The Global Editors Network
Editors Lab France
Paris - March 26 - 27
Final Report
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Contents
Summary: TheEditors Lab Programme
The GEN Editors Lab programme is a worldwide series
of hackdays hosted by leading news organisations
such as The New York Times, The Guardian and
El Pas. Editors Lab brings together developers,
journalists and designers from top newsrooms to
build news prototypes during an intensive two-day
competition. The Global Editors Network has already
run two successful Editors Lab seasons and the third
season (2014-2015) is up and running.
Summary
Teams, speaker & jury
Winner
Special mentions
Other Projects & Social Media
Survey Samples
Contact
About the Global Editors Network
The Global Editors Network is a cross-platform
community of editors-in-chief and media innovators
committed to sustainable, high-quality journalism,
empowering newsrooms through a variety of
programmes designed to inspire, connect and share.
Our online community allows media innovators
from around the world to interact and collaborate
on projects created through our programmes. The
GEN Board Members support this mission and have
signed the GEN Manifesto.
External Links
GEN Community Website
The Global Editors Network Website
GEN Board Members
Data Journalism Awards
Editors Lab Programme
#HackAgainstEbola
About Le Parisien
Established in 1944, Le Parisien is a leading French
daily newspaper that covers international, national
and local news. The newspaper has a circulation of
430,000 copies and a readership of 2.5 million readers.
Le Parisien hosted the Editors Lab programme.
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Press
France 24 et RFI champions de linnovation
journalistique
Scooped by Ecran Mobile en France
Des journalistes innovants
The France
24 team
won the
Editors Lab
hackdays in
Paris
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Teams
Data Addict
France 24
Le Monde
Radio France
Sciences Po
20 Minutes
Le Parisien
The Speakers
Nicholas Whitaker, Media Outreach Manager,
Google News Lab
Steve Herrmann, Editor, BBC News Online
Tommaso Venturini, Associate Professor and
coordinator, Sciences Po University
Vanessa Schneider, Geo Media Program Manager,
Google
The Jury
Jean-Franois Julliard, Directeur Gnral,
Greenpeace France
Joel Ronez, Digital Media Manufacturer
Evangline de Bourgoing, Programme Manager,
Global Editors Network
Nicholas Whitaker, Media Outreach
Manager, speaking to the participants
during the Editors Lab in Paris
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The Winner
France 24 and RFI won the competition with Mon Paris 24 Observers, a collaborative site and TV programme
Climat. Mon Paris Climat is a free mobile application on France 24 that covers international current affairs
that offers a personalized and interactive coverage by using eyewitness accounts from Observers.
of the COP21.
The app will also include a video live stream of the
The first time they use the app, users will be asked to conference. Thanks to audio recognition, articles
answer 5 questions to determine if they are climate- on the topics being debated live will appear in real
skeptic or climate-friendly. If they are considered time below the live stream. ChromeCast is integrated
climate-skeptic, the users will be offered content so it is possible to have a second screen experience.
exposing the effects of climate change. If their Moreover, the app will include a liveblog (containing
answers indicate that they are climate-friendly, they live reporting, tweets, pictures, YouTube and
will be shown content on concrete citizen initiatives SoundCloud content etc.), articles, radio and TV
programs.
The team demoed live their app. They prototyped
on Android but the app will be available on IOS as
well. The prototype was in French but the app will
also be available in English and Arabic.The team
plan to release it weeks before the opening of the
conference.
around the world that aim at mitigating climate
change. This content will be gathered by the France
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Personalizing and gamifying the user experience was
deemed as a smart way to drive more engagement
on climate change issues. Complementing the live
streams of the debates by articles on the same topic
could be an interesting way to provide more contextual
information to the audience and could even be a way
to help them fact-check the different arguments.
The great editorial, development and design skills
displayed by the France 24-RFI team could lead to an
impressive app in the coming months.
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Special Mentions
Le Parisien won a special mention for Kodako. Kodako
is a collaborative data collection ( Co-da-co ) tool,
built to foster local event coverage by journalists;
especially for big and messy events like the upcoming
Climate Conference of Paris. This web app allows
reporters quickly create, share, publish and update
instantly data and multimedia based story, whether
theyre attending the summit itself (negotiations
or press conferences), side events (happenings) or
demonstrations.The process to collect, share and
publish content is very simple and is adaptated to
mobile.
This ambitious project
could greatly facilitate
the workflow of the
newsroom. This versatile
tool could be used in
different contexts
This ambitious project could greatly facilitate the
workflow of the newsroom. This versatile tool could
be used in different contexts (elections, sport events
etc) and would be likely to last in the long term.
Le Monde won a special mention with Code COP21.
Code COP21 is a Web app to explore and fully
experience the 2015 United Nations Climate Change
Conference. Starting with a schedule organized by
the newspaper, you can look up information and data
about the main events. Star your favorite events, with
a system of alerts to warn you a few days or hours
before. Join the event using a map, which calculate
your carbon footprint at the same time. You can find
to which events you friends are going. And last, Le
Monde curated a special feed for the conference,
with live reporting, tweets and more.
With its smooth user experience and its useful
personalized content, this app could become the
indispensable companion for the COP21 followers.
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Other Projects
Your Move, Sciences Pos project is a newsgame that lets
the user make decisions on climate change issues and
helps them understand the consequences of policies.
Upon entering the game, the user is assigned a country
profile and must make decisions based off of real issues
within that country or region, and then see the effect
of those decisions. They can then see the results from
other users on a continuously changing map.
Carbon Fighter
Carbon Fighter, Dataaddicts project is a serious game
about CO2 emissions. The goal of the game is to diminish
the emission rate of each country in compliance with
the Kyoto protocol.
#MaPlante++, Radio Frances project is a platform
gathering ideas and projects of biocrateurs (aka
biomakers in English) and making them available
to the public.
#MaPlante++
Cest chaud!, 20 Minutess project is a responsive web
app which cover the COP21 and let the users give its
opinion about climate change issues.
Social Media
Cest chaud!
169 uniques visitors on ScribbleLive
with 58 minutes in average spent on
live blog
375 tweets with #editorslab
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Survey Samples
How would you describe your experience of the event as a whole?
Good experience. Very interesting workshops !
Fun, useful and pretty stressful (the good kind)
A first time for me. Instructive, a good exchange with the other teams.
Very good experience. It was very interesting to meet with other medias.
Really nice to have some words with other teams, conferences are very interesting, that is the good event
Interesting laboratory about web journalism. Thinking about tomorrow (and actually having time to do it)
What was the most useful part of the event for you? Why?
Sources about COP21
The pitch session because you get super motivated and inspired by other people ideas & projects.
I have really liked the workshops especially the BBC and the Google ones.
The conference about Data and Climate Change on the first day was very useful to understand what could be
the editorial issues to be covered during the COP.
Conferences, an idea: could be fun to mix the teams in order to know best each other
What did you think about the schedule of the Editors Lab?
A bit speed. We need one more day to share...improve project of others,
What did you learn during those two days?
To work with a developer
Be clear, efficient and hard-working
It was very interesting to see how other news organizations are working
If we come back, on which theme would you like to work?
Migrations, social media issues, jihadism
How to convert old journalists to the new way of telling a story
Gaming, culture, cinema
Any suggestions to improve the Editors Lab?
Make the speed geeking a little bit longer
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Contact
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Programmes Manager
[email protected]
00 33 7 60 59 45 43
14 rue des Minimes
75003 Paris
France
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