Media Party ignites in Buenos Aires this week
Get ready, hacks and hackers: there are meetups on every continent of the world this week (not counting Antarctica). Not to mention the HHBA Media Party, the biggest Hacks/Hackers event in the world.
The Media Party will bring thousands of hackers, technologists, journalists and media leaders to determine the future of media in Latin America. If you’re attending, don’t miss the Hacks/Hackers organizers breakfast on Saturday morning.
The week ahead:
- Bogota is hacking education in Colombia with #HackealaEducacion
- Singapore is throwing a launch party for Viz.sg, a new country-wide dataviz portal
- Brisbane is taking a look at new ways to use geodata
- London is hosting its summer picnic in Regents Park
- Miami and IRE are holding their regular weekly open labs
- Buenos Aires is holding its huge annual Media Party
- Johannesburg is sponsoring another installment of #HacktheConstitution
Group spotlight:
#HacktheConstitution, a series of hackathons that started in Johannesburg in May, was named one of Africa’s most innovative tech projects by The Guardian. Serah Njambi Rono, one of the main organizers for Hacks/Hackers Africa, said timing has been important when it comes to getting people to show up or follow along from afar.
“It is important to set up meetups with the community in mind. Late evenings during the week or mid-mornings on Saturdays are pretty ace to work with – that way you get more people at the physical meetups and the rest who can’t make it are able to follow via live-tweets (since they are probably sitting in traffic or scrolling through their phones after work).”
Worth a read:
- More and more local news sites are being created in the U.S., usually founded by either veteran journalists or non-journalist community organizers (Poynter)
- NPR is the latest news org to ditch comments to focus more on social media conversations (NPR)
- Facebook keeps alarming publishers by changing its news feed algorithms, but the latest change doesn’t seem to have affected traffic (Nieman Lab)
- The Center for Investigative Reporting open-sourced its Impact Tracker for investigative news sites (journalism.co.uk)
Job openings:
- North America:
- ProPublica is hiring an engagement reporter to reach audiences during the reporting of a story
- InterNews is looking for a senior technical advisor to help them report on corruption
- The MIT Media Lab is seeking a data journalist to work on a three-month journalism project
- McClatchy newswire wants a product designer to join its Visual team in D.C.
- NBC is looking for a tech/innovation editor
- The Seattle Times is hiring a “news artist”
- New York Magazine is looking for a product manager
- The NYU journalism school is hiring a multimedia specialist
- Europe:
- China Daily has an opening for a graphic designer in London
- The Times & Sunday Times is hiring a social media editor
- Stuff, a tech and gadgets magazine in London, is looking for a staff writer
- The BBC is hiring for both a senior and junior inforgraphics and UX designer, as well as a senior and junior data scientist
- New African magazine in London is taking applications for a digital and social media intern
Other upcoming events:
- August:
- Aug 25-27 – Buenos Aires, Argentina – the Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires Media Party
- September:
- Sept 15-17 – Denver, USA – Online News Association (ONA)’s annual conference
- 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 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 30-Oct 1 – Palo Alto, USA – Computation + Journalism Symposium
- October:
- Oct 7-9, New York, USA – Future of Storytelling Festival
- Oct 17-17 – Vitoria, Brazil – Brazilian Conference of Citizen Media
