Introducing Hacks/Hackers Seoul
Hey everyone, please welcome the newest branch of the Hacks/Hackers family: Seoul just opened a chapter in conjunction with Data Journalism Korea.
They had their first event on Friday and are taking new members on their Meetup group.
Worth a read:
- Slack, a communication app that many newsrooms and tech teams have relied on for the past few years, just became a publicly traded company (Nieman Lab)
- The New York Times created a publicly available data boot camp to teach its reporters some data journalism basics like navigating spreadsheets, analyzing data and translating the findings into impactful stories (The New York Times)
- Jeremie Harris, the co-founder of a startup geared at mentoring data scientists, compiled a checklist of necessary skills data scientists need to know to be able to land jobs, which comes in handy for data journalists too (Towards Data Science)
Upcoming events:
Job openings:
| Location | Employer | Opening |
|---|---|---|
| Anywhere | The New Humanitarian | Audience Engagement Editor |
| China | South China Morning Post | Full Stack Web Developer |
| China | South China Morning Post | Front End Web Developer |
| China | South China Morning Post | Lead Web Developer |
| US | ABC | Data Journalism Fellow |
| US | Axios | Head of Back-End Engineering |
| US | Boston Globe | Data Journalist |
| US | FiveThirtyEight | Visual Journalist |
| US | NPR | UX Research Intern |
| US | The Philadelphia Inquirer | Senior Product Designer |
| US | theSkimm | Senior Product Manager |
| US | Wired | Designer |
Other opportunities:
