Hacks/Hackers London: March meetup

We are being hosted by our friends at Wayra (http://uk.wayra.org/), Telefónica's global startup accelerator: @Wayra (https://twitter.com/Wayra)

Speakers

Al Brown, head of video, VICE UK @_AlBrown (https://twitter.com/_AlBrown)

VICE may have started life as a Montreal fanzine, but it has developed into an international media brand.

In addition to publishing a magazine, VICE is now a major player in video journalism, with documentaries such as This Is What Winning Looks Like (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja5Q75hf6QI), about the troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, and films from Inside North Korea (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24R8JObNNQ4).

VICE News launched in December, with journalists now sending dispatches from around the world, including from Ukraine (https://news.vice.com/topics/ukraine), Syria (https://news.vice.com/topics/syria) and Turkey (https://news.vice.com/video/protests-in-turkey-dispatch-two).

Peter Jukes, live tweeting the phone hacking trial, @peterjukes (https://twitter.com/peterjukes)

Peter Jukes found himself in a bind: he had access to live tweet from the trial of News of the World editors and others accused of phone-hacking; but no media organisation to pay for his time.

So he launched a crowdfunding campaign, and raised the money from an audience who wanted to read his tweets.

Several months and thousands of tweets later, he's still going strong.

Lightning round - Three-minute bursts of insight from...

• Anthony Sheehan, Near You Now (http://www.nearyounow.co/).

• Gen Ashley, Open Tech School (http://www.opentechschool.org)

Drinks

The beers are being provided by Shorthand (http://shorthand.com/), an application for making immersive stories. We heard from them at February's event and they have kindly agreed to buy the booze at this meetup.

As always, all are welcome at Hacks/Hackers, a global meetup of journalists and technologists. The only thing we ask is that you sign up to let us know you are coming.