Al Shaw Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires Keynote

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1. Al Shaw News Apps Developer ProPublica @A_L Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires.

   Aug., 2012

2. What is a news application?

3. Telling a story in software instead of words and pictures

4. Readers become Users

5. How did we get here?

6. In the beginning

7. CAR

8. News Apps

9. Following the web

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11. Web page Web app

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13. Why?

14. Why?

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16. This is a good thing for deadlines.

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18. And with the CAR guys

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20. News page News app

21. Readers have become Users

22. Readers expect to be Users

23. Readers expect to be Users { We call these ‘do-something’

    boxes }

24. Anatomy

25. Anatomy Far Near Lede

26. Apps generate stories

27. Apps generate stories Text

28. News Apps

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31. Sometimes stories generate apps which generate more stories

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35. How do I start?

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37. Program in anger – DHH

38. Thank you. @A_L propublica.org/tools