MisinfoCon and NICAR from afar

Hello, hacks and hackers! If you missed MisinfoCon in DC this weekend, you can check out some of the takeaways on the #MisinfoCon hashtag.

And don't forget, the NICAR data journalism conference is coming up this weekend in New Orleans. You can follow that one at #NICAR20.

And don't forget you have until the end of the month to apply for a $3,000 USD prize for reporting using freedom of information.

The week ahead:

• Brisbane is holding Vision 2020 - stories of the new year
• Abuja is discussing solutions journalism

Worth a read:

• The investigative journalist's greatest foe? Funding, perhaps. In a new video series, GIJN explores ways to make deep dive reporting sustainable (GIJN)
• McClatchy, a more than 100-year-old news service, has filed for bankruptcy. But the embattered company may be better off going private than staying public, Nieman Lab's Newsonomics writes (Nieman Lab)
• The Knight Foundation committed $2 million to a new initiative to help newsrooms adopt new publishing platforms. The initiative aims to help nonprofits and newsrooms serving under-covered communities maximize their audience revenue (Knight)

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