The legacy of Barcamp News Innovation has been a gathering of smart people thinking and working on the future of informing communities in a welcoming, informal and organic way. It’s the spirit of the unconference. That means we’ve long attracted interested people from as far as Vermont, Florida and Washington state and beyond. We know … [Read more…]
This year’s keynote address at Barcamp NewsInnovation will be Amanda Zamora, the senior engagement editor at ProPublica. The past BCNI attendee will share case studies Amanda Zamora is senior engagement editor at ProPublica. Previously, she led The Washington Post’s online election coverage as national digital editor. She first joined the Post in 2003, spending six … [Read more…]
The sixth annual BarCamp NewsInnovation is taking place on Sat. April 26. Register here. Agenda and speaker details to come. This year, we won’t be part of Philly Tech Week, which is happening earlier in the month.
If you missed the ongoing conversation on how to measure impact in journalism that happened during BCNI this April, check out a full video of the session. Watch it below.
A visualized map of police advisory complaints in the City of Philadelphia won the third annual BarCamp NewsInnovation News Hackathon. Seven projects, judged by Temple University Journalism Dept. Chairman Andy Mendelson, Technically Philly reporter Juliana Reyes and Sunlight Foundation’s Bob Lannon: Mapping Police Complaints by Mike Ball [WINNER]— Mike created an interactive map plotting the … [Read more…]