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TechRaking II: Gaming the News

TechRaking II is a daylong event on Sept. 19, 2012, dedicated to the intersection of news and games. Social and gaming continue to play a major role in how the public gathers information and interacts with content online.

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Gaming industry executives, designers and artists will convene with investigative journalists to explore how gaming platforms can be used to reach and engage citizens in investigative journalism. In addition to participating in discussions with industry leaders, conference participants will be divided into teams and challenged to develop pitches for news games that connect players in radically new ways. The winning team will receive $10,000 worth of development time from Coco Studios to jump-start its idea with the Center for Investigative Reporting. 

The agenda for the day will be:

9-10 a.m.: “State of Play” kickoff
10 a.m.-noon: Breakout sessions exploring current best practices in the gaming and news space
noon-1 p.m.: Guest speaker
1-5 p.m.: Design Sprints – sessions with five to 10 groups designing their “News Games”
5-6 p.m.: Winning group announced
7-10 p.m.: After-party at Gallery 16, co-presented with PBS MediaShift, sponsored by CUNY, Graduate School of Journalism

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This conference is co-presented with the Online News Association and Public Radio International, hosted by IGN at its headquarters in San Francisco. For registration information, please contact Kristin Crawford at kcrawford@cironline.org.

 

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Thanks for making the CIR/Google TechRaking conference such a success! We are also eager to hear about the ideas and projects everyone came up with on Thursday and will consider providing small start-up support for a few new ideas that could help investigative reporters do their work. Please share ideas in the survey and follow the TechRaking groups on Facebook, Google + for more information. We're excited to continue the conversation.

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Founder of Google News Holds Google+ Hangout with International Journalists
Watch the video of the Google+ Hangout held at TechRaking featuring Krishna Bharat, the founder of Google news, Sree Sreenivasan, Columbia University journalism school, Amna Nawaz, NBC News Pakistan bureau chief/correspondent, Nic Robertson, CNN International senior correspondent, and Sarah Hill, KOMU anchor.

 
 
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