Greetings, hacks and hackers! Do you want to find a story in a spreadsheet, launch a media empire, or become an e-sports athlete? Well, Hacks/Hackers is the group for you.

Learn all of those skills and more this week, at H/H gatherings around the world:

Happening this week:

• Brisbane is tracking sources down with online tools
• Rio is talking e-sports
• Miami and IRE are holding their regular open labs
• Johannesburg is discussing media entrepreneurship
• Nairobi is digging data stories from spreadsheets

Worth a read:

• Mainstream media outlets should try to partner with ethnic media without marginalizing them, the American Press Institute found in the conclusion of its 4-part series (API)
• A pair of journalists spent a year trying to distill journalism innovation into a few concise goals (NiemanLab)
• German footballers, Google searches and gender bias all made GIJN’s Data Journalism Top 10 this week (GIJN)

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