Announcing MisinfoCon
Welcome to another Friday, hacks and hackers! We’ve got a bigger announcement than usual this week:
Several Hacks/Hackers organizers, including Jenny 8. Lee, Burt Herman and Phillip Smith, have launched an anti-fake news event called MisinfoCon in Boston. It’s coming up in one short month, so put it on your calendar and tell your colleagues.
The week ahead:
- Warsaw is holding a Q&A with some of the biggest news outlets in Poland
- New York is holding a workshop on how to build web notifications
- Brisbane is planning more events in a pub and is therefore meeting for an event aptly titled Planning in a Pub
- Portland is holding an informal brainstorming session
- Singapore is collaborating on a ‘privilege calculator’ project
- Miami and IRE are holding their regular weekly open labs
Group spotlight:
Last week, Singapore met for an event called “A Study in Moire: Code Art with D3 / Greensock.” Organizer Rebecca Pazos said the group recently committed to meet the third Monday of every month, in an attempt to organize themselves and build their community better.
“Plus for our own sanity as co-organisers it can be difficult to find the time to organise, so setting ourselves a ‘deadline’ has helped us to stay focused and not over-commit.”
Worth a read:
- A report from the American Press Institute indicates that presentation and design plays a role in how much people trust a news source (API)
- The alt-right, a growing movement in Europe, the Americas and elsewhere, is starting to splinter – in Internet form (Buzzfeed)
- The Guardian shut down its Media and Tech Network, but will continue to hold its annual Changing Media Summit (Guardian)
Job openings:
- Asia:
- Conde Nast is looking for a digital editor in Mumbai
- North America:
- Texas Tribune is hiring a backend engineer
- NBC has an opening for an interactive designer
- Poynter is accepting applications for a visual journalism fellowship
- Washington Post is looking for a designer of emerging news products
- NPR has a devops position open
- Europe:
- Financial News is looking for a tech correspondent
- BBC is searching for a principal software engineer
- Australia:
- New York Times has an opening for a graphics/multimedia editor
Upcoming events:
- January:
- 27-28 – Odense, Denmark – NODA17, the Nordic Data Journalism Conference
- 31-1 – London, UK – #newsHACK, the BBC’s transcription hackathon
- February:
- 6 – Paris, France – News Impact Summit
- 8-9 – London, UK – newsrewired
- 11-12 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Hackathon for Humanitarian Aid
- 18-19 – Tucson, USA – News Hack Arizona
- 24-26 – Boston, USA – Misinfocon, a summit on misinformation
- March:
- 2-5 – Jacksonville, USA – National Institute of Computer-Assisted Reporting (NICAR) conference
- 15-16 – London, UK – The Guardian Changing Media Summit
- 31-1 – Tonsberg, Norway – SKUP conference for investigative reporters and editors in Norway
