Hacking public transit with HackDash
Greetings, hacks and hackers. A lot of the suggested reads this week follow the same trends as last week: cybersecurity and privacy, fake news and press freedom. On the plus side, there’s a veritable deluge of journalism job postings this week, from San Francisco to Hong Kong to Johannesburg.
The week ahead:
Group spotlight:
Mendoza organized a ‘transportatón‘ last week, hacking solutions for sustainable transportation in Argentina, offering an enticing 20,000 pesos to the winning team to develop their project
The group used HackDash, a tool created by the Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires team to organize hackthons. It’s the only tool of its kind and was designed to fill a need that the HHBA Media Party made clear. The Buenos Aires team makes it clear HackDash is an open source project and available for anyone who wants to use it for a hackathon or other event.
Worth a read:
- Die Welt in Germany created an analytics ‘score’ to assign to articles, taking into account things like time spent and social media shares (journalism.co.uk)
- The NYT tracked a case study of some false information going viral and political (NYTimes)
- Facebook created a tool that lets governments censor content by location in order to break into the China user market (NYTimes)
- Privacy and security are trending again, as they often are these days, and freeCodeCamp offered a one-hour walkthrough of how to enable basic encryption features (Medium)
Job openings:
- Africa:
- The South African National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) is looking for a new executive director
- Europe:
- Wired Magazine is hiring an editor in London
- North America:
- Chicago Tribune is hiring for a programmer/data reporter
- Pace University is looking for someone to teach digital journalism
- DNAinfo is hiring a newsroom developer
- Reveal has an opening for a web developer
- Columbia University has an opening for a journalism professor (via IRE)
- St Louis Public Radio is hiring an editor (via INN)
- Adweek is hiring a director of engineering
- Vox has an opening for a storytelling front-end engineer
- Journalism 360, a network of immersive journalism practitioners, is looking for a managing editor
- WNYC is hiring for a director of digital techology (via NewsNerdery)
- IRE is looking for a director of data services
- Asia:
- TIME has an opening for an associate editor for audience engagement in Hong Kong
- South China Morning Post is hiring a front-end web developer
Upcoming events:
- December:
- Dec 1-4 – Panama City, Panama – the International Anti-Corruption Conference
- Dec 2-3 – Dead Sea, Jordan – the Arab Investigative Journalism Conference
- Dec 3 – Mexico City, Mexico – Periodista de a Pie is offering a one-day workshop on Google tools training
- Dec 5-6 – San Francisco, USA – Mobile Innovation Summit
- January:
- Jan 21 – Berlin, Germany – “Hashtag, High Tech, Hackmac” data journalism day**
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