Join the global call to hear about the new website

Welcome to April, hacks and hackers! As always, a new month means a new global call:

We'll be talking about the huge rollout of the new website, including new logos!

The week ahead:

• South West x South Wales is meeting up with MySociety and the Bristol Cable
• Venice is discussing news on Facebook
• Warsaw has scheduled its fifth meetup
• Portland is starting a monthly hangout
• Seattle is discussing infosec for journalists
• IRE is holding its regular weekly lab

Group spotlight:

Boston did double-duty last week as the host of a Baseball Hack Day and a conference on new frameworks for public discourse.

Worth a read:

• The London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism is launching The Bureau Local to help build a network of local investigative journalists (NiemanLab)
• BuzzFeed got more than half its staff on board with data by encouraging them to query analytics data on their own content (Digiday)
• Investigative Reporters & Editors, which contains the largest data journalism organization in the U.S., is compiling a comprehensive index of data being mirrored and backed up by people concerned it will disappear under the Trump administration (Poynter)

Job openings:

• Europe:
• BBC is hiring a development lead for the iPlayer
• North America:
• Boston Globe is hiring a D3-fluent developer
• Politico is looking for a web producer
• Education Week is seeking a web designer
• Wirecutter is looking for an engineering manager
• Axios is hiring someone for data viz
• BuzzFeed has an opening for database manager
• Chicago Public Media is taking applications for a multimedia internship
• Pew Research Center is hiring a video and motion graphics producer
• Asia:
• South China Morning Post is seeking a digital product manager
• China Daily is looking for a web sub-editor
• BBC has an opening for a multimedia broadcast journalist
• Scroll.in is seeking an explanatory data journalist

Upcoming events: