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New Orleans becomes a hackathon hub

Greetings, hacks and hackers! It was a packed week last week for Hacks/Hackers groups, with Caracas launching its own two-day Data Party, Singapore building tools together and Philadelphia taking a peep at some awesome National Geographic projects. Plus, New Orleans‘ first hackathon generated so much interest among journos, coders

Samantha Sunne Feb 10, 2017

#JournalismJobs on every continent

Welcome to February, hacks and hackers. We had a packed global call on Wednesday where we first unveiled the new website (still in prototype form). What do you think? Also, we’ve got journalism jobs on every continent this week, and journalism events leading into May, so read on: The

Samantha Sunne Feb 2, 2017

Announcing MisinfoCon

Welcome to another Friday, hacks and hackers! We’ve got a bigger announcement than usual this week: Several Hacks/Hackers organizers, including Jenny 8. Lee, Burt Herman and Phillip Smith, have launched an anti-fake news event called MisinfoCon in Boston. It’s coming up in one short month, so put

Samantha Sunne Jan 26, 2017

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

Samantha Sunne Jan 20, 2017

Dozens of Hacks/Hackers jobs open up in the first weeks of 2017

It’s a new year, hacks and hackers, and newsrooms seem to be ushering in the new: more than two dozen job openings were posted since our last newsletter, ranging from Research Professor to Motion Graphics Editor. The Washington Post alone named eight new openings on its new rapid-response investigations

Samantha Sunne Jan 13, 2017

Hacks/Hackers enters 2017

Welcome to a new year, hacks and hackers! 2016 was a tumultuous one for many Hacks/Hackers groups around the world, and 2017 may or may not be more stable. Last week we featured NiemanLab’s predictions for the coming year; this week we look back at ProPublica’s year

Samantha Sunne Jan 6, 2017

A very newsy year comes to a close

It’s the end of 2016, hacks and hackers, a year of cultural and political trends, movements and upsets. These trends in different regions have led to a serious questioning of transparency (both for governments and journalists), the use of open data and prediction models. There are certainly enough opinions,

Samantha Sunne Dec 30, 2016

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