Hacks/Hackers Africa grows to more than a dozen groups
Happy Sunday, hacks and hackers! It's going to be a full week for H/H groups, with meetups taking place from Rosario to Brisbane.
Plus let's give a warm welcome to Abuja, the newest group in the Hacks/Hackers Africa family! They held their first event Thursday in Ventures Park Abuja in Nigeria.
The week ahead:
- Montreal is talking UX and UI
- Austin is hearing from Conde Nast
- Buenos Aires is holding a meeting for volunteers ahead of the upcoming Media Party
- Brisbane is hearing from Google News Lab
- Rio de Janeiro is hosting a fake news hackathon
- IRE is holding its regular weekly open lab
- Rosario is discussing Internet security
Worth a read:
- Attempts by German media companies to make ad blockers illegal have not won support in the courts (ZDNet)
- "Pivoting to video" is a common phrase heard from publishers these days, and Peter Kafka thinks the 20th century's rise of TV is why (Recode)
- The team at OpenNews put together a tipsheet from SRC CON on best practices for training your newsroom (OpenNews)
Job openings:
| Location | Employer | Opening |
|---|---|---|
| Anywhere | Thomson Reuters Foundation | Wealth of Nations editor |
| Belgium | Politico | Tech editor |
| UK | IBT | Digital trends reporter |
| US | News Literacy Project | Chief Operating Officer |
| US | NBC | Director of Integrated Media |
| US | NPR | Contract news app developer |
| US | Financial Times | Senior developer |
| US | Vox | News graphics designer |
Upcoming events:
| Month | Day | City | Country | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August | 31-1 | Grahamstown | South Africa | Highway Africa conference on media, accountability and local governance |
| September | 11-15 | Sao Paolo | Brazil | Social Media Week |
| September | 12-16 | Kampala | Uganda | DATA4CHAN.GE 2017 |
| September | 13-15 | Buenos Aires | Argentina | Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires Media Party |
| September | 13-17 | TBD | Moldova | Open Data Media Lab |
| September | 14-16 | Miami | USA | Digital Humanities + Data Journalism Symposium |
| September | 25-29 | Porto Alegre | Brazil | SET Universitário communications conference |
| October | 4-5 | New York | USA | Future of Storytelling Summit |
| October | 5-7 | DC | USA | Online News Association ONA Conference |
| October | 12-13 | Columbia | USA | Revenue Models That Work |
| October | 13-14 | Evanston | USA | Computer + Journalism Symposium |
| October | 27-29 | London | UK | MozFest open web festival |
| November | 5-8 | Chicago | USA | Science of Innovation Summit for Journalists |
| November | 11-13 | Berlin | Germany | OpenCon for open access to education |
| November | 16-19 | Johannesburg | South Africa | Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC) |
| December | 7-8 | Philadelphia | USA | OpenNews' SRCCON:WORK |
Project funding:
| Deadline | Name | Organization | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rolling | MisinfoCon micro-grant | MisinfoCon | Small grants for experimental projects that fight misinformation |
| Rolling | Freelance Fund | Solutions Journalism Network | Small travel stipends for reporters working on "solutions journalism" |
| September | Uncharted grant | Uncharted Journalism Fund | Crowdfunded grants for reporting covering uncharted territory |
| September | INN Days reimbursement | INN | Travel stipends for INN member newsrooms traveling to INN Days in Phoenix |
| September | Tech in Media 2017 | Russian Venture Company | Cash prizes for innovative journalism in Russia |
| September | Visiting fellowships | Nieman Foundation | Fellowships lasting up to six weeks to research a project designed to advance journalism |
| October | Golden Stylus | Association of Innovative Regions of Russia | Cash prizes for innovative journalism projects that had an impact on society |
