Hackastory

For Your Digital Storytelling Tools and Knowledge

Make an impact online

The possibilities of digital storytelling are more important than ever before to be embraced by journalism and media. They are crucial to stay influential in this digital era. Hackastory is your online place to be for your digital storytelling knowledge and Tools.

The past years we worked with newsrooms from dozens countries on 4 continents and helped literally thousands of journalists and media professionals. Our website, including DigitalStory.Tools, is visited more than 700.000 times from countries across the world.

Digital Story Tools

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

...Your Story!

Tools & Inspiration

DigitalStory.Tools A handpicked list of tools and resources to build your digital story. This toolkit is visited more than half a million times. <3

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