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Our world is changing rapidly, but how do you deal with constant change? And is there a way to figure out the future of journalism hands-on?

We believe there is!

The solution is in learning by making, especially in interdisciplinary teams with code, design and journalism skills.

We love to do hackathons. But what the heck is that? It’s a pressure cooker, in which interdisciplinary teams co-create prototypes for online projects. Hackathons have taken the world by a storm and evolved, transitioning from a stereotypical computer programming weekend with energy drinks and pizza, into a place where coders and non-coders are figuring out the future of the web while learning by making. Our hackathons especially caters to and is focused on journalism with a strong content component.

We see experts like journalists, developers and designers are still working in separate worlds, unable to speak each other’s languages. They rarely really work together simultaneously from the beginning of a project. We believe that we need to bridge this gap and bring these professionals together to increase understanding and foster collaboration to innovate in the field of digital and interactive storytelling.

Meet the family

Albertine Piels

Director of Hackastory

Nienke Huitenga

Creative mastermind

Lieke van der Rijk

Multimedia designer

Hay Kranen

Newsroom developer

Cas Cornelissen

Front-end developer

Alka Anna Goos

Tool whisperer

Sander Stallinga

Advisory board

Frank Bosma

Newsroom developer

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We also have a good network of freelance coaches, coders, designers and journalists who love to work on new projects, have fun with rapid prototyping, creative coding and building the future of journalism.

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Idea + Experiment + Test = WOW

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