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MisinfoCon and MozFest are here

Hello, hacks and hackers! Our partners at MisinfoCon are holding their first event since early 2020.

It's part of MozFest Plaza, which is itself part of MozFest 2022. It's still not too late to join them online.

Worth a read:

Creating a diverse and inclusive environment in your news organization extends beyond the newsroom. This writeup from Nieman Lab talks about how to incorporate inclusive audience engagement into a newsroom workflow.
Explanation algorithms can be used on a dataset to explain why a certain column changed over time, and here’s an intro on what they are and how to use them.
Scientific American explored how the pandemic changed the world and unevenly affected communities through a variety of datasets - from cigarette sales to life expectancy rates to energy consumption.

Upcoming events:

March 7-11, Online, MisinfoCon @ MozFest Plaza
March 7-10, Online, MozFest
March 10-11, Online, News Product Alliance Summit
March 17-19, Tunis, Tunisia, Assises Internationales du Journalisme
March 18-19, Online/Boston, US, The Power of Narrative Conference
March 31, Online, ONA Career Day
April 1-2, Austin, US, International Symposium on Online Journalism
April 1-3, Tønsberg, Norway, SKUP Conference
April 6-10, Perugia, Italy, International Journalism Festival
April 7, Perugia, Italy, MisinfoCon @ IJF
May 19-20, Chicago, US, Collaborative Journalism Summit
May 19-22, Mechelen, Belgium, Dataharvest
June 6-10, Online, RightsCon
June 20-21, Bonn, Germany, DW Global Media Forum
June 22-23, Minneapolis, US, SRCCON
June 22-25, Oslo, Norway, Global Fact Conference
June 23-26, Denver, US, IRE
June 27-30, Honolulu, US, EWC International Media Conference
June 27-July 1, Medellín, Colombia, World Conference of Science Journalists
July 8-13, Shanghai, China, World Journalism Education Congress
July 15-17, Couthures-sur-Garonne, France, Festival International de Journalisme

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