Hacks/Hackers Connect spreads across the southern United States
Connect Austin went off with a bang yesterday, and Miami is already in full swing getting ready for Connect Miami coming up in one month. If you or someone you know is interested in learning about media startups in Florida, send us your info here!
The week ahead:
- Venice is hosting the makers of media projects Media Vox Pop and Formicablu
- Miami is holding its regular OpenHack Miami
- IRE is also holding its regular open lab in mid-Missouri
Group spotlight:
Austin held a special one-day Connect event on Thursday, featuring entrepreneur extraordinaire Ash Maurya.
Miami is prepping for its own event in May (register for details here!), just after holding a Media Party last week:
https://vimeo.com/162606474
And our partners at Google News Lab released their own video, of the Connect event in NYC several weeks ago:
Worth a read:
- Digital media companies like BuzzFeed and Mashable have cut more than 1,000 jobs in the last year (BuzzFeed)
- The Guardian commissioned a study on 70 million comments left on its website, and found their most abused writers were either women or minorities (Guardian)
- A rural Kansas farm has received innumerable threats and censures over the years, due to its IP address being located almost in the center of the United States (Fusion)
- A private analytics company found that Twitter may be far less of a driver of traffic for news sites than people think (Nieman Lab)
Job openings:
- Africa:
- impactAFRICA is accepting applications for funding for data-driven storytelling through April 15
- This is Africa has openings for three associate editors and four summer interns
- North America:
- Dow Jones in New York has openings for a graphics editor, financial visual editor, and features visual editor
- The NYT has four open positions on its Interactive News desk
- KPCC, a public radio station in California, is looking for an audio software engineer and a dev/ops engineer
- Cox Media Group in Ohio is looking for a graphics specialist
- The Cannabist, a marijuana-focused publication run by The Denver Post, is hiring a data journalist
- Europe:
- The Times is hiring a newsroom developer for its team in London
- Thomson Reuters Lab is looking for a data viz specialist in London
- Asia:
- An investigative documentary being produced in the U.S. is seeking a producer who is fluent in Korean
- The Cambodia Daily is hiring a managing editor
- Middle East:
- News Deeply is hiring an editor in Beirut
