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Event viz OpenVisConf The NYT’s Amanda Cox on Winning the Internet

• By Erin Kissane
• Amanda Cox
• The New York Times

Our first write-up from OpenVis Conf in Cambridge, MA features the opening keynote from Amanda Cox of the New York Times Graphics desk.

Event games hackathon The GEN Newsgaming Hackathon

• By Alex Bordens, David Eads, Ryan Mark
• Alex Bordens, David Eads, Ryan Mark
• The Chicago Tribune

Last weekend, ten teams participated in a competition to develop newsgames at Editors’ Lab New York, a hackathon organized by the Global Editors Network and The New York Times.

Combining the fantastical and playful aspects of gaming with hard news is a hard problem and there are few examples of well-conceived and executed newsgames. Thanks to the hack day, there are now a few more.

Event report back MozFest Election Hacking at MozFest

• By Erin Kissane
• Bloomberg News, Knight Lab, NPR, OpenNews, ProPublica, Sourcefabric, The Chicago Tribune, The Financial Times, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Spokesman-Review, The Times, Ushahidi

At MozFest today in London, OpenNews led a 70-person session on election-related news apps and tools.