Coming soon - the Media Party, Computation+Journalism Symposium and other events

Welcome to September, hacks and hackers! We've got half a dozen events lined up this month that may be of interest to news nerds. Top of the list is the Media Party in Buenos Aires, Hacks/Hackers' biggest event:

The Computation+Journalism Symposium, which takes place in October, announced its lineup of speakers, and recommends arranging travel and accommodation now:

And don't forget the Hacks/Hackers global planning call next Wednesday. We'll be going over some funding and event plans, so feel free to join in if you'd like. You can find the agenda here.

The week ahead:

• Hacks/Hackers is holding its monthly open call
• IRE is holding its regular weekly lab
• Venice is discussing a new creativity tool for journalists

Worth a read:

• How YouTube perfected the art of sucking you in to another video (Verge)
• Argentina's oldest English-language newspaper has published its last issue, but there's a new publication dedicated to coverage of media business models (Knight Center)
• An alliance of German media publishers is seeing concrete steps: the formation of a single login platform for all the sites in the union (Digiday)

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