Hacks/Hackers Connect Brussels is coming up next week

Hacks/Hackers Connect Brussels is almost upon us! You still have a few days to register, so spread the word! We’re excited to hold our third Connect event in Europe and to host a session on Google’s Digital News Initiative. It will take place the day the second round of applications open, June 2nd.

Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires also announced the dates for this year’s #HHBA Media Party:

The week ahead:

• Uruguay is holdings its third DataCampUY
• Miami and IRE are holding their regular weekly open labs
• Toronto is hearing from Catherine Gicheru of Code for Kenya
• Miami is partnering with Code for Miami for #HackForChange
• Brussels is hosting the seventh Hacks/Hackers Connect
• Buenos Aires is discussing journalism in the era of leaks

Group spotlight:

It’s been more than a month since ICIJ released the #PanamaPapers, but Hacks/Hackers groups from France to Poland to Kenya have been dissecting the story and massive data leak. Last week, Munich and Berlin took the plunge.

ICIJ joined the data with the Offshore Leaks data, another monumental leak, to create a massive database of leaked documents that would have relevance in almost every country in the world.

Worth a read:

• Twitter announced you will soon be able to get more bang for your 140 characters (Twitter)
• 18F’s Jacob Harris dug up ASCII art from the post-Civil War era (Atlantic)
• The New York Times announced some large changes, pulling it even farther away from its print roots (Poynter)
• Poynter went on to write about how these changes can indicate a blueprint for other legacy newspapers (Poynter)

Job openings:

Europe:

• The International Open Data Roadmap is looking for a Spanish-speaking coordinator for its next conference in Spain
• The Times and Sunday Times are looking for a data journalist
• Which, a consumer magazine in London, is hiring a data journalist

North America:

• The Coral Project is looking for an integration engineer
• The Chronicle of Higher Education is looking for a data editor
• The Sunlight Foundation in Washington, D.C., is looking for an analytics specialist
• Kaiser Health News is hiring a data journalist

Africa:

• AidInfoPlus, a nonprofit covering international aid, is searching for data search specialists
• Africa Check is seeking a journalist and researcher

Other upcoming events:

• June 1 – Philadelphia and San Francisco, USA – The Solutions Journalism Network Hub launch events
• June 3-5 – Mechelen, Belgium – Dataharvest, the European Investigative Journalism Conference
• June 9 – New York, USA – Launch event for The Solutions Journalism Network Hub
• June 16-19 – New Orleans, USA – Investigative Reporters and Editors conference