#newsHACK II: info and API videos
Matt Shearer
Innovation Manager
Following my post announcing the #newsHACK II event on May 1st we've published some pre-event videos to help explain Storyline, and some of the APIs and tools that will be available to participants in the competition around "The future of News Curation".
Here's a list of #newsHACK II videos with links:
A film from Global Editors Network & BBC about the GEN programme and this event
Storyline for #newsHACK II - background and context
Team working at the 1st newsHACK
Both the Global Editors Network and the BBC are excited about the teams taking part, including some organisations from last #newsHACK - SKY NEWS, The Times, Swansea University, FT, UCL et al - plus a swathe of new teams, inlcuding STV, Storyful, Queen Mary University of London to name a few.
The two winning teams will win a place in the #EditorsLab final in June in Barcelona.
To find out more, including the Glasgow and Dublin venue information, please see the #newsHACK website.
If you haven't signed up yet but are interested in attending please check out what you need as a team to register here.
If you have any further questions please email BBC Connected Studio or leave a comment.
Matt Shearer is Innovation Manager, BBC News Labs
