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Exhausted but enthusiastic teams of developers and journalists finally ended their at New Broadcasting House on Friday.   The top five ideas were presented to a judging panel of senior staff from 麻豆约拍 Design & Engineering and 麻豆约拍 News, who were impressed by the quality of entries.  

"We wanted all the ideas that were shortlisted, but that would be a cop-out," said Matthew Postgate, D&E's Chief Technology and Product Officer. "It's a testament to the amount of hard work put in."   The winning idea was from Team React exploring the use of emojis to allow audiences both to react to stories and to drive their own news agenda according to their mood. 

"It was intense but fun and very productive," said Magda Piatkowska, lead data scientist in 麻豆约拍 News' Audience Engagement & Data team, who organised the event. "A good number of people stayed throughout the night and were coding like crazy. Some went down to the newsroom to join the journalists there - it was brilliant."

The idea of a 24 hour hackathon came to her after her experiences working in the commercial sector in San Francisco. "Sometimes you just don't have enough time to develop ideas in the day-to-day environment, so this was a great opportunity to get different teams working together."

There'll be more reaction from those involved on this blog next week.