Propose a session for Dataharvest in Belgium

Hello, hacks and hackers! The European Investigative Journalism Conference, aka Dataharvest, is coming up this May in Mechelen, Belgium. Their call for pitches ends this Friday.

Fill out this form to submit ideas for speakers, sessions, tools or talks, and represent Hacks/Hackers!

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Happening this week:

• Birmingham is digging into city council data
• Montreal is talking algorithms

Worth a read:

• After spending a year examining the decline in public trust of democracy and the media, The Knight Commission on Trust, Media and Democracy published a report issuing recommendations on how to restore trust (Knight Foundation & Aspen Institute)
• The ICIJ launched a beta version of DataShare, an application it created to search and index all file types within a sleek interface to make it easier for journalists to analyze information (ICIJ)
• Looking to start your own newsletter? The Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center, Lenfest Institute and Yellow Brim teamed up to create a guide on how to create journalistic newsletters (NewsletterGuide.org)

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