Hello again, hacks and hackers! If you’re interested in the fight against misinformation, Hacks/Hackers is co-organizing an event at this year’s MozFest in London.
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The week ahead:
London is hosting a hackathon with Count Worth a read:
This NiemanLab writeup explores the ways journalists view their professional identities and how it impacts their work through the lens of news aggregators (NiemanLab) This guide from Towards Data Science demonstrates 10 tips for improving data plots in Matplotlib or Seaborn, such as adding a threshold line or chart annotations (Towards Data Science) Facebook is one of the world’s largest information distributors, so what would happen if federal regulators tried to break it up?
Hello, hacks and hackers! Registration is now open for MisinfoCon London, a joint anti-misinformation project between Hacks/Hackers and Mozilla. It’ll take place the 23rd of October at the Royal Society for the Arts, as part of MozFest House.
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Hello, hacks and hackers! The Associated Press just released a command-line tool called AP DataKit to make it easier for journalists to view and collaborate with data using standardized templates (in R or Python).
twttr.widgets.createTweet( '1174017545759842304', document.getElementById('tweet-container-1174017545759842304'), ); On that note, OpenNews just whipped up a new data-review program for lone data journalists in smaller newsrooms to be paired up with a peer coach who will help double check analyses and offer guidance.
Hello, hacks and hackers! A lot of you were at the Online News Association conference in New Orleans this weekend, but if you missed it, you can check out the best of it at #ONA19.
twttr.widgets.createTweet( '1172132756244987905', document.getElementById('tweet-container-1172132756244987905'), ); ONA put together a list of ways to follow from home, including everything from Instagram to Stitcher.
The week ahead:
Montreal is meeting at the pub Worth a read:
Hello, hacks and hackers! H/H London introduced a new interview Q&A style format for their monthly meetups, which you can check out on their YouTube channel.
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Worth a read:
If any of your news tools or sites run on Amazon Web Services, be sure to check that your data is secure in the AWS cloud (Datafloq) Researchers studied millennial news consumers’ habits in both the US and UK and found that even if they download mobile news apps, they don’t frequently check them (NiemanLab) Some thieves used an audio deepfake to imitate the voice of the chief executive of a German company and trick one of his employees into transferring almost a quarter million dollars into a secret account (Vice) twttr.
Hello, hacks and hackers! If you haven’t heard of the Journalism Trust Initiative yet, you should read this piece explaining what it is and how it hopes to rebuild media trust globally.
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Worth a read:
Quartz interviewed Hadley Wickham about his thoughts on recent R developments, the future of the tidyverse, and where he stands in the ‘R vs Python’ debate, and (Quartz) The Journalism Trust Initiative is a standards-based approach to mitigating misinformation online by assigning global standards to journalistic content that will make it more transparent, accountable and independent (JTI) The Minneapolis Star Tribune’s senior digital editor wrote openly about their hiring process in staffing up their data/graphics team to make it as fair, diverse and intentional as possible (OpenNews) twttr.
It’s here, hacks and hackers! Media Party, the biggest HH event in the world, kicks off Thursday in Buenos Aires.
twttr.widgets.createTweet( '1164369508032815109', document.getElementById('tweet-container-1164369508032815109'), ); Media Party gathers around 2,500 journalists, developers, designers and entrepreneurs from around the world to talk about journalism and its future. You can still register for it on the HH Buenos Aires Meetup page.
Happening this week:
Abuja, Benin and Lagos are having their monthly meetups London is picnicking in the park Brisbane is learning about physical technologies Singapore is combining art, science and data journalism Seoul is exploring urban data Worth a read:
Greetings, hacks and hackers! We’re guessing some of you are MozFest fans, and the conference is collecting opinions on where it should move after London.
twttr.widgets.createTweet( '1160948527926849537', document.getElementById('tweet-container-1160948527926849537'), ); They’re holding open calls this week and next month, or you can share your opinion in this survey.
Worth a read:
Kuek Ser Kuang Keng, co-organizer of HH Kuala Lumpur, was interviewed in the latest edition of Conversations With Data to discuss the rise of data journalism in South East Asia (DataJournalism.
Guess what, hacks and hackers! Some of the year’s biggest gatherings are coming up soon. The Buenos Aires group got together Friday to plan some last-minute details of Media Party later this month, which is probably the biggest Hacks/Hackers event in the world.
twttr.widgets.createTweet( '1159885024143056897', document.getElementById('tweet-container-1159885024143056897'), ); And next month, ONA is coming to New Orleans. If you have an idea for an ONA-related event, or are looking for a sponsor for your ONA event, please get in touch.
Hello again, hacks and hackers! If you want to move to the scenic Pacific Northwest US, the Seattle Times has got you covered. Check the Job Postings section of this newsletter for half a dozen news-nerd jobs, plus several more at the Times’ website.
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