We ran our first Discovery JamFrustrated by hackathon projects that are fun to build but useless in the real world, a group came together one Wednesday evening at Newspeak House to change that.We dug into real world problems. Small teams quickly collected their findings in the Jams below. And

This year's hack was something different.Before the hack we mapped the problem space at our first Discovery Jam (write-up coming soon).Then at the weekend hack jammers shared what they learnt with the hackers. And so together they came up with project ideas that met real human needs. The

On February 12th & 13th 2022 40 programmers, designers, and news veterans gathered for the third HackThePress hackathon.HackThePress’ local news partners - ClearSky and Social Spider - issued three problem statements to the attendees:How can we build connections between members of a local community?How can we amplify