Hacks/Hackers tests pilot program promoting diversity

Hello, hacks and hackers! MozFest is turning 10 this year, and they just opened their call for session proposals. The conference will take place October in London. Submit your proposals here by August 1.

In other news, Hacks/Hackers is launching a new pilot program. We want to see more diversity at the center of journalism and technology, and are looking for partners who could arrange conference travel, small fellowships, outreach, or any number of other projects that encourage diversity.

You can find the application here, so please let other orgs know. Reach out to us with any questions about the program.

Happening this week:

• Montreal is doing their monthly pub meetup
• Kuala Lumpur is talking about innovative storytelling

Worth a read:

• GIJN’s newest guide is on how to track planes around the world and gives tips on how to use that data for reporting (GIJN)
• The Knight Foundation and Gallup have been collaborating for the past couple years on their Trust, Media and Democracy Initiative, and just released a podcast called Out of the Echo Chamber: Rebuilding Trust in News to talk about their ongoing research (Knight Foundation & Gallup)
• ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer, a searchable database of Form 990 documents, now has the ability to search not only by people or organization, but also the full text of the document itself (ProPublica)

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