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Tools from NICAR19

Welcome back, hacks and hackers! This Sunday marks the end of the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting conference, aka NICAR, and one of the events nearest and dearest to Hacks/Hackers' mission.

If you missed it, you can follow the hashtag or check out Sharon Machlis' list of tools, presentations and resources.

The week ahead:

Montreal is meeting in the pub
London is learning from the BBC, Reuters and Far Nearer

Worth a read:

The NYTimes is bulking up its audio division to expand well beyond its popular podcast The Daily (NiemanLab)
More and more international news outlets are relying on foundations to fill the funding gap (GIJN)
Civil, the Blockchain-anchored news startup, is launching in multiple countries (Civil)

Upcoming events:

Month	Day	City	Country	Event
March	23 - 24	Cairo	Egypt	Arab Data Journalist’s Network Conference
April	1-2	Vienna	Austria	Digital Media Europe
April	1-5	Valencia	Spain	Internet Freedom Festival
April	4-5	Gdańsk	Poland	Personal Democracy Forum
April	3-7	Perugia	Italy	International Journalism Festival
April	5-6	Kalmar	Sweden	GRAV Swedish Investigative Journalism Conference
April	5-7	Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia	World Conference on Media and Mass Communication
April	8-10	Lisbon	Portugal	IPTC Spring Meeting
April	12-13	Austin	US	International Symposium on Online Journalism
April	30-1	San Jose	US	Facebook Developer Conference
May	2-3	Addis Ababa	Ethiopia	UNESCO World Press Freedom Day
May	13-17	San Francisco	US	The Web Conference
May	16-19	Mechelen	Belgium	European Investigative Journalism Conference
May	17-19	Prague	Czech Republic	Wikimedia Hackathon
May	24-28	Washington, D.C.	US	ICA Conference
May	27-28	Bonn	Germany	DW Global Media Forum
June	1-3	Glasgow	UK	World News Media Conference
June	11-14	Tunis	Tunisia	RightsCon Tunis
June	13-15	Athens	Greece	GEN Summit
June	13-16	Houston	US	Investigative Reporters & Editors Conference
June	19-21	Cape Town	South Africa	Global Fact-Checking Summit
July	19-21	Toronto	Canada	International Conference on Social Media & Society

Other opportunities:

Deadline	Fund
Rolling	Solutions Journalism Network Freelance Fund
Rolling	Ukraine Media Development Fund
Rolling	Contest fees for submitting solutions stories
March	Princeton Center for Digital Humanities postdoctoral fellowship
April	Data Journalism Awards for free trip to Athens for GEN Summit

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