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• Hacking the News: Applying Computer Science to Journalism

  by Burt Herman, Upendra Shardanand, Jennifer 8. Lee, Trei Brundrett and Tristan Harris

  Reporters and editors work in ways that are still largely tied to old print and broadcast models. Applying lessons from computer science can help make journalism more scalable, flexible and personalized.

  This panel will discuss developments such as object-oriented programming, model-view controller frameworks, database-driven Web applications and social code repositories -- and explore how these principles can be applied to journalism and create the future of storytelling.

  For example, making stories in an object-oriented mindset can help journalists work more efficiently, reusing and building on past work. Stories can be created as structured data that can be mashed up and viewed in more flexible ways by readers. Readers can get personalized stories that highlight what's new to them -- rather than having to read through what they already know to glean the latest news.

  • Hacking
  • Journalism

  At 11:00am to 12:00pm, Sunday 13th March

  In Creekside, Sheraton Austin Hotel at the Capitol

• Media Tomorrow: The Message is the Messenger

  by Jenn Van Grove, Jeremiah Owyang, Joe Chernov, Leslie Bradshaw and Sarah Evans

  Disruptive technologies and corroding trust in business have combined turn Marshall McLuhan’s adage “the medium is the message” inside out. Information now spreads laterally, triggered not by institution but by individual. The message is the messenger. This panel will explore how four individuals are reshaping the design, consulting, PR and journalism industries by understanding how information is consumed today.

  LEVEL: Beginner

  • Consulting
  • Design
  • Journalism
  • Public Relations

  At 3:30pm to 4:30pm, Sunday 13th March

  In Creekside, Sheraton Austin Hotel at the Capitol