#Hack the news
Good morning. Welcome. My name is Tom Meagher and I am the data editor at Digital First Media. I work in a quasi-futuristic, post-apocalyptic newsroom in Manhattan called Project Thunderdome, where I lead a team of developer journalists building data-driven, interactive news applications.
I've spent my entire career in newsrooms and in the past few years I've been sucked into this world of news development.
So we're here for the weekend by this time tomorrow, we're going to have built the next amazing news application. My goal right now is to talk a little about how news development works, show you some examples and offer some advice for getting the most out of the weekend.
What's really great about HackJersey is that we are able to bring so many of you from these two worlds of news and programming together. Fundamentally, reporters are great storytellers and coders are great at building software, and working together there are greater possibilities than either can a