Barcelona Global Editors Network Hackday
Spanish translation here Global Editors Network (GEN) is an association of newsroom editors from different countries. It is based in Paris and promotes innovation in journalism. This year they have organised a score of Editors Lab Hackdays around the world to develop a journalism project in 48 hours. @conchacatalan had the privilege to participate in the hackday in Barcelona on 13th and 14th March representing the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) together with David da Silva (@dasilvacontin) and Joan Jové (@joanjsTW). The GEN hackday slogan, Hack the newsroom , promotes a change in newsroom routine by way of journalists, programmers and designers working together. That is why most teams competing on hackdays are made of people employed by media. That was not our case. We brought in the spirit of real hackathons: we worked as a team once we got there. From August 2013, hosted by media worldwide, GEN representatives have run hackdays in Buenos Aires ( Clarín ...