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Dozens of Hacks/Hackers jobs open up in the first weeks of 2017

It’s a new year, hacks and hackers, and newsrooms seem to be ushering in the new: more than two dozen job openings were posted since our last newsletter, ranging from Research Professor to Motion Graphics Editor. The Washington Post alone named eight new openings on its new rapid-response investigations team.

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San Francisco – the original Hacks/Hackers group – has held nearly five dozen events since 2009, when it was first founded. This year they’ve collaborated often with other Bay Area interest groups, like the Solutions Journalism Network and the Brown Institute for Media Innovation.

Ryan Singel, one of the current organizers, said he was surprised by how much luck he has had searching for a partner or venue with a good old-fashioned social media call. For a recent event, he said,

“I couldn’t find any room in our usual spots, so tweeted out that we needed a space and what the topic was. That landed us an invite from a local security company called OpenDNS, which also then bought pizza and drinks for the get-together. This won’t always work, but a tweet is free, so worth a shot.”

Worth a read:

  • The Boston Globe is finding success engaging with readers in a Facebook group just for subscribers, rather than its Facebook page at large (NiemanLab)
  • The Chicago Reporter used tools built by other journalists, like Tarbell and the Django Boundary Service, to do its enormous project on police misconduct (Source)
  • Media columnist Margaret Sullivan called for journalists to stop using the term “fake news” and instead use more specific terms (Washington Post)

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