Samantha Sunne

Happy Sunday, hacks and hackers! We have our global call coming up this week, so if you want to hear about local event funding, MisinfoCon events and other H/H happenings, tune in here: The week ahead: * Abuja and Lagos are organizing meetups * Johannesburg is messing with treasury data * Bogota

Welcome to February, hacks and hackers! Typically, the first newsletter of the month is where we  announce the global planning call, but this month we're pushing it back to the following week. We'll see you Wednesday, February 14th at the usual time: Worth a read: * A

Hey, hacks and hackers! You may notice a few events in the week ahead are involved in the fight against misinformation. That's because H/H is offering small grants to local groups who want to do a misinformation-related event. There is still a hefty pile of money in

Greetings, hacks and hackers! We have a plethora of new opportunities for you this week, including: * Fact Forward, a funding program for innovative fact-checking projects * a Tunisia-based prize for media entrepreneurship * OpenNews' ticket+travel scholarship for travel to journalism- and tech-related events Some of those have applications due soon.

Hope your 2018 is getting off to a good start, hacks and hackers. Last year saw the addition of seven new groups to the Hacks/Hackers family: Casablanca, Yaounde, Abuja, Havana, Kuala Lumpur, Quito and South Wales x South West. We want to see even more new groups next year.

Welcome to 2018, hacks and hackers. We've updated the Groups page with a few new groups: Yaounde, Cameroon, and Abuja, Nigeria, and have a few more in the works. Welcome! Worth a read: * Just one more 2017 roundup: Journalist's Resource put together a review of the