Investigative journalists gather in Asia, Africa, Middle East

Welcome to October, hacks and hackers! The Investigating Asia conference took place in Kathmandu last week, as did digital journalism convenings on practically every other continent.

While we’re still digesting the tips and tools from those events, investigative journalism conferences in Africa and the Middle East have already been announced for the upcoming months.

The week ahead:

• Caracas has its first event in Venezuela
• Miami is holding its regular OpenHack Miami
• IRE in Missouri is holding its weekly meeting
• Philadelphia is attending Barcamp News Innovation

Group spotlight:

Zurich took a peek at Switzerland’s brand new open data portal, opendata.swiss. Zurich has had success with holding meetups every other month or so, rather than every month. “It’s good to know some dates in advance so you can tease the next meetup at the current one,” organizer Timo Grossenbacher said.

“Do less better” is a tip that other organizers have offered before. Check out the guide on the Hacks/Hackers website.

Worth a read:

• GIJN released a swath of tutorials and tipsheets from the Investigating Asia conference (GIJN)
• FiveThrityEight is combining data analysis, political polls, podcasts and a live audience (CJR)
• The New York Times was balancing conflicting interests of press freedom, public interest and privacy laws when it published some of presidential candidate Donald Trump’s tax returns (Washington Post)
• NYT tech reporter Farhad Manjoo took a look at MailChimp, a startup that found success without Silicon Valley, venture capitalists or IPO hype (NYT)

Job openings:

• Middle East:
• The Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism organization is looking for a program manager
• Europe:
• Macworld and PC Advisor are looking for a reporter in London
• The Times & Sunday Times are seeking a digital design editor
• North America:
• The Las Vegas Review-Journal is seeking a data journalist
• The Wall Street Journal is hiring a “new media editor” to produce content for Snapchat
• The Boston Business Journal has an opening for a tech reporter
• The Atlantic is seeking a digital tech and product manager

Other upcoming events:

• October:
• Oct 7-9 – New York, USA – Future of Storytelling Festival
• Oct 8 – Oslo, Norway – Data SKUP conference
• Oct 13-14 – Berlin, Germany – Ada Lovelace Festival for women developers
• 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 – Madrid, Spain – Medialab-Prado’s Data Driven Journalism Production Workshop
• 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
• Oct 28-29 – Chicago and San Francisco, USA – Mobile Me & You
• Oct 28-30 – London, UK – MozFest, Mozilla’s open web conference
• November:
• Nov 3-4 – Buenos Aires, Argentina – FOPEA’s International Journalism Conference
• Nov 7-9 – Johannesburg, South Africa – African Investigative Journalism Conference
• Nov 22-23 – Covilha, Portugal – the Journalism and Mobile Devices Congress
• December:
• Dec 1-4 – Panama City, Panama – the International Anti-Corruption Conference
• Dec 2-3 – Dead Sea, Jordan – the Arab Investigative Journalism Conference

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