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Hacking the News: Applying Computer Science to Journalism

Event Interactive 2011
Format Panel
Organizer Burt Herman – Hacks/Hackers
Description Reporters and editors work in ways that are still largely tied to old print and broadcast models. Applying lessons from computer science can help make journalism more scalable, flexible and personalized. This panel will discuss developments such as object-oriented programming, model-view controller frameworks, database-driven Web applications and social code repositories -- and explore how these principles can be applied to journalism and create the future of storytelling. For example, making stories in an object-oriented mindset can help journalists work more efficiently, reusing and building on past work. Stories can be created as structured data that can be mashed up and viewed in more flexible ways by readers. Readers can get personalized stories that highlight what's new to them -- rather than having to read through what they already know to glean the latest news.
Questions
Answered
  1. What lessons from computer science can be applied to journalism, to help make it more scaleable and personalized?
  2. What does using object-oriented principles mean for journalism, and how does the idea of a "story" change?
  3. What can readers expect when the storytelling process is re-engineered?
  4. How can journalists and developers work together to re-engineer the future of journalism?
  5. What opportunities does re-engineering journalism create for structured data, APIs, social integration, etc.?
Level Intermediate
Category Journalism
Tags content, journalism, new technology
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