Can we bring news to life? Is it even possible to create visual journalism worth the time and effort compared to traditional text-based reporting?
Elliot Bentley, Graphics Editor of The Wall Street Journal - and Benjamin Dalsgaard Hughes, Developer at the Danish Broadcasting Corporation - visits Hacks/Hackers Denmark to show us why and how.
Elliot is flying in from London to talk about:
• Data Journalism at The Wall Street Journal and in the UK press
• Tips and tricks on data visualization
• Best practice (..and perhaps worst..) in creating interactive news solutions
Elliot Bentley’s areas of expertise include news interactives and building tools for reporting. He is the creator of ‘oTranscribe’ and runs ‘Journocoders’.
Talk to Elliot @Elliot_Bentley
Benjamin shares his experiences from working at the DR data journalism desk:
• Working in journalism as a developer. How to - and why bother?
• How journalists, designers and developers can combine powers to create interactive news.
• Behind the scenes on Benjamin’s favorite interactive pieces for DR.
• Get started yourself: The tools you can’t live without. Hint: One of them is ‘Import.io’.
Benjamin Dalsgaard Hughes is a techie gone journo and holds a degree from the Technical University of Denmark. He works with prototype development, user experience, solution sketching, data mining, data visualization, data analysis, front-end and back-end development.
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It's been almost 10 years since Jay Rosen of NYU coined the expression:
"The People Formerly Known As The Audience".
Join us and find out what this interactive perspective on news means in practice.
See you there!
/The Hacks/Hackers Team
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LOCATION UPDATE: Dear all. We are happy to announce that the event on the 30th will take place at Dagbladet Information (Store Kongensgade 40 C).
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