Hacks/Hackers October Meetup
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- Michael Keller @mhkeller (https://twitter.com/mhkeller)
Michael is an interactive news reporter at Al Jazeera America. He's also one of the people behind NewsLynx (http://newslynx.org/), which aims to "quantitatively and qualitatively measure the impact of journalism (http://towcenter.org/blog/tow-fellows-brian-abelson-and-michael-keller-to-study-the-impact-of-journalism/)".
- Brian T. Jacobs @btjakes (https://twitter.com/btjakes)
Brian is a Knight-Mozilla fellow at ProPublica. He'll talk satellite imagery, with particular reference to this project he worked on (http://projects.propublica.org/louisiana/).
Lightning round:
Greg Barber, @gjbarb (http://twitter.com/gjbarb)
Greg Barber, director of digital news at the Washington Post will talk about Coral, a new digital community project
All three speakers are here in town for Mozilla Festival MozFest.
Hacks/Hackers October Meetup