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For the first time, Hacks/Hackers' partner organization MisinfoCon will be at the hacker conference DefCon! DefCon will take place from August 11-14 at Caesar's Forum in Las Vegas. Hotels fill up early, so if you're thinking of attending, consider booking ahead. Worth a read:

Reporters Without Borders published its 20th annual World Press Freedom Index, which assesses the state of journalism around the world. The number of countries with “good” press freedom rankings dropped from 12 to eight this year. Worth a read: * The Lenfest Institute published its 2021 Impact Report, which outlines the

Greetings, hacks and hackers! The Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism is hosting an online event to explore a metaverse installation for its investigation with HumAngle Media on the escalating farmer-herder crisis in Nigeria. The event will be on Friday, May 6, and you can register to attend for free here.

Greetings, hacks and hackers! Code for Africa just launched their new data tool PesaYetu. PesaYetu helps journalists, researchers and activists in Kenya obtain county-level datasets and visualizations. Happening this week: * Nigeria is learning advanced data analysis Worth a read: * Nieman Lab’s monthly journalism research newsletter highlighted a study that

Greetings, hacks and hackers! The AP's weekly Local News AI Readiness Workshops have started, and will continue for the next several weeks. Registration is still open for live panels, demos and how to videos on various Artificial Intelligence tools and topics. Worth a read: * Over 71 digital media

Hello, hacks and hackers! The International Journalism Festival took place in person last week in Perugia, Italy. A lot of the sessions, tweets and recaps can be found on the conference website. Worth a read: * Moksha Data Studio is a new project created to help make data visualizations for government