MisinfoCon will be at DefCon
For the first time, Hacks/Hackers' partner organization MisinfoCon will be at the hacker conference DefCon!
DefCon will take place from August 11-14 at Caesar's Forum in Las Vegas. Hotels fill up early, so if you're thinking of attending, consider booking ahead.
Worth a read:
- GIJN wrote a tip guide on how to investigate cryptocurrencies, including a glossary of terms, resources for tracking big transactions and how to follow the blockchain money trail.
- A software engineer created a Pinterest-esque board of over 100 of their favorite data visualizations to use as inspiration, with a companion guide From Data to Viz that goes over best practices, different chart styles and example code for them.
- Factchequeado is a new service journalism project to combat misinformation in Spanish-speaking communities in the US by partnering with publications to re-publish their fact checks and explainers in Spanish.
Job postings:
- Anywhere - Temporary Programmer
- Anywhere - Mongabay, Fellowship Editor
- Africa - Reuters, East Africa Deputy Bureau Chief
- Africa - Rest of World, Regional Editor
- Canada - Corus Entertainment, Audience Analyst/Product Development
- UK - The Guardian, Deputy Investigations Editor
- UK - The Guardian, Investigations Correspondent
- US - American Press Institute, Editorial Manager
- US - Associated Press, Interactive News Editor
- US - Denver Business Journal, Data Reporter
- US - FiveThirtyEight, Part-Time Research Assistant
- US - The Hechinger Report, Data Reporter
- US - National Journal, Web Developer
- US - National Journal, Sr. Web Developer
- US - Penske Media, Digital Data Analyst
- US - ProPublica, Interactive Story Designer
- US - Tiny News Collective, Director of Technology
Upcoming events:
- May 19-20, Chicago, US, Collaborative Journalism Summit
- May 19-22, Mechelen, Belgium, Dataharvest
- June 6-10, Online, RightsCon
- June 13, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, MisinfoCon Brasil
- June 20-21, Bonn, Germany, DW Global Media Forum
- June 22-24, 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
- August 11-14, Las Vegas, US, MisinfoCon at DefCon
- August 25-27, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Hacks/Hackers Media Party
