Editors’ Lab at The New York Times

This weekend, April 20-21, we’re hosting an Editors’ Lab hack event at the Times building. The worldwide Editors’ Labs series, organized by the Global Editors Network (GEN), invites teams to build apps and projects around a media-related theme. This weekend’s theme is “newsgaming”: projects at the intersection of games and journalism.

The main objective of the Editors’ Lab is to produce new and open journalistic tools, and to promote a culture of innovation within newsrooms. The future of quality journalism lies in constant innovation. Global Editors Network

Each team will consist of one journalist, one designer and one developer. Teams include staffers from the Associated Press, the Boston Globe and other major media organizations.

Judges from The New York Times, the Online News Association, the Knight Foundation and the Global Editors Network will review the teams’ projects and choose one winner. The grand prize is $6,500 â€" plus the chance to compete against nine other winning teams at the GEN News Hackathon in Paris. At the Editors’ Lab in Buenos Aires last September, the winning team created visualizations of auto theft statistics using data from several sources, including the public.

We’ll post some highlights next week, and you can follow @editorsnet for updates during the event.