Innovation in action
Vocento won the Editors Lab - El País Hackdays
On January 31 and February 1 2014, GEN and El País organized the Editors Lab Madrid: 11 teams had two days to develop an application on 'Liveblogging and Breaking News'. Vocento was the winner, and will compete against other winning teams at the Editors Lab Hackdays Final at the GEN Summit 2014in Barcelona. The event was supported by Yahoo! News and CaixaBank.
The Vocento team describes their winning app as a tool that 'allows multimedia coverage under a liveblogging concept, specially geared towards journalists conducting the coverage and towards users who are close to the event, treated as privileged witnesses'. As members of the Madrid local Vocento newsroom, Fernando Belzunce, Carlos Caneiro and Iván Manzanas wanted an app able to connect users and journalists, and also bring context to the news. As they say: 'We want music, not noise'. The app is a really good tool for fact-checking and it allows easy access to curated content.
The jury gave special mentions to two other teams: El País and 20 minutos. The jury was very pleased with the work of all the teams: 'Today we had eleven winners' said Bersoza.
VOCENTO PROJECT
Participating Media
As, Diario de Navarra, El Confidential, El Diario, EL PAÍS, Marca, Medialab Prado - Escuela de Datos (OKFN-es), RTVE, Vocento, Yahoo!, 20 minutos
Liveblog
Speakers
Robert Mackey
The New York Times
The Jury
Ana Bueno
Mediaset
Évangéline de Bourgoing
Global Editors Network
Millán I. Berzosa
Google News Lab
Photo Gallery
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Javier Moreno introducing the Editors Lab
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Ana Bueno and Millán I. Berzosa
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AS pitch
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EL PAIS team's pitch
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The Pitches Session 1
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The Pitches Session 2
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The Pitches session 3
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Millán Berzosa and Bertrand Pecquerie
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Yahoo! News Teams
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Escuelas de Datos Presentation
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Diario de Navarra Team
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El Diario Team
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RTVE team
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Working session
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Vocento team
Projects developed
El Confidencial
El Diario
Escuela de Datos (OKFN-es)
RTVE Project
Yahoo! News Project
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