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  • Meet Karlha Velásquez, SPN Multimedia Producer

    Meet Karlha Velásquez, SPN Multimedia Producer

    Meet the newest member of the SPN team. Karla Velásquez joins us as a multimedia producer to help expand the ways we can tell and share stories.

  • New reporters, new positions help ensure strong Nebraska journalism for the long haul

    New reporters, new positions help ensure strong Nebraska journalism for the long haul

    Help us welcome two new journalists to the Nebraska Journalism Trust. Chris Bowling is a reporter at the Flatwater Free Press, and Karlha Velasquez Rivas is a multimedia producer at Silicon Prairie News.

  • Q&A: Hack Omaha organizer shares why hackers should attend third event

    Calling all Nebraska hackers—the third iteration of Hack Omaha, a three-day public service-themed hackathon, is just around the corner. Organizers hosted the inaugural Hack Omaha last April and have continued to hone the event over the last year and a half …

  • Data competition Hack Omaha returns with one-day format Oct. 13

    Hack Omaha, a programming competition focused on the use of government data, returns Oct. 13 with a new format and cast of supporting organizations. First held over a weekend in April, Hack Omaha is now a 12-hour hackathon pitting teams against each other to build an app using one of three government data sets. The…

  • Food Fight gamifies restaurant ratings, wins Hack Omaha (Video)

    Omaha Food Fight, an app that challenges users to guess the cleanliness of local food establishments, won first place over the weekend at the inaugural Hack Omaha, a programming competition, in the style of Startup Weekend, that required teams to base their projects on datasets of public government information. The event, produced and hosted by…

  • Q&A: Hack Omaha organizer on data, design and a 125-year-old newspaper

    The Omaha World-Herald, Nebraska’s oldest and most-read newspaper, is doing something innovative. But don’t go looking for it in the World-Herald’s print product or on its website. Instead, to see it, you’ll need to visit the World-Herald’s offices in downtown Omaha later this month. From April 13-15, the World-Herald will host Hack Omaha, the area’s…

  • Prairie Portrait: Matt Wynn of the Omaha World-Herald

    Silicon Prairie News: What outcomes would you like to see Hack Omaha produce? | Matt Wynn: When we (at the World-Herald) create something, it’s undoubtedly ours. It answers questions we want asked, it solves problems we think exist. Well, we’re journalists. We’re wired funny. We want to see how the same basic goal — make…

  • World-Herald to host programming competition Hack Omaha in April

    Over the past year, the Omaha World-Herald has released a number of noteworthy projects that make use of public data. Now, staff members of the state’s most-read daily newspaper and website are inviting the public into their newsroom to hack on that data with them. The inaugural Hack Omaha, a weekend programming competition during which…

  • Prairie Moves: StartupCity, QuickCal, OneLouder and more

    Published Tuesdays and Thursdays, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please email editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if…

  • If you tweet it, they will build it. (Well, sorta.)

    Soon after we published our Curbwise story yesterday, which covered the site launched by the Omaha World-Herald utilizing data from the Douglas County Assessor’s Office, I personally tweeted a challenge …