Hacks/Hackers #33 – Monitoring Airstrikes, and keeping your readers coming back

Let's meet in August and talk about journalism and technology! We have the following amazing speakers for you!

Basile Simon (@basilesimon (https://twitter.com/basilesimon)) will speak about the main challenges we face at Airwars (monitoring international airstrikes), a typical example of a collaboration between hacks and hackers. From literacy issues to the loneliness of being a one-man band, I'll walk us through how we make things work and how I addressed our struggles since we started monitoring bombings in Iraq and Syria two years ago, and since grew to a 10ish-strong team. Basile runs Airwars.org's data engines and build data-visualisations and workflows for our team of journalists and researchers. Formerly at BBC News Labs and soon to join the Times and Sunday Times Digital Team in September as a Newsroom Developer.

Sarah Marshall (@sarahmarshall (https://twitter.com/sarahmarshall)) asks how can we create news products that people return to every day? She is one of the lovely Hacks/Hackers organisers for the London branch, currently working at the Wall Street Journal. Join in and ask her som

See you there!

The Berlin Team