Anika Gupta joins the Hacks/Hackers board

We are excited to announce that Anika Gupta is joining the Hacks/Hackers Board of Directors!

Anika launched Hacks/Hackers India in 2012, where she worked as a journalist in New Delhi. She wrote a book about online communities, "How to Handle a Crowd," and currently works as a business and product strategy consultant for news and social media startups. You can follow her on Twitter at @DigitalAnika.

Worth a read:

  • The Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri is holding an in-person fall symposium from November 3-4 to bring together 30 community-centered journalists to brainstorm, build and collaborate together across newsrooms. The program will provide travel, lodging, food and more for accepted attendees, find out more and apply here.
  • The Fix is an online trade magazine for media professionals, and it publishes a newsletter on media topics. This month’s special edition newsletter is focused on audience engagement and includes articles on how to curate communities through social media groups, tactics for growing a podcast audience and more.
  • Angie Drobnic Holan, PolitiFact’s editor in chief, interviewed two journalist-turned-professors who curate academic research related to the media industry to find out what patterns are emerging in research and how they could help current journalists.

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