Hackastory

Hackastory

Exploring the future of journalism in the digital age

Make an impact online

The possibilities of the digital era are more important than ever before to be embraced by journalism and media. They are crucial to staying influential in this rapidly changing rollercoaster. Hackastory is your digital place to be. With our hackathons, academy, and digital tool knowledge, we’re helping journalists, designers, and other creatives to realize their mission.

The past years we worked with newsrooms from dozens of countries on 4 continents and helped literally thousands of journalists and media professionals. While we explore the future of journalism, you can explore how we can help you with your challenges. Have fun!

Digital Story Tools

A handpicked list of tools and resources to build ...

...Your Story!

Tools & Inspiration

Play to Change Journalism is a hackathon in which we 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.

DigitalStory.Tools A handpicked list of tools and resources to build your digital story. This toolkit is visited more than half a million times.

News readers become part of article with plugin PARTicipate is a new plugin, and a result of a Hackastory Hackathon, 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