Modern newsrooms need modern ways to create, manage and distribute content; yet so many organizations are stuck with old tools and processes that just don’t work. Enter: #SNDMakes.
From Oct. 17 to Oct. 19, the Society for News Design will take over the office of Upstatement, where over 40 professionals from 19 different organizations are coming together to apply design thinking to questions like, “How can we design a better content management workflow?” and “How can we empower editors, reporters and producers to create more engaging news presentations?”
Throughout the next week, we’ll share more details about the event program, and revisit prototypes from our first event in March. You can follow along with #SNDMakes on Twitter and Instagram — as well as by checking updates on snd.org — to see how we move from ideation to brainstorming, and then to prototypes.
In the meantime, meet the news nerds coming together in Boston to tackle content creation:
- Sheryl Sulistiawan, Designer, Bloomberg
- David Putney, User-Experience Designer, The Boston Globe
- Adrienne Debigare, Product Manager, The Boston Globe
- Elaina Natario, Digital Designer, The Boston Globe
- Daniel McLaughlin, Creative Technologist, The Boston Globe
- Michael Workman, Digital Design Director, The Boston Globe
- Christopher Plummer, User-Experience Designer, Dockyard
- Kawandeep Virdee, Creative Technologist, Embedly
- Dheerja Kaur, Senior Product Manager, ESPN
- Kamal Grey, Senior Product Manager, ESPN
- Stephen Clancy, Manager of Site Development, ESPN
- Reed Reibstein, Art Director, Garcia Media
- Jeanne Brooks, Executive Director, Hacks/Hackers
- Adam Schweigert, Senior Director of Product and Technology, Investigative News Network
- Kaeti Hinck, Design Director, Investigative News Network
- Lisa Williams, Fairy Godmother, Investigative News Network
- Miranda Mulligan, Chief, Knight Lab
- Sean Dillingham, Product Design and Engineering Manager, KPCC
- Fink Densford, Graduate Student, Boston University
- Tyson Evans, Editor for Newsroom Strategy, The New York Times
- Deep Kapadia, Systems Architect, The New York Times Lab
- Rob Martinez, Project Manager, Northpoint Digital
- Doug Harris, Chief Software Architect, Slate
- Amanda Krauss, Director of Technology, Texas Tribune
- Pete Karl, Director of Technology, Upstatement
- Jared Novack, Partner, Upstatement
- Tito Bottitta, Partner, Upstatement
- Nathan Hass, Designer, Upstatement
- Emma Baker, Design Apprentice, Upstatement
- Grant Staublin, Designer, Upstatement
- Ryan Gantz, Director of User Experience, Vox Media
- Ramla Mahmood, Designer, Vox Media
- Chris Thorman, Director of Audience Development, Vox Media
- Tyson Whiting, Designer, Vox Media
- Alisha Ramos, Front-end Designer, Vox Media
- Mike Case, Product Coordinator, Vox Media
- Chris Haines, Senior Product Manager, Vox Media
- Steve McKinney, Software Engineer, Vox Media
- Chris Ballard, Product Designer, The Washington Post
Event committee
- Kyle Ellis, Product Development Manager, The American City Business Journals; Ring-leader, #SNDMakes
- Mike Swartz, Partner, Upstatement
- Emily Taylor, Project Manager, Upstatement