A SXSW party and a new website!

It’s finally here, hacks and hackers: the new HacksHackers.com!

We’ll be sharing some behind-the-scenes insights later on about our vision for the site, its development and the people who contributed. But for now, check out the updated directory of groups and the snazzy interactive layout.

We’re launching it just in time for the Awesomest Journalism Party Ever, Sunday at SXSW. Come say hi to our site development team from Alley Interactive.

The week ahead:

• Austin is hosting the Awesomest Journalism Party Ever at SXSW
• Boston is hacking FOIA law
• IRE in Missouri is holding its weekly open lab

Group spotlight:

Toronto is rebooting this year after taking a break for the back half of 2016. Organizer Pippin Lee said restarting can be tough as leaders get their footing and build a network.

“Consistent events help carry momentum and interest. Don’t be afraid to start with casual events (that are simpler to plan) and slowly grow them into more formal, speaker style events.”

Worth a read:

• For those of you who missed NICAR, H/H/ New York organizer Chrys Wu put together a pretty comprehensive list of talks and tutorials (Chrys Wu)
• And for those who did attend, check out Omaha organizer Matt Waite‘s guide to actually utilizing the knowledge you picked up (Matt Waite)
• Two Dutch journalists launched a company for creating hackathons, called Hackastory. They’ll be at ISOJ next month to hold a hackathon for developing accountability tools (Knight Center)

Job openings:

• Europe:
• Open Society Foundations is searching for a regional head of communications in London
• The Economist is hiring a senior editor of technology
• Australia:
• NBC is looking for a graphic designer
• North America:
• Discourse Media in Canada is looking for a data reporter
• The Leap, a publication about development and innovation, is hiring a communications director in Canada
• CNN is looking for an associate data producer in Atlanta
• Vox is hiring a platform design director
• Dallas Morning News is hiring a data and news app editor
• Axios is looking for a senior graphic designer
• Houston Business Journal is hiring a data reporter
• Latin America:
• BBC is hiring multimedia producers in Brazil
• Middle East:
• Al Jazeera is looking for a digital producer in Qatar

Upcoming events:

• March:
• 10-11 – Milan, Italy – Visualized Milan
• 10-16 – Austin, USA – SXSW Interactive Festival
• 12 – Austin, USA – The Hacks/Hackers-produced Awesomest Journalism Party Ever at SXSW
• 15-16 – London, UK – The Guardian Changing Media Summit
• 23 – Miami, USA – Journalists & Editors workshop on Mobile Media Culture in the Americas
• 29-31 – Brussels, Belgium – RightsCon for a freer Internet
• 31 – Boston, USA – Conversations: Creating new frameworks for public discourse
• 31-1 – Tonsberg, Norway – SKUP conference for investigative reporters and editors in Norway
• April:
• 5-9 – Perugia, Italy – International Journalism Festival
• 15-16 – Austin, USA – International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ)
• 24-25 – Boston, USA – OpenVis Conf
• May:
• 1-4 – Jakarta, Indonesia – UNESCO’s conference for World Press Freedom Day
• 4-6 – Galway, Ireland – MoJoCon Mobile Journalism Conference
• 15-20 – San Salvador, El Salvador – Forum for Central American Journalism
• 18-20 – Hamburg, Germany – International Press Institute World Congress on media freedom in the digital age
• 18-21 – Mechelen, Belgium – Dataharvest, the European Investigative Journalism Conference
• June:
• 15-18 – Detroit, USA – Allied Media Conference
• 20-23 – Portland, OR, USA – Open Source Bridge
• 22-25 – Phoenix, USA – Investigative Reporters & Editors IRE Conference