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Hello, hacks and hackers! The Institute for Nonprofit News has announced their free, virtual INN Days conference is happening June 9th and 10th this year to talk about the future of nonprofit journalism. They also just released their first-ever impact report that shows how within 10 years, independent, nonprofit newsrooms

Welcome, hacks and hackers! There are a lot of local events next week, including workshops on Open Data Kit in Nigeria and Datasette in Taipei. You can also discuss ethical principles with H/H Nairobi and Covid misinformation with H/H Dar es Salaam. Happening this week: * Nigeria is using

Hello, hacks and hackers! This Friday, H/H LDN will be holding their first Ted Talk-style virtual  lunch meetup. It is lunchtime in the UK, but open for anyone to join, and the first topic will be local journalism. Happening this week: * London is talking about the state of local

Hello, hacks and hackers! The Washington Post is looking for reporters to contribute to a special issue surfacing local news in the US. If you missed it last week, the Solutions Journalism Network is also offering funding for local reporting in news deserts. Worth a read: * YouTube announced a plan

If you’re a freelancer in the US, Parachute, a new initiative from the Solutions Journalism Network, is offering $500 for feature stories based in any news desert around the country. Read the full guidelines for pitching here. Parachute will also help local newspapers based near news deserts get connected

They're back, hacks and hackers! H/H Dublin is meeting up this week to talk about innovating media orgs to be more privacy-conscious and reader-supported. Nairobi and Dar es Salaam are holding events as well. The week ahead: * Dublin is promoting privacy * Nairobi is telling stories with data