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Title:

Web Development at Newsroom Speed

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Organizer:
Andrei Scheinkman, The New York Times
Description:
In the past year, newspapers including The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune and the LA Times have added developers to their newsroom to create data-driven interactive web applications in response to news events. Panelists tell the story of developers and journalists taking a web application from conception to production in time for breaking news.
Questions
Answered:
  1. Why do newspapers develop web applications?
  2. What can web applications do that print stories, blogs and multimedia features can't?
  3. What are the best examples of interactive web applications newspapers have published?
  4. What kind of background and experience do newsroom-based web developers have?
  5. What's the relationship between traditional newsroom staff (writers, editors) and web developers?
  6. What kind of processes do newsroom-based developers use to create web applications in a matter of days?
  7. What languages and frameworks and do newsroom developers use to turn around applications quickly?
  8. What sort of infrastructure (cloud computing, etc.) do newsroom developers use to quickly deliver massively scalable apps?
  9. What's the connection between interactive web applications, print stories and other web content on newspaper websites?
  10. How do these applications help newspapers be part of and interact with the rest of the web?
Level:
Advanced
Category:
Back-End Programming / Databases, Case Study, Journalism 2.0
Type:
Panel
Event:
Interactive 2010
Daniel Honigman
on 17/8/09
Databases, stats and numbers all help tell reporters tell a better story. With the web, newsrooms are able to create digital resources that help a wide-variety of people.

Newsrooms are getting hip to the fact they need more developers on board, so they're hiring them. If you run a news organization, you should too.

This will be a great panel, I'm sure!
Ilya Grigorik
on 17/8/09
+1. Love it.
Cindy Royal
on 2/9/09
This is a very important panel. I had the opportunity to meet Andrei at SXSW 09 and then visit with his team at NY Times in June. They are doing the most important work in journalism. More understanding of their processes and skills is critical. As a journalism educator, I seek to push my program in this direction.
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on 13/11/09
I'd be super into learning from Kris. Dig it!
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