HackThePress Hackathon #2

HackThePress.org

<P>News is broken.<BR></P>
<P>The current system of  monetisation (advertising) dis-incentivises good quality journalism in favour of clickbait and sensationalism.</P>
<P>News organisations have historically existed to solve distribution (printing  presses) and monetisation/marketing (town criers) problems, these are  problems the internet has solved in a much more scalable way.</P>
<P>It’s time Journalism, and by extension society, got a new model - one that uses technology to make high quality journalism sustainable again.</P>
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<P>The first HackThePress Hackathon in September 2019 was a huge success, you can read more about it here: <A HREF="https://hackthepress.org/write-up-hackthepress-hackathon/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://hackthepress.org/write-up-hackthepress-hackathon/</A></P>
<P><BR>For the second HTP Hackathon we’ll be back <STRONG>at Newspeak House on Jan 18-19th.</STRONG><BR>The core themes we’ll be exploring are:<BR>- Monetisation - How can news organisations monetise differently?<BR>- Public Advice - How can news orgs help people make better decisions?<BR>- Follow-through - How can news pieces inspire real change?<BR><BR>We will have a judging panel of 4 people from the tech and news industry who will select a winner in each of the three themes above.<BR></P>
<P>For more information, see <A HREF="https://hackthepress.org/2020-hackathon-jan/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://hackthepress.org/2020-hackathon-jan/</A></P>
<P>Slack workspace: <A HREF="https://bit.ly/HTPSlack" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://bit.ly/HTPSlack</A></P>
<H2>What is a "Hackathon"?</H2>
<P>If you're new to Hackathons, take a look at this: <A HREF="https://hackathon.guide/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://hackathon.guide/</A></P>
<H2>Who can come?</H2>
<P>Everyone is welcome, as long as they follow our <A HREF="https://hackcodeofconduct.org/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">code-of-conduct</A> and have signed up on <A HREF="https://hackthepress.eventbrite.co.uk" TARGET="_blank">Eventbrite</A>.<BR>Beginners are welcome! Attendees have a huge range of skill-sets, so you'll have no problem finding someone to learn from.</P>
<H2>Mentors</H2>
<P>We have experts from three different fields (developers, journalists, researchers) to help you improve and build your ideas.</P>
<H3><STRONG>Lucie-Aimée Kaffee</STRONG> <A HREF="https://twitter.com/frimelle" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">@frimelle</A> - <A HREF="https://luciekaffee.github.io/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://luciekaffee.github.io/</A></H3>
<P>Lucie-Aimée Kaffee is a final year PhD student at the University of Southampton in the Web and Internet Science (WAIS) research group and research associate at TIB Hanover, Germany in the Scientific Data Management Group. Her research focus is on supporting under-resourced languages on Wikidata and Wikipedia. She has published on the multilinguality in the web of data in general and Wikidata in particular, and on combining neural text generation and Wikidata information to create Wikipedia articles with a focus on the human perception of neural text generation.</P>
<H3>Rula Awad<BR></H3>
<P>Rula is a Machine Learning specialist, she has worked on automatic credibility scoring.</P>
<H3>Sam Stephenson</H3>
<P>Sam is an expert UX/UI designer, who can help your team design and build your project, stripping out anything that's not needed for the demo.</P>
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<H2>Location & Agenda</H2>
<P>We will be hosted by the amazing <A HREF="https://nwspk.com/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><STRONG>Newspeak House</STRONG></A> in London from <STRONG>18-19th January</STRONG> 2020</P>
<H2>Code of Conduct</H2>
<P>For the detailed code of conduct: <A HREF="https://hackcodeofconduct.org/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://hackcodeofconduct.org/</A><BR>TL;DR: Be nice</P>
<H2>Contact</H2>
<P>Get in touch with contact@hackthepress.org</P>
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