Newsletter: Nov. 18, 2015: Hacks and hackers gathering in Munich, Lima, Los Angeles and more | Spotlight on Buenos Aires
Happy Wednesday! Watch for news soon from Hacks/Hackers about the next Connect events in New York, San Francisco and London.
The week ahead:
- Hacks/Hackers IRE in Columbia, Mo., will hear about research into the page load times of news websites.
- In Los Angeles, the group will hear about three projects during a Show and Tell with the L,A, Times Data Desk.
- In Lima, Hacks/Hackers chats with the Electronic Frontier Foundation about defending digital privacy.
- The Hacks/Hackers group in Munich holds an event where they’ll learn about three topics: Tableau, explanatory journalism platforms, and using style guides in design.
Job openings:
- A digital editor position is open at The World based in Boston. (Submitted by Steven Davy)
- Two data journalist positions at The Associated Press. (Submitted by Troy Thibodeaux)
Group spotlight: Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires
Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires has more than 5000 members on Meetup, and held its 50th event this past week. The group held its first event way back in April 2011. More recently, you might’ve heard about the awesome (and well-attended) Media Party that the group hosted in August:
You can see videos from the Media Party on the Hacks/HackersBA’s YouTube channel.
Worth a read:
- The Global Refugee Crisis: What can People in Kenya Do to Help? (A recap of Hacks/Hackers Nairobi’s latest meetup, by Serah Njambi Rono)
- The New York Times is using Paris email updates to explore a new method of interaction with readers (Nieman Lab)
- Privacy Not Included: Federal Law Lags Behind New Tech (ProPublica)
- NYT Pulls Article Blaming Encryption in Paris Attacks (Inside Source)
Call to action: Be inspired.
Last week, we asked what great data journalism you’ve seen done about the migration and refugee crisis. Here are the responses, in hopes that they can both inform and inspire you, as the best projects can:
- The Refugee Project: “The Refugee Project is an interactive map of refugee migrations around the world in each year since 1975. UN data is complemented by original histories of the major refugee crises of the last four decades, situated in their individual contexts.” via Jacqui Maher
- Two Billion Miles by Channel 4 News: “Follow in the footsteps of migrants and refugees as they face the hardships of months on the road. Choose your route and make tough decisions in this interactive video story, featuring real footage from extraordinary journeys made this year.” via Jacqui Maher
- The Migrant Files, reported by “a consortium of journalists from over 15 European countries.” It won the Global Editors Network’s Data Journalism Award in 2014 for single-topic stories. via Stephan Faris
That’s it for this week. Have an excellent rest of your day.
Produced by Julia Haslanger, @JuliaJRH
