Hackastory

Hackastory

Your guide in digital journalism innovation

Innovate or die

In this digital era, the world is changing at rocket speed. You must cope with hundreds of first-time situations. One thing is certain: novelty is the new normal. It’s more important than ever before for journalists to embrace digital technology and possibilities. We can help you with that.

We are an innovation agency specialized in journalism. And we’ve worked with thousands of professionals in journalism and dozens of news organizations around the world. Let’s go on an expedition together: we’ll help you transform big problems into concrete solutions, provide training and out-of-the-box kits, give you a variety of resources and tools to create digital stories, we do journalism hackathons, and help you build and deliver creative and technical projects.

Arrange your expedition: tothemoon@hackastory.com

Buckle up, sit tight!

You have the power to change journalism. Our method kit will ignite those capabilities.

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Results

Play to Change Journalism is a hackathon where worked together with media companies from Indonesia, Malaysia, Poland, Ukraine, Hungary, Brazil, Peru, Zimbabwe and South Africa to find solutions to our challenges in the media industry.

News readers become part of article with plugin PARTicipate is a new plugin that integrates readers into the article, allowing news consumers to participate in the truth-finding process. It makes it possible to contribute to a discourse.

Storyweb is made for a younger generation story snackers who want to look at a story from different perspectives and choose their own path through a visual story.

Making serious news engaging and interactive! is an event where journalists from across Europe joined our Digital Storytelling Booster, an essential primer for understanding how the digital transformation affects the way we tell stories.

Hacking journalism around the world

  • From ideation to concrete and creative plans in a day. It’s refreshing and mind-blowing what can be done in short time.

    RTL Nieuws — The Netherlands

  • You can feel your mind expanding as you’re working on your new product. It’s impressive to see and idea become reality. Within 48 hours we had a validated and tested digital prototype.

    Nuba Reports — Sudan

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