottish Television (STV), , ,, , , , , , , , , , , , , and .
Glasgow venue - photo by Basile Simon
What happened at the event: The Future of News Curation
The multidiscipline teams made up of Journalists, Developers and Designers brainstormed ideas to address the competition theme: The Future of News Curation.
They then built prototypes, or 鈥渉acks鈥�, to demonstrate their ideas.
主播大秀 News Labs provided a curation tool and a collection of autotagged content from 38 news sources to help hackers build these prototypes; real content, contextualised with linked data tags, and curated , and exposed via APIs. Most of the participating teams used these APIs, along with other content and data sources.
The Prototypes were presented in a pitch session at the end of Friday 2nd May, which was linked live across the 2 venues using (a 主播大秀 R&D product) so that the judges and participants from both venues could see all prototypes.
You can see a .
SKY NEWS team in Dublin - photo by Matt Shearer
The Winners:
1. Best in Show Dublin:
2. Best in Show Glasgow:
3. Winner of 鈥淐onnecting the News鈥� Category:
4. Winner of 鈥淓xplaining the News鈥� Category:
5. Winner of 鈥淭heming the News鈥� Category:
6. Winner of 鈥淭ools for Journalists鈥�: Irish Independent
7. Winner of 鈥淣ewsCrack鈥� award:
8. Winner of 鈥淏est Visually Inspired Hack鈥� award: .
You can see all 22 of the prototype ideas listed .
The Judges:
鈼� , General Manager, 主播大秀 News, Weather & Travel
鈼� 鈥� Chilsholm Publishing Consultancy
鈼� 鈥� Programme Manager #EditorsLab
鈼� Editor, 主播大秀 Online Archive
鈼� 鈥� Executive Director of UCD, innovation Academy
鈼� Michael Satterthwaite 鈥� 主播大秀 News Labs tech advisor (Dublin)
鈼� Iain Collins 鈥� 主播大秀 News Labs tech advisor (Glasgow)
Verbatims from participants since the event:
鈥淓xcellent event. Terrific challenge, great teams with exciting ideas. Organised very well with a top venue.鈥�
鈥淎ccess to play around with 主播大秀 Newslabs/Juicer APIs was useful part for me.鈥�
鈥淸The most useful part was] getting to understand the 主播大秀 and it's data, understanding the news better, and meeting new people.鈥�
鈥淸it was] very positive and now I know 主播大秀 has a lot of interesting tech we could make use of.鈥�
Peter Rippon, one of the Judges, commented:
鈥淚t was exhilarating to see how fast ideas and skills are developing throughout the industry. You could really see the quality of thinking, and sophistication of what can be built, has developed hugely in just six months. I was also struck by how in terms of design, mobile first, then desktop has really taken root鈥�.
Team working in Dublin - photo by Matt Shearer
What happens next:
1. The 2 winning 鈥淏est in Show鈥� teams will be taking part in the
2. We will be looking at the ideas generated at the event by the 主播大秀 teams for working into product development.
3. 主播大秀 News Labs will be collaborating with interested teams on further linked data and News curation innovation.
4. 主播大秀 News Labs will be looking through technical feedback from participants, and will be improving our tools and APIs for future collaboration events.
You can follow 主播大秀 News Labs on and .
Matt Shearer is Innovation Manager, 主播大秀 News Labs