Mozart and Marx

Greetings, hacks and hackers! The enormous NICAR and SXSW conferences wrapped up last week in the U.S. - not to mention the three events in London - and we're back to business. Check out Berlin's three speakers this week, or the website for more upcoming local events.

The week ahead:

• Miami and IRE are holding their regular open labs
• Berlin is learning about Mozart, Marx and a Dictator

Worth a read:

• Journalists are excited to embrace emerging technologies, but appropriate business models are slow to catch up (Fast Company)
• On the topic of business models: home assistants like Amazon's Alexa were a hot item last year. How can journalists monetize them? (NiemanLab)
• Chrys Wu, an organizer of H/H NYC, compiled a massive list of tutorials and tipsheets from the computer reporting conference that happened last week (Chrys Wu)

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