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MisinfoCon starts today

Happy Friday, hacks and hackers! We hope to see you this weekend at MisinfoCon or next week at NICAR. If not, you can follow along at #MisinfoCon and #NICAR17.

In the meantime, Billy Penn and the Knight Foundation are putting together a mobile journalism playbook and they’d like your input. Billy Penn audience development manager Angie Nassar said it will be a practical guide for journalists, including tools, tips and best practices.

“We’re looking for people from newsrooms everywhere to interview. We want to find out what’s working for you, what’s not, and how we can learn from each other.”

Send Angie an email if you’d like to contribute.

The week ahead:

Group spotlight:

Instead of zooming in on a local group, we’re going to give the Hacks/Hackers global team a little sunshine this week. Jenny 8 Lee and Phillip Smith put together a doozy of a conference this weekend, and Phillip has been compiling suggested reading for weeks.

Samantha Sunne and Burt Herman will be hosting the regular global open call next week, on Wednesday at 4pm GMT (look up your local time here). Samantha will also be at NICAR hosting a lunch for local organizers. Show the global team some love and say hi at any of these events!

Worth a read:

  • BuzzFeed released an experimental tool to help readers read outside their bubble. You can try out the tool in action on this article about Twitter harassment. (BuzzFeed)
  • Western outlets universally struggle to get their content to readers in countries with state-sponsored censorship. BBC Persian is using Instagram and Telegram, two of the few social media networks allowed in Iran. (NiemanLab)
  • In the US, the Sunlight Foundation is tracking reports of government agencies being silenced on the Internet or for communication with journalists (Poynter)
  • The Data Driven Journalism blog released a study of the winners of GEN’s Data Journalism Awards, finding what elements make the best data story.

Job openings:

Upcoming events:

  • February:
  • 24-26 – Boston, USA – MisinfoCon, a summit on misinformation
  • March:
  • 2-5 – Jacksonville, USA – National Institute of Computer-Assisted Reporting (NICAR) conference
  • 10-11 – Milan, Italy – Visualized Milan
  • 10-16 – Austin, USA – SXSW Interactive Festival
  • 12 – Austin, USA – The Hacks/Hackers-produced Awesomest Journalism Party Ever at SXSW
  • 15-16 – London, UK – The Guardian Changing Media Summit
  • 23 – Miami, USA – Journalists & Editors workshop on Mobile Media Culture in the Americas
  • 29-31 – Brussels, Belgium – RightsCon for a freer Internet
  • 31-1 – Tonsberg, Norway – SKUP conference for investigative reporters and editors in Norway
  • April:
  • 5-9 – Perugia, Italy – International Journalism Festival
  • 15-16 – Austin, USA – International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ)
  • May:
  • 1-4 – Jakarta, Indonesia – UNESCO’s conference for World Press Freedom Day
  • 4-6 – Galway, Ireland – MoJoCon Mobile Journalism Conference
  • 15-20 – San Salvador, El Salvador – Forum for Central American Journalism
  • 18-20 – Hamburg, Germany – International Press Institute World Congress on media freedom in the digital age
  • 18-21 – Mechelen, Belgium – Dataharvest, the European Investigative Journalism Conference

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