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Published in Hacks/Hackers London

·Apr 30, 2020

Seven talks on journalism innovation that you should watch

From podcasts to AI and journalism, some food for thought while you are stuck at home — I don’t know about you but I have really been missing the monthly meetups of Hacks/Hackers London. After our March event was cancelled, we managed to come back in a digital format: in April we held our first webinar with three great speakers and we are now working on a…

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Seven talks on journalism innovation that you should watch

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Published in Hacks/Hackers London

·Nov 11, 2019

Why it’s about time we talk seriously about AI and journalism

“This is a complex technology and it is going to take years to discover its impact” — Last February Polis, the international journalism think-tank at the London School of Economics and Political Science, began a research project in collaboration with the Google News Initiative that aimed at investigating the intersection of journalism and artificial intelligence. After seven months of work and collaboration with 71 news organisations currently…

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Why it’s about time we talk seriously about AI and journalism

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Published in Hacks/Hackers London

·Oct 30, 2019

How Vogue is growing audiences by focussing on readers’ needs

And how it contributed to making Vogue India online readership grow by 129% in one year — Of all international publishers, few deserve the adjective ‘global’ as much as Condé Nast, especially the Vogue brand. Since 1892, when the first issue was published in the US, the fashion magazine has launched 26 editions all over the world, without taking into account sister publications such as Teen Vogue.

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How Vogue is growing audiences by focusing on readers’ needs

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Published in Hacks/Hackers London

·Aug 19, 2019

How slow is slow news? 8 questions to Tortoise founder Katie Vanneck-Smith

Like ‘How many members do you need to be sustainable?’ — Last month at Hacks/Hackers London we were joined by Katie Vanneck-Smith, co-founder and publisher of Tortoise, who answered questions from our director Federica Cherubini and our community. You can read a summary of the Q&A below or watch the full interview on our YouTube channel. Tortoise is a slow news startup that doesn’t do breaking news but talks about what drives the news. What does it mean?

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How slow is slow news? 8 questions to Tortoise founder Katie Vanneck-Smith

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Published in Hacks/Hackers London

·May 14, 2019

Five ways journalism can rethink engagement with its audience

Lessons after a year of Engaged Journalism Accelerator at the European Journalism Centre — Platforms have reduced the meaning of engagement to a metric to value the impact of journalism, letting aside its relational and conversational aspect. …

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Five ways journalism can rethink engagement with its audience

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Apr 3, 2019

Going to Perugia? Here’s what I am looking forward to at #IJF19

A very personal selection of panels I will (hopefully) attend — The Journalism Festival of Perugia can be as exciting as busy and it is absolutely impossible to attend all the panels you would like to go to (they overlap 🤷‍♂). …

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Going to Perugia? Here’s what I am looking forward to at #IJF19

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Published in Hacks/Hackers London

·Mar 25, 2019

How to get funding for journalism projects — tips from Hazel Sheffield

The golden rules to nail journalism grants and fund your next project — Hazel Sheffield was working as the business editor of the Independent when she got her first grant. …

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How to get funding for journalism projects — tips from Hazel Sheffield

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Published in Hacks/Hackers London

·Mar 4, 2019

How to launch a daily news podcast — tips from The Guardian’s podcast producer Mythili Rao

Plus: the Cairncross Review on the (sustainable) future of UK journalism; how a Talent Lab taught Quartz the importance of wellbeing in the newsroom. Daily podcast is a risky business. Podcasts are on the rise, for sure, but producing a product every day that can win readers’ attention is not…

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How to launch a daily news podcast — tips from The Guardian’s podcast producer Mythili Rao

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Published in Interhacktives

·Feb 25, 2019

This is what media innovators are doing in 2019

Get ready to take notes! This is what media innovators at the Financial Times, CNN, The Guardian and Condé Nast International are doing to push journalism forward. The media is changing quickly and media innovators have lots of work to do. Journalism is now facing challenges that are going to…

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This is what media innovators are doing in 2019

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Published in Hacks/Hackers London

·Feb 5, 2019

Can Liberating Structures save us from the next useless meeting?

Hacks/Hackers London community tested a method that promises to help us through the hassle of poor communication — “Are there any questions before we wrap up?” The last slide of the presentation flickers on the screen. Heads raise from behind a wall of laptops lined up around the table. Has anyone actually listened to the speaker? How many meetings have we already been through today? …

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Can Liberating Structures save us from the next useless meeting?

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Francesco Zaffarano

Francesco Zaffarano

Journo, nerd • Social media editor at The Telegraph • Former social and engagement at The Economist, la Repubblica, La Stampa • www.francescozaffarano.com

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