Tech and storytelling for legal services
Uber, but for legal help?
Dr Ann Bui is part of the team behind a legal startup that's hoping to connect clients and lawyers.
Claimify wants to help people tell their stories and seek advice at a time and place that’s convenient to them. For lawyers, it means automated paperwork and organised data to feed an AI prediction tool.
So what can journalists and technologists learn from this innovation in the world of legal services? Come along to find out.
6pm: Arrive / Socialise / Grab a drink
6.30pm: Dr Ann Bui : Tech and storytelling in legal services
7pm: Drinks / Food / Discussion
8pm: Close
ICYMI
There's lots of great bits in this New York Times long read on the secret history of women and coding, including this nugget: "The 1968 book Your Career in Computers stated that people who like 'cooking from a cookbook' make good programmers."
Spotting bullshit is easy, right? Well see if you can figure out which of these faces is real, then read up on the team behind it and why they think it's important we all learn to figure this stuff out
Our friends at Hacks/Hackers London have a YouTube channel
Documentary filmmaker Deeyah Khan on the Ezra Klein Show, speaking about the roots of extremism: "When I was filming with some of the white supremacists, I would hear them complimenting jihadis... What they would say is that, you know, what we really need is we need our men to be as committed as they are."
About last month...
Many thanks to last month's speaker Jonathan Webb, who chatted to us about his "dream reporting gig": riding along with a giant, infrared telescope on a 747. If you missed it, here are some of the key takeaways:
What started as a four-part audio series — a co-production of the BBC World Service and ABC Listen — also ended up being told on TV, online, and social media
Planning is everything! Before leaving, Jonathan and his team had to think about what was possible to record, photograph, video on this one flight
After the trip, there was loads of raw material: hours of audio, hundreds of photos, etc. How do you tell the story for each platform?
For radio/audio, a common narrative structure is the "e" path. That is, start with a cool bit, go from there, then cross back to the cool bit
For the online story, they had video and images to play with. The best "scene" to open with ended up being similar to how the audio story started
But for the YouTube video, the team wanted to start with something that would grab the audience — they decided on cost
Lastly, never stop gathering! After all the interviews, all the snapping, all the "gonzo journalism", there was still a three-hour flight back to Christchurch. And then the sun came up. Don't just enjoy the view, photograph it