Alex’s work on Source

Code

1. Tarbell

Projects

1. Meet Tarbell
2. The GEN Newsgaming Hackathon
3. Illinois School Report Cards

Articles by Alex

1. 

   The GEN Newsgaming Hackathon

   The Chicago Tribune team reports back

   Posted on April 25, 2013

   Last weekend, ten teams participated in a competition to develop newsgames at Editors’ Lab New York, a hackathon organized by the Global Editors Network and The New York Times. Combining the fantastical and playful aspects of gaming with hard news is a hard problem and there are few examples of well-conceived and executed newsgames. Thanks to the hack day, there are now a few more.