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Dan Sinker heads up the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership for Mozilla. From 2008-2011 he taught in the journalism department at Columbia College Chicago where he focused on entrepreneurial journalism and the mobile web. He is the author of the popular @MayorEmanuel twitter account and is the creator of the election tracker the Chicago Mayoral Scorecard, the mobile storytelling project CellStories, and was the founding editor of the influential underground culture magazine Punk Planet until its closure in 2007. He is the editor of We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet, the collected interviews and was a 2007-08 Knight Fellow at Stanford University. He occasionally blogs about media for the Huffington Post.

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Journalism at the Mozilla Festival: Sunday

The Mozilla Festival on Media, Freedom, and the Web wraps up today with another super-full day. Once again, I wanted to highlight the journalism-related activities happening throughout the day.

Sunday Morning

Design Challenges

Building the Multilingual Newsroom asks a simple question: Could nthe news audience play a key role in creating a translation workflow for both readers and reporters.

Data Journalism Handbook. It’s day two on the weekend-long attempt to write a guide to data journalism.

Learning Labs

HTML Basics for Journalists is a crash course in web basics for low-tech journalists looking to level up their skills.

Popcorn for Beginners. While not an explicitly journalism-related offering, the Popcorn media framework offers incredible opportunities for web-native, time-based reporting and is well worth adding to a digital journalists’ arsenal.

Visualize Your Media Diet. Our friends at the MIT Center for Civic Media host a lab around looking at media consumption habits.

Fireside Chats

There are two great Fireside Chats this morning, SMS and Journalism with WNYC’s John Keefe, which looks at the possibilities in integrating SMS into a journalistic workflow, and “Making Journalism Education Coder-Friendly” co-hosted by myself and Rich Gordon from the Medill School of Journalism, which asks how journalism schools can better adapt to bring coders into the fold.

Sunday Afternoon

Design Challenges

Verifying Breaking News Sources hosted by our friends from Ushahidi looks to tackle the challenge of authenticating news sources on the real-time web.

Learning Labs

Architecting the SMS Newsroom grows out of the morning chat about SMS and Journalism and looks to offer real solutions to integrating SMS into news workflows, co-hosted by folks from Mobile Commons, FrontlineSMS, and Twilio. Hope you have an amazing Sunday!

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