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Declining viewership and subscribers, fake news and a battle for attention in a tsunami of content. Our digital world is changing at rocket speed and you are coping with hundreds of first-time situations. One thing is certain: novelty is the new normal.

Do you need…

Formats and products that work better in this digital world and for your audience.
An Audience First strategy to get to know, reach and create an impact with your audience.
New resources and skills to embrace digital storytelling.
More innovation in your organization.
A journalism hackathon to build new concepts at rocket speed.

If you do? We can help you with that. We are an innovation agency specialized in journalism and worked with thousands of professionals in journalism and dozens of news organizations around the world. Let’s go on an expedition together: tothemoon@hackastory.com

A key solution

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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