Joseph Reeve

Join us at our first ever HackThePress social!We'll spend some  time talking about what we all want to get out of the group - learning,  networking, or something else entirely. Then there will be plenty of  time to get to know your fellow tech and news nerds over booze

Hack The Press is an organisation dedicated to enabling, encouraging, and distributing new news-tech. We see a huge potential for technology to improve the news industry, and want to make the great things happen sooner.Things we do:- Organise Events and Hackathons- Curate and Distribute Information about current news-tech-

This event has now happened, for a write-up see: https://hackthepress.org/write-up-hackthepress-hackathon/ News is broken. The current system of  monetisation (advertising) dis-incentivises good quality journalism in favour of clickbait and sensationalism. News organisations have historically existed to solve distribution (printing  presses) and monetisation/marketing (town criers) problems, these are