The Hacks Hackers Media Party is back on!
Great news, hacks and hackers! The Buenos Aires Media Party is back in person for its 10th edition!
The beloved media gathering will take place August 25-27 in Argentina, and applications are open for travel support.
Worth a read:
- This data viz designer charted out how much time he spent on each component in a variety of data viz projects over 1,550 hours from October 2020 thru February 2022 to be able to give better estimates to clients on how long projects might take.
- Telegram is a global messaging and social media app, and one of the few that’s still available to use in Russia, so GIJN created a guide on how journalists can utilize Telegram for reporting.
- Researchers from the Indiana University Observatory on Social Media explain why Twitter bot accounts are harmful and how it’s near impossible to accurately estimate how many there are on the site.
Job postings:
- Anywhere - Infosecurity Magazine, Freelance Infosec Writers
- Anywhere - MuckRock, Back End Developer
- Anywhere - MuckRock, Front End Developer
- Anywhere - Rest of World, Fact Checker
- Canada - Global News & Radio, Web Developer
- UK - News UK, Deputy SEO Editor
- UK - News UK, SEO Journalist
- UK - OpenDemocracy, Digital Marketing Manager
- US - Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Data Journalist
- US - El Tímpano, Social Media Strategist
- US - Hechinger Report, Data Reporter
- US - ProPublica, Interactive Story Designer
- US - Thomson Reuters, Data Visualization Developer
- US - USA Today, Database Reporter
- US - Wall Street Journal, Graphics Reporter
- US - WIRED, Associate Manager, Audience Development
Upcoming events:
- June 6-10, Online, RightsCon
- June 13, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, MisinfoCon Brasil
- June 16, Online, Virtual Workshop for Adobe’s CAI Open-Source Tools
- June 20-21, Bonn, Germany, DW Global Media Forum
- June 22-24, Minneapolis, US, SRCCON
- June 22-25, Oslo, Norway, Global Fact Conference
- June 23-26, Denver, US, IRE
- June 27-30, Honolulu, US, EWC International Media Conference
- June 27-July 1, Medellín, Colombia, World Conference of Science Journalists
- July 8-13, Shanghai, China, World Journalism Education Congress
- July 15-17, Couthures-sur-Garonne, France, Festival International de Journalisme
- August 11-14, Las Vegas, US, MisinfoCon at DefCon
- August 25-27, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Hacks/Hackers Media Party
