Tell HN: Am hosting a meetup for 40 journalists in Chicago. Hackers welcome

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20 points·brandnewlow··11 comments

There are lots of journalists in Chicago working on different forward-thinking media projects. Several of them and I decided to rent out a bar and invite them all out for drinks this Thursday.

We'd love to get some technology people out there as well, especially if you're interested in news, transparency and journalism.

Also, for those of you that don't know, Brad (brandnewlow) founded the excellent Chicago news site, Windy Citizen:

http://www.windycitizen.com

We had our first story break 50 votes yesterday!

http://www.windycitizen.com/ourmaninchicago/press/2009/09/01...

You might want to invite the EveryBlock guys, they're pretty much the defininition of what you're looking for :)

Doh, I really don't want to re-enable my Facebook account, but I'm tempted for this. :) Can I RSVP some other way?

Just show up. Won't be a problem.

Maybe I will!

I'm at ad:tech. There was an amazing session yesterday that I had no business sitting in on, but did, and oh yeah, it was amazing. I'll try to regurgitate the ideas the smart folks on the panel shared. And I'll bring my drinking hat.

http://www.ad-tech.com/chicago/session_detail.asp?refad=1...

please, regurgitate some of those views here as well!

Rats. My son's birthday tomorrow.

We will figure out this whole meetup thing some time soon. :)

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