Welcome to another newsletter, hacks and hackers. This newsletter, in fact, made it on the Lenfest Institute’s list of journalism weeklies to pay attention to. Check out the rest:
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Happy Sunday, hacks and hackers! It’s going to be a full week for H/H groups, with meetups taking place from Rosario to Brisbane.
Plus let’s give a warm welcome to Abuja, the newest group in the Hacks/Hackers Africa family! They held their first event Thursday in Ventures Park Abuja in Nigeria.
twttr.widgets.createTweet( '898567286847660032', document.getElementById('tweet-container-898567286847660032'), ); The week ahead:
Montreal is talking UX and UI Austin is hearing from Conde Nast Buenos Aires is holding a meeting for volunteers ahead of the upcoming Media Party Brisbane is hearing from Google News Lab Rio de Janeiro is hosting a fake news hackathon IRE is holding its regular weekly open lab Rosario is discussing Internet security Worth a read:
Hello again, hacks and hackers! If you missed it, the only conference for investigative journalists worldwide announced its speakers this week:
twttr.widgets.createTweet( '895162865182806016', document.getElementById('tweet-container-895162865182806016'), ); The full schedule will be up soon. In the meantime, there’s still time to register for the Hacks/Hackers Media Party in Buenos Aires.
Worth a read:
The latest tool every news outlet needs is a newsletter, NiemanLab says (NiemanLab) There has been a knowledge gap in Brazil: where to find journalism awards and how to apply.
Happy Sunday, hacks and hackers! Yesterday marked the end of this year’s SRCCON, a celebration of open data and innovative news practices. Check out live transcripts and notes from the presentations or the hashtag #srccon.
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Some developers are trying to make opposition to fake news more popular by gamifying it (NiemanLab) On that note, MisinfoCon’s latest post is about Facebook’s attempts to up its fake news-checking business: by paying the fact-checkers (MisinfoCon) With news subscriptions on the rise this year, Chartbeat has released a tool to monitor what your subscribers are most interested in, as opposed to non-subscribers (Poynter) Job openings:
Greetings, hacks and hackers! We have a trifecta of dream jobs for news nerds this week: you could write stories for NiemanLab, help the John S. Knight Fellowship program engage its audience, or even have a title like Future of Journalism Director at the Knight Foundation.
twttr.widgets.createTweet( '888370221127487488', document.getElementById('tweet-container-888370221127487488'), ); The upcoming month provides a small break in conference season, but then we’re right back into it with six - yes, six - Hacks/Hackers-related events in September.
Welcome to the latest newsletter, hacks and hackers. We’ve got some new events coming up in November, so start planning ahead.
Last week, Rio de Janeiro hosted a speaker from Stanford, and shared some pics of the event:
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Brisbane is discussing accountabiity in the digital age IRE is holding its regular open lab London is holding its July meetup Philadelphia is welcoming the Asian American Journalists Association Worth a read:
Happy Sunday, hacks and hackers. If you’ve been enjoying our suggested reading from NiemanLab every week, you might want to apply to their Knight Visiting Fellowships at the Nieman Foundation at Harvard:
twttr.widgets.createTweet( '886196909823733760', document.getElementById('tweet-container-886196909823733760'), ); Also open this week: cash prizes for innovative journalism in Russia and travel stipends to an entrepreneurship conference in Nigeria. Plus, the Hacks/Hackers Media Party has opened its call for proposals.
Hello again, hacks and hackers. It’s now July and we will be holding our global planning call next Wednesday at 12 noon EST. Add it to your calendar here.
If you can’t make it, please add your thoughts to the call notes: July 2017 Global Call Agenda. So far we’re discussing Africa’s StoryLab Academy and the Media Party in Buenos Aires, but we want to hear what you’ve got going on!
Hi, hacks and hackers. Let’s give a friendly welcome to Hacks/Hackers Havana (a.k.a. Periodistas y programadores de Habana), which just opened up shop in Cuba. Organizer and founder Barbara Maseda said they had higher than expected attendance for their first event.
If you or anyone you know is interested in starting a chapter where you are, check out the Start a Group guide on the website.
Also, the global planning call, which is usually held the first Wednesday of the month, is postponed, for those celebrating the U.
Greetings, hacks and hackers. The Knight Foundation announced the winners of its misinformation prototype grants here at the IRE conference, and several Hacks/Hackers projects were among the awardees:
twttr.widgets.createTweet( '877985898410852352', document.getElementById('tweet-container-877985898410852352'), ); Check out some of their blog posts on the MisinfoCon site. And if you missed this round of grants, ICFJ has extended the deadline for its Truthbuzz initiative for another couple weeks:
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