Posts

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

It's back, hacks and hackers! The International Symposium on Online Journalism is happening online for the second time in its 22-year history. Registration is free and open now. Also, a short correction: last week we shared H/H London's upcoming April meetup. It is actually this

Hello hacks and hackers, we are looking for interviewees. A student at the University of Southern California is writing a thesis on data literacy in the civic tech sector and would like to hear H/H members' perspectives. If you would like to be interviewed, please check out Alejandro