Want to hack the future of news? the future of news? Join the Knight-Mozilla Challenge! This event will explain how.

YOU could build the next game changing web app for news. We want to help.

inspiration: open tech for primary-source documents

inspiration: open source data visualization toolkit

inspiration: HTML5 tools for cross platform narrative content

What inspires you? put up your hand

Knight and Mozilla want the open tech and culture of the web to become a core part of how news is made.

How? Find five talented developers and designers.Put them in innovative newsrooms for a year.Build open web apps that shape the field.

How can new web video tools transform news storytelling? Challenge No. 1 How can new web video tools transform news storytelling? How can new web video tools transform news storytelling? Video is a central part of many people's daily news experience. But most online video is still stuck in a boring embedded box, like "TV on a web page," separated from the rest of the page content. This offers little in the way of context or opportunities for viewers to engage more deeply. New open video tools make it possible to pull data from across the web right into the story. Information related to the video can literally "pop" into the page. And videos themselves can change, dynamically adapting as stories evolve. The challenge is to use these tools in ways that serve the story. How can we enrich news video through things like added context, deeper viewer engagement, and the real time web? What are the untapped possibilities inherent in many-to-many, web video? Invent new ways to tell multimedia news stories online Propose compelling demonstrations of how HTML5 and open video can better present the news, weaving together moving images with related data, added context and opportunities for engagement. Take a moment to: Visit sites like Storify and Paper.li . What might a similar aggregation experience feel like for video? Watch how the recent PBS Annotated State of the Union video mixes analysis of the speech with the video itself. Check out Arte's experiments with "semantic" [1] [2] Read about The Stream, and consider how social media and live video can complement each other. Visit the Popcorn.js site and check out some of the examples and documentation. Then, visit Mozilla's Web of Wonder, and consider how new technologies like WebGL, canvas, and CSS3 can help address this challenge. Explore how transcripts, subtitles, and linked text can give users different ways to engage with rich media. What creative storytelling approaches do these new web video tools open up for news organizations? How might you tell a story by pulling in video, data and other material from across the web? How can semantic video help audiences dig deeper into other forms of context and content? How do we create compelling narrative experiences -- and avoid overwhelming viewers with too much information?

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Examples?

Joining in: Submit an idea (or many). Just a sketch will do.If it’s good, we help you prototype. We might fly you to Berlin.If it’s great, you may end up in a newsroom for a year where you get to build your app.

Start right now!

Start right now!

Tonight: Grab a beer and some pizza. Find three people you don’t know.Brainstorm ideas with them. Make a sketch.Take a photo of your idea and submit it to drumbeat.org/journalism

http://mzl.la/mojolist http://drumbeat.org/journalism Sign up for: Submit at: http://drumbeat.org/journalism