Hello, hacks and hackers! Are you a working journalist who’s interested in honing your data skills? Paul Bradshaw, one of the founders of H/H Birmingham, created a Master’s curriculum that you can take on part-time:
twttr.widgets.createTweet( '1124210748144668672', document.getElementById('tweet-container-1124210748144668672'), ); Happening this week:
Brisbane is reflecting on elections Zurich is hacking big data London is hearing about fact checking, machine learning and more Dar es Salaam is scraping and cleaning data Abuja and Lagos are learning advanced spreadsheet techniques Worth a read:
Hello, hacks and hackers! John Wihbey, a journalism professor at Northeastern University, surveyed journalists for his new book The Social Fact: News and Knowledge in a Networked World, where he explores how “the structure of news, information, and knowledge and their flow through society are changing.”
twttr.widgets.createTweet( '1124698656735731713', document.getElementById('tweet-container-1124698656735731713'), ); In this write-up in NiemanLab, he found that most journalists thought it was “very important” to be able to interpret statistics from sources and research studies.
Welcome to May, hacks and hackers! PyCon Africa is a new conference happening this August in Ghana, and they’re currently looking for workshop and presentation submissions that cover topics like data, web/dev ops and general Python.
twttr.widgets.createTweet( '1121066939714088962', document.getElementById('tweet-container-1121066939714088962'), ); Submit your proposals here by June 1, and apply for financial assistant to attend the conference here by June 10.
Happening this week:
New Orleans is getting public records Montreal is talking tech at the pub North East England is learning how YouTube broke everything Worth a read:
Hello, hacks and hackers! The DADI Foundation is conducting research into how technology affects democracy, and it’s looking for submissions of case studies for projects that use tech for democracy from around the world.
twttr.widgets.createTweet( '1111583993294659584', document.getElementById('tweet-container-1111583993294659584'), ); Find out more info about what they’re looking for here. And look out for our monthly global call happening Wednesday, May 1:
Happening this week:
New Orleans is talking about nonprofit news Worth a read:
Happy early Earth day, hacks and hackers! Chapters on four different continents are holding meetups this week, covering topics like open data, space technology and the IoT.
twttr.widgets.createTweet( '1116511058888232965', document.getElementById('tweet-container-1116511058888232965'), ); In addition, the LA Times is hiring for over a dozen news nerd jobs! To find the full list of jobs they’re hiring for or find other news nerd jobs, scroll down to check the job openings section.
Hello, hacks and hackers! With the amount of technology involved in journalism growing, many newsrooms hire product managers to develop internal news products. The Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas is offering a course on teaching ‘Product Management for Newsroom Leaders’ this spring.
twttr.widgets.createTweet( '1116747809355489281', document.getElementById('tweet-container-1116747809355489281'), ); The course is open to all newsroom leaders and will run from April 29 to May 26.
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Greetings, hacks and hackers! The International Journalism Festival happened this weekend in Perugia, Italy, and if you weren’t able to be there, the #IFJ19 tweeters have you covered.
twttr.widgets.createTweet( '1113688849945776128', document.getElementById('tweet-container-1113688849945776128'), ); It also saw the launch of datajournalism.com, which offers members The Data Journalism Handbook, 1Password, DIFFBOT and a host of other tools.
Happening this week:
Austin is pre-gaming the ISOJ conference Montreal is hanging out at the pub Buenos Aires is reinventing election coverage Worth a read:
Hello, hacks and hackers! OpenNews opened a new round of scholarships focusing on journalism & tech events from April through September.
twttr.widgets.createTweet( '1110585837605937153', document.getElementById('tweet-container-1110585837605937153'), ); The scholarships cover the cost of registration plus an extra $500 USD for travel. Apply by Friday!
Also look out for our monthly global call happening Wednesday, April 3:
Worth a read:
According to a Pew Research Center survey, 71 percent of Americans believe local news media is doing well financially and only 14 percent have directly paid for local news (Pew Research Center) Choosing whether or not to use machine-learning in journalism is both a technical and ethical decision, find out what the benefits and challenges are in this GIJN writeup (GIJN) Python is one of the most popular languages used by data journalists, and this diagram maps out 50 of the most popular Python libraries for data science and explains how they’re used (IBM) twttr.
Hello, hacks and hackers! You have a couple more weeks to submit your projects for the Data Journalism Awards this year.
twttr.widgets.createTweet( '1108435284851490817', document.getElementById('tweet-container-1108435284851490817'), ); Also, the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) launched a new survey to expand on its 2017 study on the State of Technology in Global Newsrooms. The survey is available in 14 languages and more information can be found here.
The week ahead:
Happy St. Patrick’s Day, hacks and hackers. Hacks/Hackers London has a new YouTube channel, where you can watch presentations if you couldn’t make it out to their meetups:
twttr.widgets.createTweet( '1105915253534179328', document.getElementById('tweet-container-1105915253534179328'), ); If you’ve got news from your own chapter, or anything else you’d like to share, please get in touch.
The week ahead:
Abuja is gathering data Worth a read:
Seven winning projects will receive grants of $750,000 from the AI and Open News Challenge (AI Ethics Initiative) this year The Knight Center is holding a free online course for journalists later this month on navigating misinformation (Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas) GIJN created two new comprehensive global guides on resources for women journalists and on audience engagement (GIJN) twttr.