Hacks/Hackers raise a glass at ONA; Connect Toronto hits capacity

The Online Journalism Association held its yearly conference this weekend in Denver, Colorado, and Hacks/Hackers was there to celebrate. Abigail Edge has managed to drum up significant interest – including sponsors! – for the relatively new Colorado chapter by holding happy hours during national events like NICAR.

The week ahead:

• London is discussing “interactive imagery” for its September meetup
• Birmingham is hosting a series of lightning talks
• Miami is holding its regular OpenHack Miami
• IRE in Missouri is holding its weekly meeting

Group spotlight:

We’ve spot-lit London before, because they churn out mini-conferences in the time it takes a lot of meetup groups plan a happy hour. In the last year or so, they’ve started transitioning away from Meetup to Eventbrite, to better handle their more than 4,000 members and 200 monthly attendees.

“We’re also overhauling our monthly meetups – changing our focus from growing the number of attendees to securing higher-quality speakers on interesting and controversial topics,” Joanna Geary wrote. “We are also doing extensive work to change how we organise and communicate between ourselves and with our community.”

London is featuring an “interactive imagery specialist” for its September meetup this week. You can follow their exploits at #HHldn.

Worth a read:

• Cosmopolitan reporter Prachi Gupta made an impact in journalism circles this week for asking a source basic questions (Cosmopolitan)
• The NYT public editor’s latest piece has sparked a new discussion on “false equivalence” in journalism ethics (Talking Points Memo)
• For the first time this election year, media outlets may be calling wins before the majority of polls have closed (NYT)
• The Pew Research Center released new findings on the state of digital news, including that most U.S. adults happen upon news stories, rather than seek them out (Pew)

Job openings:

• Africa:
• The Committee to Protect Journalists is hiring a research associate for its Africa program
• Code for Africa has an opening for a communty & knowledge lead in Nairobi
• Europe:
• The Independent is seeking a technology reporter
• Politico is hiring a data analyst in Brussels
• North America:
• The Marshall Project is looking for an editorial designer
• The San Antonio Express-News has an opening for a tech reporter
• Recode is hiring someone to cover Google’s AI projects
• WSJ has an opening for an editor “who is excited about figuring out the future of journalism”
• McClatchy is hiring a front-end news dev

Other upcoming events:

• September:
• Sept 17-20 – New Orleans, USA – Society of Professional Journalists Excellence in Journalism conference
• Sept 20-22 – Jakarta, Indonesia – Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD)
• Sept. 22 – New York, USA – NYC Media Lab Annual Summit, for executives, academics and startups to convene around future of media
• (Hacks/Hackers community members can register with a 25% off discount code: HACKSHACKER)
• Sept 22-25 – New Delhi, India – Y Combinator Startup Conference
• Sept 23-24 – Toronto, Canada – Hacks/Hackers Connect Toronto
• Sept 23-25 – Kathmandu, Nepal – Asian Investigative Journalism Conference
• Sept 28-29 – Chicago, USA – INN workshop on Tech and Product Design for News Leaders
• Sept 29-Oct 1 – Miami, USA – Digital Humanities + Data Journalism Symposium
• Sept 29-Oct 1 – Chicago, USA – Local indie online news publishers are gathering for the LION summit
• Sept 30-Oct 1 – Palo Alto, USA – Computation + Journalism Symposium
• October:
• Oct 6-8 – Washington, DC, USA – Double Exposure, an investigative film festival and symposium
• (Hacks/Hackers community members can register with a 10% off discount code: HACK10)
• Oct 7-9 – New York, USA – Future of Storytelling Festival
• Oct 14-15 – Washington, DC, USA – TransparencyCamp, the Sunlight Foundation’s unconference for open government
• Oct 17-17 – Vitoria, Brazil – Brazilian Conference of Citizen Media
• Oct 21-23 – Cape Town, South Africa – Media Party Africa, co-run by Hacks/Hackers Africa and Code for Africa
• Oct 25-27 – Casablanca, Morocco – d|bootcamp, a three-day civic hacking workshop
• November:
• Nov 7-9 – Johannesburg, South Africa – African Investigative Journalism Conference