Speak at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference

Hello, hacks and hackers! The Global Investigative Journalism Conference opened their call for research paper abstracts that highlight trends, challenges, teaching methodologies, new developments and best practices in investigative and data journalism.

Abstracts should be sent to research.papers@gijn.org and are due by April 8. The conference will take place September 26-29 in Hamburg, Germany.

Happening this week:

• Johannesburg is learning about its province
• Nairobi is mobilizing journalism
• Montreal is demystifying algorithms
• Berlin is mapping for journalism

Worth a read:

• Will Koehrsen wrote about (and made data visualizations illustrating) what he learned from his commitment to writing one data science piece a week for a year (Towards Data Science)
• The Center for Cooperative Media created an "audience explorer dashboard" for small- to medium-sized newsrooms that uses Google Analytics to better categorize where your article’s clicks are coming from (Medium)
• Logic Magazine interviewed an anonymous investment bank algorithmic trader to get insider details on how the financial sector is changing with the introduction of automated trading (Logic Magazine)

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