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International Journalists Use GEN Live Desk on Election Night

Fifty reporters from 46 countries will get a front-row seat to history on November 6 as they cover election night from the United States for their audiences back home. They will live-blog stories from the polls in battleground states using an exciting new tool, the Global Editors Network’s (GEN) Live Desk platform.

The journalists are participating in the Elections 2012 Visiting Journalists Program, a project run by the International Center for Journalists and funded by the U.S. Department of State Foreign Press Center. The reporters are positioned in critical states—Colorado, Florida, Wisconsin and others—for two weeks leading up to the election. This experience will allow them to provide their home audiences with firsthand reports on the voters, the key campaign issues and the candidates themselves. The participants have also been invited to submit stories to The Huffington Post.

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Clarin.com wins the first GEN Editors' Lab in Buenos Aires

The Global Editors Network held its first Editors' Lab Workshop in South America at Clarin's newsroom in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 26 September 2012. 

Twelve teams from the Argentinian media competed to develop the best ideas and concepts concerning journalistic tools, interactive stories, and applications to be used in Data Journalism around the topic security and crime.

The team from Clarin.com was the winner of the contest, and they will be invited to the final Editors' Lab Hackathon to be held in Paris during the News World Summit, from 19 to 21 June, 2013. 

The winning project is a data journalism application visualizing the car robberies statistics produced by insurance companies. The jury rewarded the use of an original data source, as well as the data-scraping techniques chosen by the team.

Each team consisted of three members – a journalist, a developer and a graphic designer – from the same media organisation. The teams were all coached and judged by a jury composed of Dario Datri, the Editor-in-Chief of Clarin.com, Juan Pablo Kutianski, Head of Editorial Technology at Clarin, and Antoine Laurent, Deputy Director of the Global Editors Network and project manager of the Editors' Lab.

The twelve teams who competed in Buenos Aires were from different Argentinian media: La Nacion, La Voz del Interior, Perfil, Clarin, Rumbos y La Gaceta.

The Editors’ Lab is a worldwide series of hackdays/workshops organised by the Global Editors Network and hosted by the leading newsrooms in the world, concluding with an international two-day Hackathon at the News World Summit 2013 which will gather together the best teams from each Editors' Lab workshop. It's the first international hacking league for journalists!

The main objective of the Editors' Lab is to produce new and open journalistic tools, and to promote a culture of innovation within newsrooms. 

In 2012-2013, the Editors' Lab will make 6 stops before the News World Summit in Paris in June 2013:

November 2012: Paris, France (Geo-localization at Les Echos newsroom)
January 2013: Berlin, Germany (theme and host to be announced)
February 2013: London, United Kingdom (theme and host to be announced)
March 2013: location, theme and host to be announced
April 2013: location, theme and host to be announced
May 2013: location, theme and host to be announced 19-21
June 2013: Final Editors' Lab Hackathon, at the News World Summit in Paris, France

If you wish to participate or host an Editors' Lab workshop in your newsroom, don't hesitate to contact the project manager:
Antoine Laurent, Deputy Director, Global Editors Network 
alaurent [at] globaleditorsnetwork [dot] org

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Khanfar was speaking to the Global Editors Network summit in Hong Kong. According to Journalism.co.uk, Khanfar told summit attendees that Al Jazeera faced an increased amount of pressure from governments across the Arab world after uprisings in Egypt broke out in 2010.
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