Announcing MisinfoCon Kiev

Big news, hacks and hackers! MisinfoCon, the event that brought together misinformation experts in London and Cambridge, is coming to Kiev, Ukraine. Sign up for the MisinfoCon mailing list to get notified when registration opens later this month.

Meanwhile, if you missed the International Journalism Conference or the International Symposium on Online Journalism this weekend, you can find videos and transcripts on their websites.

The week ahead:

• Miami and IRE are holding their regular open labs
• Johannesburg is learning about digital security
• Lagos is protecting themselves against digital attacks

Worth a read:

• The first Arab Data Journalism Conference took place last week in month. GIJN took a look at a few of the more successful, innovative projects (GIJN)
• A New York Times columnist, who said he doesn't use Facebook much, used its tool to download the data the platform had on him, and was shocked at the depth of it (NYTimes)
• News consumers may be less attentive when they're reading on mobile than when they're on desktop, according to new research in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (NiemanLab)

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