Samantha Sunne

Hello, hacks and hackers! The International Journalism Festival took place in person last week in Perugia, Italy. A lot of the sessions, tweets and recaps can be found on the conference website. Worth a read: * Moksha Data Studio is a new project created to help make data visualizations for government

The Google News Initiative and Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism are partnering to create The Data-Driven Reporting Project which offers financial and training support for journalists working on document-based investigative projects. The $2 million fund is open to support projects that serve local and/or underrepresented communities in

Some news, hacks and hackers! Our partner org MisinfoCon will be presenting at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy. The IJF is returning April 6 to 10 and it is free to attend in person. Happening this week: * Nairobi is virtually meeting up Worth a read: * A communications professor

Greetings, hacks and hackers! Registration is open for the AP’s free, online six week course on newsroom AI and automation. The course starts on April 13 and will include guest speakers, office hours, how-to videos and workshops to help you learn how to incorporate AI technologies into your newsroom

Greetings, hacks and hackers! NICAR, the biggest data journalism conference in the US, met for the first time in person since early 2020. You can find resources from sessions here about learning R, JavaScript, web scraping and more. Worth a read: * Project Oasis is a collaborative project from UNC, the

Welcome to another week, hacks and hackers! Bellingcat is conducting a survey to find out more about which open source tools journalists are currently using so they can better know what kinds of tools to develop moving forward. The survey takes about 10 minutes to respond, and two respondents will