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JOURNALISM
Volume 21, Issue 9, Pages 1338-1354Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1464884917737213
Keywords
Audience engagement; community journalism; civic hacking; data journalism; hackathon; newsroom innovation
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Journalism hackathons are computationally based events in which participants create news product prototypes. In the ideal case, the gatherings are rooted in local community, enabling a wide set of institutional stakeholders (legacy journalists, hacker journalists, civic hackers, and the general public) to gather in conversation around key civic issues. This study explores how and to what extent journalism hackathons operate as a community-based laboratory for translating open data from practitioners to the public. Surfaced from in-depth interviews with event organizers encompassing nine countries, the findings illustrate that journalism hackathons are most successful when collaboration integrates civic organizations and community leaders.
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