Much ink has been spilled about the challenges posed to the press by the digital age - but even more ought to be spilled about the opportunities of digital journalism. We are supporting Editors’ Lab Hackdays Editors' Lab in Austria. German-language media groups from Austria, Germany and Switzerland were represented, including Zeit Online , Der Standard , Neue Zurcher Zeitung , ORF , Der Spiegel and Vorarlberg Online . Editors’ Lab was “Covering International Migration.” Participants were organised into teams and competed for a prize of EUR 5000 for the best new storytelling tools, applications and data journalism projects on international migration. “We want to encourage journalists, developers and designers to collaborate stories, even if they are all from different departments,” said Gerold Riedmann, CEO of Russmedia Digital and GEN Board Member. Editors’ Lab Austria included presentations and classes. On the opening day, Simon Rogers, Data Blog Editor at the Guardian, gave a keynote address. Adam Thomas, Founder of Hack/Hackers Berlin and Head of Communications of SourceFabric, taught a course on data journalism.Editors’ Lab Hackdays in Cairo, New York City, New Delhi, and Amsterdam. All the winners receive an invitation to the final GEN News Hackathon at the GEN News Summit in Paris from June 19 to 21, 2013.Posted by Wolfgang Fasching-Kapfenberger, Communications and Public Affairs Manager
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