Hello, hacks and hackers! If you missed MisinfoCon in DC this weekend, you can check out some of the takeaways on the #MisinfoCon hashtag.
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And don’t forget you have until the end of the month to apply for a $3,000 USD prize for reporting using freedom of information.
Welcome back, hacks and hackers! If you’re in the London area, Hacks/Hackers London is asking for input on how to be inclusive and engaging.
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Towards Data Science wrote a quick, simple guide that visualizes and explains how six of the most popular machine learning models work (Towards Data Science) Data Feminism is a new book publishing later this year that explores data science and data ethics thru the lens of intersectional feminism, and you can read a pre-publication excerpt here (Nightingale) The Economist wrote up a piece about how they translate data vizzes into compelling Instagram posts by doing things like keeping consistent colors and writing copy that engages their audience (The Economist) twttr.
It’s back, hacks and hackers! The Open Knowledge Foundation’s Open Data Day this year will be on March 7th, and if you’re interested in organizing an open data-related event in your area, you can apply for a mini-grant of up to $300 to help with funds. The deadline to apply is tonight.
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Hello, hacks and hackers! If you’re looking for an interesting new opportunity, the Solutions Journalism Network is hiring six Solutions Specialists to work part time, and remotely, on their Solutions Story Tracker. The deadline to apply is this Thursday.
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Github user Andrei Kashcha developed a tool to display street maps for any city in the world using OpenStreetMap (Github) Engineers on the NYT R&D team created a social media feed prototype that used blockchain to fetch and display metadata behind photos, making it easier to identify fakes (NiemanLab) To increase public knowledge and decrease public panic, paying careful attention to design when communicating information about health risks like coronavirus is vital for public safety (Fast Company) twttr.
Welcome back, hacks and hackers! The University of Florida’s Brechner Center for Freedom of Information is giving away $3,000 prizes to pieces of journalism work published in 2019 that highlights secrecy in government or utilizes public records. The submission deadline is February 28.
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Hello, hacks and hackers! If you mourned the loss of the Data Journalism Awards, buck up: some news nerds got together to create the Sigma Data Journalism Awards to honor great data journalism from around the world. You have until the 3rd of February to apply, if you are so inclined.
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Happy 2020, hacks and hackers! Our first global open call of the decade is coming up on Wednesday! Feel free to tune in to hear what’s going on in HH chapters and share what’s going on in yours.
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Welcome to the new year, hacks and hackers. Last year saw the addition of Northeast England and Seoul, South Korea. Here’s to many more meetups to come!
twttr.widgets.createTweet( '1214271667364487168', document.getElementById('tweet-container-1214271667364487168'), ); In case you missed the announcement last week, our joint project MisinfoCon is holding an upcoming gathering in Washington, D.C. MisinfoCon @ NASEM will focus on health and science misinformation, in partnership with the U.S. National Academies of Sciences.
It’s a new day, a new month and a new decade, hacks and hackers! Usually this would mean a global call coming up, but we are postponing due to the call landing on a holiday for many around the world.
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The Engaged Journalism Accelerator and On Our Radar, a nonprofit communications agency, collaborated on a report on how newsrooms can better cover underserved communities (NiemanLab) Nightingale interviewed Ben Jones, founder and CEO of Data Literacy, on his new book ‘Avoiding Data Pitfalls’ about common mistakes people make when working with data (Nightingale) The Knight Foundation released a study analyzing 86 million tweets about American politics, and found that more than half of the tweets were deemed “center left” in their political ideology (Knight Foundation) twttr.
Happy holidays, hacks and hackers! NiemanLab just released their annual roundup of journalism predictions for 2020. The topics include countering misinformation, unionizing newsrooms and increasing audience engagement.
twttr.widgets.createTweet( '1206678449001291776', document.getElementById('tweet-container-1206678449001291776'), ); In other news, Hacks/Hackers joined forces with the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism to award a grant to Subramaniam Vincent, director of the Journalism and Media Ethics Program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.
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