Registration opens for Hacks/Hackers Connect Toronto

Happy Monday, hacks and hackers. Quite a few groups are taking a break this week after a whirlwind of activity last week, and Buenos Aires just wrapped up the Media Party yesterday. Check out the Group Spotlight for some of the highlights of that conference.

In other news, registration has officially opened for Connect Toronto! Go here to reserve your spot today.

The week ahead:

• Nairobi is holding a discussion on hate speech
• Miami is holding its regular OpenHack Miami
• IRE in Missouri is holding its weekly meeting

Group spotlight:

As you probably already know, Buenos Aires held the world’s reigning Hacks/Hackers event last week: the Media Party. Thousands of media and tech enthusiasts attended, and the Buenos Aires group summited 7,000 members in its Meetup group.

Check out the #HHBA hashtag for some of the presentations and lessons shared.

Worth a read:

• The most recent Wikileaks leak included revelatory information as well as private info of vulnerable individuals like rape victims and mentall ilness patients (AP)
• The latest experiment at the Center for Investigative Reporting is an investigative series designed for Instagram (Poynter)
• In the wake of NPR ending comments on its website, Poynter published a piece on the relative value of comment sections (Poynter)

Job openings:

• Africa:
• Amplify, a paid fellowship for African storytellers and creators, is accepting applications
• North America:
• The Marshall Project, a startup covering criminal justice, is hiring a web producer
• The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is hiring an interactive news dev
• CPI is looking for a news app developer
• Reveal is offering an investigative fellowship for journalists of color
• CNN is looking for a senior producer for data and interactives
• The Online News Associtation is hiring a creative digital manager
• Europe:
• MailOnline is taking applications for digital traineeships that will place journalists in bureaus across the world

Other upcoming events:

• September:
• Sept 15-17 – Denver, USA – Online News Association (ONA)’s annual conference
• Sept 17-20 – New Orleans, USA – Society of Professional Journalists Excellence in Journalism conference
• Sept 20-22 – Jakarta, Indonesia – Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD)
• Sept. 22 – New York, USA – NYC Media Lab Annual Summit, for executives, academics and startups to convene around future of media
• (Hacks/Hackers community members can register with a 25% off discount code: HACKSHACKER)
• Sept 23-24 – Toronto, Canada – Hacks/Hackers Connect Toronto
• Sept 23-25 – Kathmandu, Nepal – Asian Investigative Journalism Conference
• Sept 28-29 – Chicago, USA – INN workshop on Tech and Product Design for News Leaders
• Sept 29-Oct 1 – Miami, USA – Digital Humanities + Data Journalism Symposium
• Sept 29-Oct 1 – Chicago, USA – Local indie online news publishers are gathering for the LION summit
• Sept 30-Oct 1 – Palo Alto, USA – Computation + Journalism Symposium
• October:
• Oct 7-9 – New York, USA – Future of Storytelling Festival
• Oct 17-17 – Vitoria, Brazil – Brazilian Conference of Citizen Media