February 6th, 2015
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Zoom We’re so excited to be headed back to the West Coast for ONA15! Join us for three days of journalism, tech and innovation in LA, Sept. 24-26. We’ve got a great team helping us create the conference. Our co-chairs, who will help guide the theme and...

We’re so excited to be headed back to the West Coast for ONA15! Join us for three days of journalism, tech and innovation in LA, Sept. 24-26.

We’ve got a great team helping us create the conference. Our co-chairs, who will help guide the theme and vision for the conference, include Megan Garvey, Deputy Managing Editor at The Los Angeles Times, David Smydra, Manager of News Partnerships at Google, and Robert Hernandez, our Board Liaison and Associate Professor of Professional Practice at USC Annenberg. Our program committee, led by INN’s Luis Gomez and The Los Angeles Times’ Julie Westfall, is already in place and will help sort through the great ideas from our community to craft the session topics.

We’ll begin accepting session ideas at the end of February. In advance, you can help us shape the program by weighing in on what issues and trends are emerging in your newsrooms.

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April 11th, 2014
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How to Break News While You Sleep

endofjournalism:

Ken Schwenke explains his Quakebot that made headlines when it scooped every human reporter about an earthquake in LA.

Takeaway paragraph

Why do I get a byline on these stories? Because in a very real sense, I have written them. I wrote the template, I determined—using both my and my editors’ judgment—the thresholds at which to report them, and I put together the machinery to write them. I’ve interviewed folks at the USGS and I’ve interviewed the data. The bot is just a codification of the things I would do as a regular reporter trying to get the basic facts up.

Two questions for every news organisation:

  1. Do you have someone in your newsroom who can do that kind of work?
  2. Can your content management system deal with this sort of input? 
Reblogged from Life and Code
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