Newsletter: Nov. 11, 2015 | Events in Buenos Aires, Nairobi, Paris and more | MozFest recap | Job openings | Spotlight on Singapore

A wonderful moment happened last week: Hacks/Hackers folks from all over the world met up in London at MozFest to brainstorm the future of Hacks/Hackers. They chatted about how they what Hacks/Hackers mission, structure and activities could look like in 2017. For more about the group talked about, notes are here: bit.ly/hhroots Check out all their smiling faces:

Photo by Phillip Smith.

The week ahead for Hacks/Hackers:

• In Buenos Aires, the group brings together several speakers on “cybersurveillance, big data and human rights.”
• Hacks/Hackers Miami learns about ethical hacking from FIU Professor Alexander Pons.
• Hacks/Hackers Mendoza, Argentina, takes part in a two-day event about innovation in the media.
• In Birmingham, UK, there’s a hackday about football agency data on ownership and networks.
• The Sydney group attends a networking event at the Storyology festival.
• In Nairobi, the Hacks/Hackers community gathers with Refunite and the Humanitarian Data Exchange to talk about the global refugee crisis, and how hacks and hackers within Africa can help. (Inspired by The 19 Million Project hackathon in Rome)
• The Paris group hears about three different intersections of journalists and robots: recommendations, semantic analysis and automated writing.
• Hacks/Hackers Berlin hosts an event around dealing with trolls (government and ordinary citizen trolls) and image verification.

Group spotlight:

Hacks/Hackers Singapore held an event last week where they critiqued election graphics. You can watch it on YouTube:

There are links to the graphics they discussed within the YouTube description. The group also has a nicely active Facebook page.

Job openings:

• Properati is looking for data journalists for its Mexico and Chile blogs. (Submitted by Martin Sarsale)
• Der Standard is also looking for a data journalist. (Submitted by Markus Hametner)

(Have a job opening to share? Let us know.)

Worth a read:

• Notes from the Hacks/Hackers session at MozFest: bit.ly/hhroots
• How people who don’t work in news consume their news (Melody Kramer, Poynter)
• The New York Times hopes its first virtual reality film, “The Displaced,” kicks off mass adoption of VR (Madeline Welsh, Nieman Lab)
• Guide to Chat Apps (and How to Use Them for News) (Trushar Barot and Eytan Oren, Tow Center for Digital Journalism)
• Facebook CEO defends effort to expand Internet access in developing countries (Ashok Sharma, AP)

Call to action:

What’s the best piece of data journalism you’ve seen about the refugee crisis or migration in general? Reply to this email, post it on our Facebook page, or share it on Twitter with #HHreads. We’ll collect the responses and share them in next week’s newsletter.

That’s a wrap. Cheers to a busy week ahead!

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Produced by Julia Haslanger. Say hi: @JuliaJRH.**

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