Hacks/Hackers and other groups embrace conference season

Greetings, hacks and hackers. In case you haven’t noticed, summer might as well be called conference season. Last week, Connect and Dataharvest brought journalists together in Brussels. Next up for North America, IRE comes to New Orleans, SRC CON to Portland and Connect Toronto. Let’s take a look at what individual group have been up to.

The week ahead:

• Miami and IRE are holding their regular weekly open labs
• Warsaw is holding its third meetup
• Austin will discuss UX design at the Texas Tribune
• Venice is discussing how visual journalism influences social change
• New Orleans is hosting a meet-and-greet at the IRE conference

Group spotlight:

Connect Brussels brought 60 aspiring media entrepreneurs to Europe’s capital. Check out the photo gallery, courtesy of a professional photographer, on Facebook here.

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Organizers said the event helped to revitalize the Brussels group, and Camille Pollie said she and others in Brussels will be organizing regular events for the Brussels group from here on.

“What I’ve learned is that it’s better to inspire people (in) the Hacks/Hackers community via regular events rather than organising a one-off event. We noticed that there is a big need for a more active Brussels Hacks/Hackers community. So after our event we’ve decided to resurrect the Hacks/Hackers community in Brussels and we’re trying to plan our first event.”

Worth a read:

• There is some benefit to private ownership of a newspaper, Nieman Lab found in a study of Jeff Bezos’s ownership of the Washington Post (Nieman Lab)
• The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that for the first time, more Americans work for online publishers than for newspapers (Nieman Lab)
• A middle-aged reporter tried a Snapchat-only diet of news for a week, to see how it differs from other online news (Nieman Lab)
• On a similar note, the Washington Post is using Snapchat to tell new stories from international locales (Poynter)

Job openings:

• Latin America:
• A.M. Costa Rica, an English language internet daily, is looking for a managing editor
• Asia:
• ICFJ is offering a one-year fellowship in Kazakhstan
• The South China Morning Post is seeking a technology editor
• Europe:
• Press Association Sport is seeking a data journalist to join them in East Yorkshire
• North America:
• National Geographic is hiring a digital product manager in Washington, D.C.
• The Sunlight Foundation is hiring a quantitative analyst
• Ipsos, a polling company in New York, is hiring a content specialist

Other events coming up:

• June 16-19 – New Orleans, USA – Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) conference
• June 17-18 – Berlin, Germany – Popathon, a media hackathon
• July 28-29 – Portland, Oregon, USA – SRC CON, a Mozilla conference for journalist coders
• July 29-31 – Atlanta, USA – Women Who Code hackathon