It’s here, hacks and hackers: an endless list of best-ofs, top performers and other superlatives for 2018. What’s the best thing you worked on this year? We’ll share it in the next H/H edition.
And don’t forget we’ve got our first monthly call coming up in a few days:
Worth a read:
Descript, Privacy Badger, Google’s new Dataset Search and the other top tools Poynter found this year (Poynter) Mergers, readers and the “Trump bump”: 18 lessons in newsonomics from NiemanLab Crazy Rich Asians, outerspace, travel visas and other things you can learn about in GIJN’s Best 25 Data Visualizations of 2018 twttr.
Happy holidays, hacks and hackers! If you’re looking for new opportunities in the new year, check out opportunities for following the money, reporting on climate change, learning about agricultural issues, completing an artists’ residency, covering political development, and other programs from HackPack.
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After almost 10 years of free, embeddable interactives, Google is ending Fusion Tables at the end of next year (Computer World) GIJN rounded up the most popular tweets from 2018 using the #ddj data journalism hashtag.
Hello there, hacks and hackers! The holidays are coming up, but H/H chapters aren’t slowing down:
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Happening this week:
Singapore is making maps IRE is having its regular lab Austin is holding a holiday happy hour Worth a read:
GIJN compiled a list of databases and resources to help reporters find information on corporations around the world (GIJN) Google is stepping into the voice-driven news app game with a Google News app that uses Google Assistant technology to give personalized news briefings (NiemanLab) Is there a link between firefighters and cancer?
Welcome back, hacks and hackers! We’re pleased to announce the first MisinfoConX in Scotland:
MisinfoConX is a series of local, community-focused conferences aiming to combat misinformation in communities around the world. The first will take place in Stirling next month, and early bird tickets are available now.
Worth a read:
The AI and the News Open Challenge announced 66 finalists last week check out the finalists’ project proposals to see what the future holds for AI and journalism (AI Ethics Initiative) According to a Pew Research Center survey published last week, 34 percent of Americans now prefer to get their news from the Web, up from 28 percent in 2016 (Pew Research Center) An ICIJ collaborative investigation brought 11 Latin American media outlets together to report on regulations in the global medical device industry (Knight Center) twttr.
Happy December, hacks and hackers! The last monthly call of 2018 is coming up this Wednesday. Do you have any projects you want to share, events to promote or questions for the H/H community? Join us at the details below ⬇️
Worth a read:
Catarse, a Brazilian crowdfunding platform, is creating a fund to finance and promote independent journalism projects (Knight Center) Two professors at a Spanish university launched Periodista de Datos, a project that aggregated over 300 journalists in Spain and Latin America to promote data journalism collaboration (Online Journalism Blog) A Knight Foundation report looked into how political influencers add to the spread of misinformation and fake news on social media sites (Knight Foundation) twttr.
Hello, hacks and hackers! This week, Nairobi is studying open source intelligence, Quartz is adding a paywall and Uber is open sourcing geospatial analysis. Read on for the latest in data journalism and innovation:
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IRE is holding its regular open lab Brisbane is having their monthly meeting Nairobi is learning about open source intelligence Worth a read:
Organizations like Quartz and New York Magazine are adding paywalls, but how many news subscriptions are readers willing to pay for?
Media Indaba was started by Hacks/Hackers Cape Town a few years ago, and this year the conference is expanding to include multiple cities in Africa. Applications are open for day one, day two and day three of hands-on sessions focused on the media, land use and revenue generation.
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Congrats, American hacks and hackers, for making it through a much-hyped midterm election cycle! Check out Poynter’s roundup of innovative election coverage to find ideas to use in your newsroom for the 2020 elections.
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Happening this week:
Happy November, hacks and hackers! Code for Africa is hiring right now for part-time trainers to help run data journalism training activities across eight countries. If you know anyone, tell them to check out the post and apply here.
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Welcome back from MozFest and MisinfoCon, hacks and hackers! A lot of job postings went up this week: scroll down to find links to jobs in Singapore, Qatar, Russia, the UK and US.
twttr.widgets.createTweet( '1053822908366184450', document.getElementById('tweet-container-1053822908366184450'), ); There are also a few days left to apply for The Lenfest Institute’s collaboration grants, which award up to $25k each to bring Philadelphia-area organizations together for a news project.