The document discusses the need for collaboration between journalists and technologists to solve problems and invent the future of journalism. It outlines how journalism once encompassed the entire process of making a newspaper, from reporting to publishing. Now journalists and technologists each have expertise that can be combined, but they speak different languages. The author proposes training journalists in technology and technologists in journalism so they can better collaborate and work at the intersection of the fields. Hacks/Hackers was formed to bring journalists and programmers together through meetups and events.

1. Closing the gap: Journalism & technology Rich Gordon Director of Digital Innovation Medill School, Northwestern University