How can CBC Montreal use tech to help cover the news?

When CBC Montrealdecided to hosta hackathon, we did so with the goal of makingthe news more open, accessible and interactive.

We also wanted all ideas to have the audience in mind, with a focus on how we can serve the public better in 2015 and beyond.

• What is a hackathon?
• Managing Director's blog: Why host a community hackathon?

So with those criteria in mind, we asked developers what they'd do to help us come up with ideas.

Heres a sampling of what they came up with:

• Creating a product for CBC that would allow journalists to be able to access the newsroom'sdatawithout an internet connection.
• Looking through data to measurewomens employment situations at CBC to determine whether or not they're equally represented in the newsroom.
• Creating an online monitoring tool to help journalists discover and track breaking stories.
• Creatinga tool to recommend programs based on a viewers history.
• Creating a crowdsourcing model of news where people could submit their own news, which would be upvoted by other users.
• Mapping news in different neighbourhoods to look at things like which neighbourhoods we cover most, where the most crime happens, orwhere we do entertainment stories.
• Creatinga map of traffic accidents and heavy road circulation to determine traffic trends. For instance, are there correlations between traffic accidents and certain intersections?
• Creating atool to personalize news based on user data and location.

Do you have your own idea? Submit it to us!

• On mobile? Email us here.