Seven first events of 2017: Nairobi, Joburg, Singapore and more
Happy Friday, hacks and hackers. After a winter hibernation (or summer nap, for those in the southern hemisphere), seven Hacks/Hackers groups are holding their first events of 2017, including in Asia, Europe, North America and Africa.
The week ahead:
- Nairobi is looking at tools that help indentify fake news
- Johannesburg is digitizing legal documents
- Singapore is learning to make “code art” with D3
- London is hearing about projects at the BBC and Al Jazeera
- Los Angeles is hosting a get-together with ONA LA
- New York is holding a workshop on building web notifications
- IRE in Missouri is holding its weekly open lab
Group spotlight:
Earlier this week, Rio de Janeiro invited Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker Media, to come speak to the group. This was organizer Gabriela Mafort‘s first time putting together a Hacks/Hackers event, and she said having a well-known speaker helped get the word out. “Having Nick Denton as our first speaker was a great incentive to move forward!”
Worth a read:
- Paul Bradshaw distilled more than 25 years of online journalism into 41 key moments (Online Journalism Blog)
- The Guardian published a long read on how dependence on statistics eventually led audiences to utterly disregard statistics (Guardian)
- Facebook announced the Facebook Journalism Project, which, according to the NYT, means the company is “increasingly owning up to its role as one of the world’s largest distributors of information” (NYTimes)
- TechDirt is in danger of being imploded by Silicon Valley billionaires, a la Gawker (VentureBeat)
Job openings:
- Middle East:
- Sohati, a site for medical and health news, is hiring a digital media executive
- North America:
- Chicago Tribune is looking for a lead engineer
- Columbia journalism school has two openings for data instructors
- NBC is looking for a director of web products
- NOLA Media Group has a community news fellowship
- Sacramento Business Journal has an opening for lead designer
- Denver Post is hiring an online producer
- Europe:
- Financial News in London is looking for a tech correspondent
- BBC is looking for a principal software engineer
Upcoming events:
- January:
- 20-21 – Anaheim, USA – A3E Future of Audio summit
- 21 – Berlin, Germany – “Hashtag, High Tech, Hackmac” data journalism day
- 27-28 – Odense, Denmark – NODA17, the Nordic Data Journalism Conference
- 31-1 – London, UK – #newsHACK, the BBC’s transcription hackathon
- February:
- 6 – Paris, France – News Impact Summit
- 8-9 – London, UK – newsrewired
- March:
- 2-5 – Jacksonville, USA – National Institute of Computer-Assisted Reporting (NICAR) conference
- 31-1 – Tonsberg, Norway – SKUP conference for investigative reporters and editors in Norway
